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The Straight Story

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Fri Jul 12, 2013, 04:13 PM Jul 2013

Asylum, a few granted by the US:

LATIN AMERICA / U.S. Gives Asylum To Alleged Hijacker
Chronicle News Services
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, April 20, 1995

1995-04-20 04:00:00 PDT Miami -- A man accused by the Cuban government of hijacking a government boat and killing a naval officer has been granted political asylum in the United States.

Leonel Macias Gonzalez, 19, was released from a detention center Monday after an Immigration and Naturalization Service appeals board ruled in his favor. Macias had been granted political asylum in February, but the government appealed.

Witnesses have said Macias wrested control of a Cuban government boat August 8, overpowering a lieutenant and two others. Shots were fired, and two men were seen swimming to shore.

Macias then picked up 25 friends and fled. They were later rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. After the hijacking, Cuba accused the United States of covering up the alleged slaying of Lieutenant Roberto Aguilar Reyes by Macias.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/LATIN-AMERICA-U-S-Gives-Asylum-To-Alleged-3035943.php


US gives asylum to dozens of terrorists and fugitives

by Jean-Guy Allard
Source: Granma, 23 August 2011.

- Alejandro Melgar, leader of the Santa Cruz conspiracy, Bolivian businessman.

- Angel de Fana Serrano, participated in 1997, in the Isla Margarita, in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro during the Ibero-American Summit. An associate of Luis Posada Carriles, De Fana also conspired to assassinate President Chavez.

- Armando Valladares, an accomplice in the assassination attempt of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and several terrorist acts, was imprisoned in Cuba for planting bombs in shops and resumed his work with the CIA since his departure from the island.

- Carlos Alberto Montaner, lived for several decades on his performances against Cuba. A fugitive from Cuban justice for planting bombs in shops and cinemas in 1960. He was a member of the terrorist network of Orlando Bosch. He owns homes in the U.S. and Spain.

- Gaspar Jiménez, murderer of Cuban diplomat Dartagnan Díaz Díaz, an accomplice of Luis Posada Carriles and sentenced in Panama for terrorism. Based in Miami with FBI protection.

- Guillermo Novo Sampol, a terrorist, an accomplice in the assassination of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier, a torturer under Operation Condor, the murderer of two Cuban diplomats in Argentina, an accomplice of Luis Posada Carriles for terrorism and sentenced in Panama. Based in Miami.

More in the list here (and you can google the names in the list for more info):
http://realcuba.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/us-gives-asylum-to-dozens-of-terrorists-and-fugitives/

Assange: Will the US Remember
It Granted Asylum to Carriles
at Its Sierra Leone Embassy?


By Jean Guy Allard

The U.S. is the preferred land of asylum for all the known and unknown thugs who have ever done the bidding of the U.S. empire during its never-ending hegemonic expansion.

Translated By Lisa Steward

21 August 2012

Edited by Katya Abazajian



Spain - Kaos en La Red - Original Article (Spanish)

Will the people from the U.S. remember that their country granted asylum to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles at the U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Sierra Leone while the old “Anti-Castro” murderer was busy trafficking arms to said African nation?

After sheepishly pursuing him on behalf of the U.S., the U.K. keeps Julian Assange sequestered in London, meanwhile on North American soil there are hundreds of political thugs from the entire world — most particularly from Latin America — who obtain asylum from the State Department, which in turn keeps quiet as to their presence, whereabouts and human rights violations.

The case of Posada in Sierra Leone correctly portrays Washington’s double standard when it comes to covering up and protecting its minions.

When Posada was operating from El Salvador, where he had established a terrorist base from which he carried out a series of attacks in Havana, he took a trip to Africa during which he was surprised by the military takeover on May 25, 1997.

http://watchingamerica.com/News/172896/assange-will-the-us-remember-that-it-granted-asylum-to-luis-posada-carriles-at-their-sierra-leone-embassy/

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Asylum, a few granted by the US: (Original Post) The Straight Story Jul 2013 OP
Yes, but the U.S. is exceptional... polichick Jul 2013 #1
Exceptional what is yet to be determined. hobbit709 Jul 2013 #2
and war criminals Solly Mack Jul 2013 #3
Nice...bookmarked that :) (nt) The Straight Story Jul 2013 #6
I will never forget the bombing of that Cubana aircraft malaise Jul 2013 #4
k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Jul 2013 #5

malaise

(269,172 posts)
4. I will never forget the bombing of that Cubana aircraft
Fri Jul 12, 2013, 04:33 PM
Jul 2013

in 1976. One of my friends was on her way to study medicine in Havana. Scores of Caribbean children were killed and both those murderers were granted asylum. That was fucking terrorism.

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