‘Let the Yankees invade, it’s all the same to me’

MARTA BEATRIZ ROQUE, STAR OF THE SO-CALLED DISSIDENCE​

‘Let the Yankees invade, it’s all
the same to me’

BY Jean-Guy Allard

"If it takes a Yankee invasion to topple the Cuban government, that’s fine with me," declared Marta Beatriz Roque, the organizer of the so-called "Assembly to Promote the Civil Society" that took place in Havana last May, in a recorded conversation screened Wednesday, December 21, on the Cuban Television "Roundtable."



The program also showed footage of the supposed dissident making luxurious purchases in Havana stores.

"Nobody from Pinar del Rio’s going to Miami," Roque informed an unknown interlocutor, emphasizing that no one from that western province had agreed to attend the event that she was preparing and thus that nobody would receive a U.S. visa to emigrate. "The Americans said not one visa," she added, thus confirming that those visas are used as instruments of bribery to stimulate a false dissidence against the Cuban government.

The event organized by Roque with logistical and financial support from the U.S. Interests Section (USIS) in Havana and mercenary organizations in Miami, and covered by certain international press agencies, "brought together more foreign reporters and diplomats than delegates," ironically commented Rogelio Polanco, editor of the daily Juventud Rebelde, presenting the subject.

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY TO CONSPIRE AND SUBVERT

"The goose that lays the golden egg," the journalist revealed, is currently convening the "first congress of independent librarians" for which the first meetings have already begun. "And since the best convention center available is the U.S. Interest Section and the residences of U.S. officials," that was where the initial "preparatory meeting" took place on December 15 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

It is a matter of the "use of diplomatic immunity to conspire and subvert the internal order of the country" in violation of international conventions, stated Lázaro Barredo, editor of Granma daily.

"Whoever opposes this project will not receive any more U.S. funding," Roque warned.

Television viewers were also given the opportunity to observe the unabashed dissident making huge food purchases in Havana stores, paying with 50CUC bills (Cuban convertible pesos). They also saw several refrigerators that she personally acquired for her mercenary assembly being loaded onto a truck.

Previously, eloquent footage was presented on the event financed by Miami groups and subsidized by USAID, in which James Cason, then head of the USIS, was present, accompanied by various aides and several Czech diplomats.

The most revealing moment of the event was without any doubt the video message from George W. Bush presented via laptop. The electronic address from the chief of the White House was received by shouts of "!Viva Bush!" by various participants in favor of annexation.

Roque’s assembly received $70,141 from Cuban-American organizations, stated Reinaldo Taladrid, a Cuban television journalist, adding that the Cuban Liberty Council, "the CANF clone that includes Alberto Hernández, Diego Suárez, Martín Pérez, Ninoska..." was directly "linked to the organization and implementation of acts of terrorism, not simply funding like some people say."


He also mentioned a group that calls itself "In memory of Rafael Díaz-Balart" in tribute to one of the most loyal lieutenants of dictator Fulgencio Batista and whose sons are currently congressmen in the United States.

TERRORISTS Valladares and Montaner with VACLAV HAVEL

At another point of the program, Lázaro Barredo presented materials offered by the Interests Section, among them a book by the "famous paralytic poet" Armando Valladares and a video of Carlos Alberto Montaner.

"I’m surprised that the United States is still trying to incorporate them, to see whether they can achieve some influence within these mercenary sectors in Cuba, for one reason: 45 years ago, the two were caught planting gelatinous dynamite in shopping centers, in public places and which injured and harmed many people," he commented.

"Montaner is still a fugitive from Cuban justice," he said upon recalling that crimes of terrorism have no statute of limitation. "He has a trial for terrorism still pending in our country."

Montaner’s links with Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the CIA are renowned, Barredo noted. He recalled a famous letter written by Montaner when the Soviet Union disappeared, in which he revealed CIA instructions regarding the creation of various parties and their U.S. funding.

Regarding Valladares’ book, some people believe that it was written by Montaner himself, although the most accepted version is that it was written by César Leante, a man "who always wore his militant beret and was a terrible extremist."

Also appearing among the authors promoted by the USIS are Vaclav Havel, "the great role model of all these guys," and Mario Vargas Llosa, "an outstanding writer but a mediocre politician." In his country of Peru, "they haven’t even nominated him as a town councilor," he observed humorously.

"neither librarians nor independents"

Regarding the so-called independent libraries, Eliades Acosta, director of the José Martí National Library, exposed this "crude campaign that is above all designed to project a virtual image to the world of the existence of an imaginary network of independent libraries that are neither libraries nor independent."

This campaign is financed by the U.S. government, "the same one that burned the national library in Iraq, that has denied visas to Cuban libraries to attend events in the United States, and the one which, because of the blockade, does not allow access to U.S. databases or the purchase of books from that country." In order to buy works by U.S. authors, Cuban libraries have to go to Canada or Mexico, he noted.

At the end of the program, journalist Arleen Rodríguez demonstrated, with another video, the involvement of another shameless dissident, Osvaldo Payá, in a Mississippi University consortium project financed by the U.S. government. The footage showed Payá leaving installations where paid courses were offered to counterrevolutionaries.

Regarding the Women in White — or Green, given their inclination toward funding from Florida— the journalist recalled Hebe de Bonafini’s response to a comment made by U.S. official Roger Noriega who compared them to the Madres del Plaza de Mayo on account of their use of white headscarves.

"Let me tell you that the Plaza de Mayo is in Argentina and nowhere else. Our white headscarf symbolizes life while these women represent death. We are in total disagreement with them. These women are defending U.S. terrorism. They are defending the Number one terrorist country in the world, which has the most blood on its hands, which launches the most bombs, invades the most countries, that imposes the heaviest economic sanctions on the rest. We are talking about a nation that is responsible for the crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," affirmed the president of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo Association.


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