Miami: The birth-place of U.S. sponsored right-wing terrorism

Every time a new piece of evidence is uncovered about the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, it points back to Miami.
Christian Emmanuel Sanon has now been identified as playing a key role in a plot to assume the presidency of the island country, while using a Miami-based security firm as hired assassins. Even more significant is the increasing number of ties to the U.S. government.

The associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of safety concerns, said Sanon told him he was approached by people claiming to represent the U.S. State and Justice departments who wanted to install him as president.
..."I guarantee you that," the associate said. "This was supposed to be a mission to save Haiti from hell, with support from the U.S. government."

That seemed like an unlikely claim, until it turned out that one of the men arrested in connection to the assassination by Haitian authorities previously worked as an informant for the DEA. That's not all.

Other suspects also had US ties, including working as informants for the FBI, the people briefed on the matter said. The FBI said in response to CNN's reporting that it doesn't comment on informants, except to say that it uses "lawful sources to collect intelligence" as part of its investigations.

In fact, it's looking more and more likely that Sanon was just a gullible fall-guy.

Does this sound a little familiar? It should.
Let's go back one year, and just a few miles down the Florida freeway to the headquarters of another mercenary group, Silvercorp USA.

On Monday, it was Venezuela that captured two former U.S. special forces soldiers, Luke Denman and Airan Berry, after what authorities described as their “botched beach landing in the fishing village of Chuao.” A video was released of Denman telling his interrogators that he had been tasked with capturing the Venezuelan president. Meanwhile, Florida-based ex-Green Beret Jordan Goudreau, head of the private security firm Silvercorp USA, appeared in a video alongside a former Venezuelan military officer in combat fatigues, in which he confirmed that Denman and Berry were working for him. (Press reports have since revealed that Goudreau had meetings with former longtime Trump bodyguard Keith Schiller, had signed a multimillion-dollar contract with the U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition, and also claims to have been in contact with the office of Vice President Mike Pence.)

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former director of the CIA, spoke at a press conference where he issued his very carefully worded denial: “There was no U.S. government direct involvement in this.” He also couldn’t help but brag to reporters about how it “would have gone differently” if the United States had been behind it. (Memo to Pompeo: Google “Bay of Pigs.”)

Goudreau had previously met two Trump administration officials on the 12th fairway of the Red Course of Trump Doral to discuss the attempted coup.
Silvercorp then signed a contract with Juan Guaidó to perform the coup, using money that the Trump Administration stole from the Venezuelan government which we then gave to Juan Guaidó.
Coincidentally, the security firm involved in assassinating the President of Haiti is run by a Venezuelan exile.

Is this starting to sound familiar? Just a few months before the botched Venezuelan coup attempt, plans were being made for mercenaries in Miami to attempt a second coup in Bolivia. Fortunately, those plans never got off the ground.

None of this is new. Miami has long been associated with right-wing terrorism that our government has turned a blind-eye to.

Though it’s largely forgotten today, some Cuban-American exile groups in the mid-1970s were responsible for one of the most impactful waves of terror in U.S. history. Authorities in that period tied them to 113 bombings on U.S. soil, killing around a dozen people. In 1974, Cuban exiles accounted for 45 percent of all terrorist bombings on the planet, according to José Luis Méndez’s Los Años del Terror. While some attacks were intended to attract public attention more than cause physical harm, that wasn’t always the case. The most infamous example came in September 1976, when the New Jersey-based Cuban Nationalist Movement (CNM) worked with the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship of Chile to car bomb former diplomat and activist Orlando Letelier in Washington. Both Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt, were killed.

You would think that the U.S. government might be a bit more concerned with the most active terrorist group in the world operating in the United States. But nope. Some terrorists are good guys, even when they are blowing up people in our country.
Even when they are just a bunch of gangsters.

When pressed, the CNM and other groups used extortion to raise funds. “Businessmen established a network which would collect money in the form of ‘taxes’ from all segments of the Cuban community,” an FBI report on Cuban-linked violence said at the time. The bureau suggested that such extortion netted $100,000 per year. One Union City shop owner explained the process: “Los nacionalistas come and demand money. If (we don’t) give, they smash in the window. This window was smashed three times,” he said, pointing to his storefront. Were people scared? “Yes.”

But the ultimate example, the crème de la crème, is Cubana de Aviación Flight 455.
In 1976, CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles blew up this civilian airliner, killing all 73 onboard. Including all 24 members of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team; many were teenagers.
Among those who committed this heinous crime were Orlando Bosch, who the local FBI considered "Miami's number one terrorist", and Luis Posada Carriles.
Carriles was bombing nightclubs and killing tourists in Cuba as late as 1997. He entered the U.S. illegally, but we refused to deport him, or even keep him in jail.

Posada died in May 2018 in Florida, where hardline elements of the anti-Castro exile community in Miami still regarded him as "a heroic figure". Reporter Ann Louise Bardach called him "Fidel Castro's most persistent would-be assassin, while Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archive referred to him as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history" and the "godfather of Cuban exile violence."

Literally everything can be forgiven if you oppose socialism. That includes terrorism, something our government has been sponsoring for generations.

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But he is not alone. The Dems want in on the action.

And then there is Bernie.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-san...

Bernie Sanders has joined top Democrats and Republicans in voicing his support for Cubans protesting against their government – while also criticising decades of US policy towards the island nation.

The self-described socialist senator tweeted on Monday that “all people have the right to protest and to live in a democratic society,” calling on the government to “respect opposition rights and refrain from violence”.

But he also told the Biden administration: “It’s also long past time to end the unilateral US embargo on Cuba, which has only hurt, not helped, the Cuban people.”

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@humphrey is brutalizing the protestors.
Oh wait. that's what happened in the U.S.

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Because she's as dumb as a rock

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This is one of the worse things I’ve read recently. That the government knows about them in the first place, but did nothing to them even after they killed Americans just enforces the fact that none of our lives even matter an iota to the PTB. And remember operation northwood when they planned on flying planes into buildings, killing lots of others and blaming it on Cuba just so corporations can get in the country to steal their resources.

I read this just after reading about the drone murders. That’s on top of the number of people who are struggling mightily just to stay above water and congress keeps throwing them an anchor. Gaia will be glad to see the last of us after we’ve destroyed most life here. How many species have gone extinct in just the last few decades? How many now? Just sickening beyond words.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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Click on the 2nd one that shows how cops have blocked cars so protesters can show solidarity with Cuba. When you have cops helping to shutdown a major freeway you know they were ordered to let it happen. The hell with Americans stuck in the mess. Didn’t DeSatan pass a bill allowing people to plow over protesters if they are blocking the road? Why yes he did. Or some other airhead governors did. Lots of calls to invade Cuba and free people from tyranny…puke. Hello? Iraq. Libya. Syria and countless other countries have been destroyed by us spreading freedoms and bull plucky. Blehh!

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Lots of people are making lots of noise like this. Pompous Pompeo who should be at The Hague is tweeting nonsense about invading Cuba. Congress just approved millions to meddle there. Fck congress!

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@snoopydawg
The only thing that matters is who can make a buck.

If we do end up invading Cuba (again), it'll be a lot like our invasion of Iraq. In that we'll put corrupt exiles in charge to rule over a people that don't know the exiles, and despise them.
And eventually people will start shooting those exiles.

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