{"article":{"id":106972,"heading":"Cuban Right-Wing Terrorist Group F-4 Commandos Training Venezuelan Paramilitaries in Miami","author":"Cort Greene-Socialist Appeal","created":"2004-04-04 19:09:59","modified":"2013-11-11 00:29:16","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:29:16","article":"<br>  &nbsp;&nbsp;Cuban Right-Wing Terrorist Group\"F-4 Commandos'Training Venezuelan Paramilitaries in Miami Area <br> Socialist Appeal- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistappeal.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.socialistappeal.org<\/a> -------------------------------------------- <br> Cuban Right-Wing Terrorist Group\"F-4 Commandos\" Training Venezuelan  <br> Paramilitaries in the Miami Area  <br> *By Cort Greene*  <br> George Bush, who declared a \"War against Terrorism\", and has needlessly  <br> taken the world to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, has conveniently  <br> forgotten to look in his brother's own backyard in fighting it. Recently  <br> in Jeb Bush's Florida, Cuban paramilitary leader Rodolfo Frometa of the  <br> right-wing terrorist group\"F-4 Commandos\" openly admitted helping and  <br> training Venezuela paramilitaries associated with Luis Garcia Morales, a  <br> former National Guard captain who fled Venezuela after fomenting a  <br> military coup against the government of President Chavez. The Miami area  <br> has been a hotbed for terrorist groups for decades - the largest CIA  <br> center outside the Washington D.C. area is at the University of Miami.  <br> Many members of the Death Squads from the Wars in Central and South  <br> America of the 60s,70s and 80s now reside in Miami. Also, two former  <br> members of the Venezuelan National Guard, wanted for terrorist attacks  <br> on the Spanish embassy in Caracas are currently being held at the Krome  <br> Detention Center - but efforts to extradite them for prosecution in  <br> Venezuela and \/ or Spain are being stalled by the US government. It's  <br> clear that for the US imperialists, \"terrorists\" aren't so bad when  <br> they're pro-US.  <br> At last weekend's Anti-Chavez rally in Miami, where less than 200  <br> demonstrators attended, leaflets were handed out with a picture of  <br> Frometa and Morales dressed in military clothing and brandishing guns,  <br> along with a statement calling on Venezuelans to rise in insurrection  <br> and encouraging them to wage a war against President Chavez if the  <br> opposition fails to oust him by a recall referendum. Rodolfo Frometa,  <br> who is well-known as a terrorist to the United States government, having  <br> been imprisoned for 3 years for illegal weapons purchases, said: \"Our  <br> camps are open to any Venezuelan who understands that there can be no  <br> dealings with Communists\". In a speech at the rally, fugitive CTV boss  <br> Carlos Ortega called for the assassination of Chavez and subversion  <br> against the Venezuelan government.  <br> Since both Republican George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry are vying  <br> for the Cuban right-wing community support in the upcoming election for  <br> President, they are trying to out-do one another to garner their votes.  <br> Bush has turned a blind eye to the homegrown terrorism of the \"F-4  <br> Commandos\" in Miami, and covertly funds groups trying to undermine the  <br> Bolivarian Revolutionary process in Venezuela. The Democrats' Jimmy  <br> Carter demands that the recall referendum process continue even if fraud  <br> has been committed; and John Kerry who also concurred with Carter, has  <br> unscrupulously attacked President Chavez; calling him a dictator,  <br> ranting about how President Chavez will turn Venezuela into a  <br> Cuban-style government and comparing him to Cuba's Fidel Castro. These  <br> are nothing but red scare tactics and code words designed to whip up  <br> mass support for a counter-revolution both here and abroad.  <br> Need we remind John Kerry and his supporters that at the very least  <br> President Chavez has been democratically elected; the Bolivarian  <br> Revolution has been affirmed by the people of Venezuela on 7 different  <br> occasions; and that he has mass support for himself and his social  <br> programs. That's more than can be said of George Bush, whose election is  <br> still in question; has less popular support than Chavez; has broken  <br> treaty after treaty; fought illegal predatory wars; turned back 70 years  <br> of progressive legislation for workers and the poor; and whose economic  <br> policies have only been to the benefit of the capitalist class, bringing  <br> disaster and misery for everyone else.  <br> Those who say the upcoming US Presidential elections are nothing but a  <br> choice between Cancer and the Plague, and that neither party offers a  <br> way out of the worldwide economic crisis or a meaningful shift in policy  <br> for the masses of Venezuela or anywhere else are indeed right.  <br> It's  <br> crystal clear that the so-called \"war on terror\" is really a war on  <br> working people at home and abroad. Now more than ever, solidarity action  <br> with the Bolivarian Revolution and a strengthening of the process toward  <br> socialism is necessary to safeguard it.  <br> *  <br> No to US intervention in Venezuela!  <br> *  <br> Defend the Venezuelan revolution!  <br> *  <br> Forward to Socialism!  <br> *Contact us for more information on the Hands Off Venezuela campaign at  <br> <a href=\"mailto:venezuela@socialistappeal.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">venezuela@socialistappeal.org<\/a> <mailto: href=\"mailto:venezuela@socialistappeal.org\">venezuela@socialistappeal.org&gt;*  <br>  <\/mailto:>\n","contact":"venezuela@socialistappeal.org","link":"www.socialistappeal.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Hands Off Venezuela Campaign","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/04\/106972.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}