- Cuban television tonight broadcast remarkable segments
of a one hour program on Miami TV Channel 41 in which known paramilitaries
from the Florida based Comandos F4 organization openly spoke of their preparation
for an armed attack against Cuba.
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- In moments of near-hysteria, the leader of Comandos F4,
Rodolfo Frometa, said that his organization has people inside and outside
Cuba ready to carry out armed acts against the Cuban government. Dressed
in fatigues, as were the others of his organization present in the studio,
Frometa said that his group trained with AK47 semi-automatic weapons--arms,
he said, that were legally obtained in the United States although he admitted
he had no paperwork to prove it.
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- The program was hosted by Oscar Asa, the nephew of former
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Batista was responsible for the murder
of thousands of Cubans until he was forced out by revolutionary forces
in 1959. Asa seemed to enjoy posing provocative questions relating to assassination
in what critics on Cuba's nightly televised Round Table classed as openly
violating US federal law.
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- It is illegal in the US to defend terrorist actions on
TV. The promotion of the assassination of another nation's leader is also
illegal under the US Neutrality Act. Nonetheless, commented round table
participants, these men were able to openly sit in a studio dressed for
war and happily discuss the different armaments they were using to train
paramilitaries to attack Cuba, and get away with it. There couldn't be
better proof of the US government's complicity with such would-be terrorists.
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- Adding weight to recent accusations of Venezuela's President
Hugo Chavez, former Venezuelan army captain Eduardo Garcia was also present
in full uniform to discuss the help Comandos F4 were giving in his efforts
to bring down Chavez by force. Chavez has frequently charged that Miami
Cuban-American terrorist organizations are involved with Venezuelans seeking
to assassinate him.
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- The host of the Round Table program, Randy Alonso, simply
asked viewers to form their own conclusions after seeing such an astonishing
program, commenting that the message that Frometa gave was clear: his paramilitary
organization was ready and trained -- it just needed the money. And, said
Alonso, the money is there -- $36 million recently earmarked by the US
government to support such groups.
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