thescarface1989
4th August 2007, 08:21
Look at all the Terrorist attacks from The Opposition to Fidel Castro!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_Fidel_Castro
Attacks in the United States
Below is a non-comprehensive list of terrorist attacks credited to Cuban oppositional groups in the United States. Most attacks are against government agencies or businesses that have advocated greater cooperation with the Cuban government. Business targets are generally those that have offered to arrange travel between the two countries. International targets such as British or Polish ships are targeted whilst carrying freight to Cuba.
* 1967 April 3: New York City. The Cuban Mission to the United Nations is bombed; U.N. acting chief suffers non-fatal burns in the bombing.[8]
* 1967 October 16: New York City. Explosions across from the Cuban, Yugoslav, and Finnish missions to the United Nations.[8]
* 1968 January 25 : Miami. Package en route to Cuba explodes.[8]
* 1968 April 18 : New York City. The Mexican mission to the U.S. is bombed.[8]
* 1968 April 18 : Miami. The Mexican consul general's residence is damaged by a bomb.[8]
* 1968 June 21 : New York City. Spanish Nationalist Tourist office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 4 : New York City. The Canadian consulate and the tourist office are bombed. The Australian National Tourist Office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 7 : New York City. The Japanese National Tourist Office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 9 : New York City. The Yugoslav and Cuban missions to the United States are bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 14 : Chicago. The Mexican National Tourist Office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 16 : New Jersey. A bomb is found and removed from the Mexican consulate by police.[8]
* 1968 July 19 : Los Angeles. An Air France ticket office is damaged by a bomb. A Mexican National Tourist Office is bombed. A Shell Oil building is bombed. A Japan Air Lines office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 30 : Los Angeles. The British consulate is bombed.[8]
* 1968 August 3 : New York City. The Bank of Tokyo Trust Company is bombed.[8]
* 1968 August 5 : Los Angeles. The British consulate is bombed for a second time.[8]
* 1968 August 8 : Miami. An underwater explosion damages a British vessel near Miami.[8]
* 1968 August 17 : Miami. A Mexican airline office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 September 16 : Miami. Terrorist fire on a Polish vessel with rifiles.[8]
* 1972 March: A group calling themselves "the Secret Cuban Government" bombs a theater in New York and two drug stores in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[8]
* 1972 December : A travel agency in Queens, New York is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile group.[8]
* 1972 December 11 : New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed.[8]
* 1973 March 28: The Center for the Cuban Studies is bombed.[8]
* 1973 July 24: New York City. The Martin Luther King, Jr., Labor Center is bombed during exhibition of pro-Fidel Castro material.[8]
* 1973 December: A business office in the New York City area is bombed.[8]
* 1973 December 30: Miami. A British freighter is bombed;[8]
1974 November 9 : Washington, D.C. Organization of American States building bombed.[8]
* 1975 February 1: New York City. The Venezuelan Consulate is bombed.[8]
* 1975 February 6: Los Angeles. Unidos, a socialist bookstore run by the October League, is bombed;[8]
* 1975 February 26: Los Angeles. KCET, a radio station, is bombed. Cuban exile group suspected because the station had just announced the showing of a Cuban film, "Lucia."[8]
* 1975 March 27: Los Angeles. Panama Government Tourist Bureau and Costa Rican Consulate are damaged slightly by separate bomb blast. Panama and Costa Rica had supported Cuba's readmission to the Organization of American States.[8]
* 1975 April 3: Los Angeles. An attempted bombing of the Communist Party office misfires;[8]
* 1975 April 13: Los Angeles. A bomb is dropped through the roof of the Unidos book store.[8]
* 1975 May 2: Santa Monica. A Socialist Workers Party bookstore is bombed.[8]
* 1975 May 7: Los Angeles. The leftist-oriented Midnight Special Bookstore is bombed.[8]
* 1975 July 15: Los Angeles. The Mexican consulate is bombed; four people are injured; $35,000 damage is done; it is suspected that the bombing was a joint action of the Hungarian Peace and Freedom Fighters, the Cuban Action Commandos, and the Nazi Group.[8]
* 1975 July 18: Washington, D.C. A bomb placed outside the Costa Rican embassy does not completely detonate.[8]
* 1975 October 6: Miami. The Dominican Republic consulate is bombed.[8]
* 1975 October 10: Ft. Lauderdale. The Broward County courthouse is bombed.[8]
* 1975 October 17: Miami. A bomb explodes in a luggage locker at Miami International Airport.[8]
* 1975 October 31: Miami. Bombing-assassination of Rolando Masferrer. The bomb is triggered by the car ignition[8]
* 1975 November 27: Miami. A time bomb in the restroom of a Bahamas Airlines jet is set to go off as passengers are loading for Nassau; a call indicates the bombing is anti-Castro and that a group called Cuban Power ‘76 is responsible.[8]
* 1975 December 3: Miami. Identical bombs explode on the eve of a visit by William D. Rogers, U.S. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, at the Social Security building, the Florida State Employment Service office, two Post Office buildings, and the FBI headquarters building.[8]
* 1975 December 4: Miami. The Miami police department and Metropolitan Justice building are bombed.
Terrorist Groups
All groups recognised by the CIA's International terrorism report as conducting paramilitary or terrorist acts against Cuba in order to forge political change.
* Abdala
* Alpha 66 - A paramilitary group formed in 1961. Have attempted several unauthorized military campaigns against Cuba and engaged in terrorist activities on international targets in order to raise the profile of their oppositional cause. [2].
* Anti-Castro Commando
* Anti-Communist Commandos
* Condor
* Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU - includes Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles)
* Cuba Action
* Cuba Action Commandos
* Cuban Anti-Communist League
* Cuban C-4
* Movement Cuban Liberation Front
* Cuban National Liberation Front (FLNC)
* Cuban Power (el Poder Cubano)
* Cuban Power
* Cuban Representation in Exile
* Cuban Revolutionary Directorate
* Cuban Revolutionary Organization
* Cuban Youth Group International
* Secret Revolutionary United Cells
* JCN (expansion unknown)
* Latin American Anti-Communist Army
* Movement of Cuban Justice Movement of the Seventh (M-7)
* National Integration Front (FIN; Cuban Nationalist Front)
* Omega 7
* Pedro Luis Boitel
* Command Pedro Ruiz Botero
* Commandos Pragmatistas
* Scorpion (el Alacran)
* Second Front of Escambray
* Secret Anti-Castro Cuban Army
* Secret Cuban Government
* Secret Hand Organization
* Secret Organization Zero
* Young Cubans
* Youths of the Star
[edit] Other groups
* Brothers to the Rescue - A group of Cuban-American activists whose primary objective is to aid Cuban refugees and immigration seekers. The group have also attempted to distribute oppositional literature in Cuba via illegal airdrops over Cuban territory.
* Cuban American National Foundation - Lobbying group for Cuban-Americans in the United States. Also co-ordinates many of the oppositional strategies undertaken by smaller Cuban-American groups and individuals.[3].
* International Committee for Democracy in Cuba Group headed by former Czech president Vaclav Havel aimed to coordinate the approach of European and western hemisphere countries towards Castro’s government. [4]
* Cuban Libertarian Movement - a loose network of collectives and individuals comprising the Cuban anarchist movement, which is anti-capitalist, anti-Castro, and seeks change along libertarian socialist/libertarian communist or similar lines.
[edit] Historical events
* War Against the Bandits (1959 - 1965) - Since 1959, a few groups of Cubans that had fought side by side with Castro, began to take arms against the government, particularly in the Escambray Mountains region of Cuba. The Cuban government labeled them as bandits. By July 26, 1965 Fidel Castro claimed to have abolished "all the Bandits in Cuba".
* Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961) - The Brigade 2506, a military force of about 1,300 Cuban expatriates, with support of the US government, invaded the Giron beaches ("Ataque a La Playa Girón"). This is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion. This attempt to depose the Revolutionary Government ended in failure. After the Brigade had already engaged in battle, John F. Kennedy cancelled the order for air support, and despite fighting against superior numbers for three days, they surrendered only after their ammo was spent. Thousands of prisoners were taken by the Cuban government.
* The Cuban Project (1961 - 1962) - US President John F. Kennedy initiated a CIA operation on November 30, 1961 to "help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime" aiming "for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962". The covert plan was intended to fuel anti-Castro sentiments provoking an overthrow of the government or assassination attempts on Castro. The Cuban Project played a significant role in the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The operation was suspended on October 30, 1962, but three six-man sabotage teams had already been deployed to Cuba, and on November 8, 1962, one six-man CIA team blew up a Cuban industrial facility without permission.
* Bombing of Cubana Flight 455. On October 6, 1976 two time bombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all 73 people on board in what was then the most deadly terrorist attack in the Western hemisphere. Evidence implicated several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police DISIP.
* Ibero-American Summit Dissidents (1999) - About a dozen opposition groups claiming peaceful opposition to Castro's one-party state urged Ibero-American leaders to back their cause. 40 dissidents planning the gathering were arrested in Havana before the Ibero-American Summit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_Fidel_Castro
Attacks in the United States
Below is a non-comprehensive list of terrorist attacks credited to Cuban oppositional groups in the United States. Most attacks are against government agencies or businesses that have advocated greater cooperation with the Cuban government. Business targets are generally those that have offered to arrange travel between the two countries. International targets such as British or Polish ships are targeted whilst carrying freight to Cuba.
* 1967 April 3: New York City. The Cuban Mission to the United Nations is bombed; U.N. acting chief suffers non-fatal burns in the bombing.[8]
* 1967 October 16: New York City. Explosions across from the Cuban, Yugoslav, and Finnish missions to the United Nations.[8]
* 1968 January 25 : Miami. Package en route to Cuba explodes.[8]
* 1968 April 18 : New York City. The Mexican mission to the U.S. is bombed.[8]
* 1968 April 18 : Miami. The Mexican consul general's residence is damaged by a bomb.[8]
* 1968 June 21 : New York City. Spanish Nationalist Tourist office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 4 : New York City. The Canadian consulate and the tourist office are bombed. The Australian National Tourist Office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 7 : New York City. The Japanese National Tourist Office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 9 : New York City. The Yugoslav and Cuban missions to the United States are bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 14 : Chicago. The Mexican National Tourist Office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 16 : New Jersey. A bomb is found and removed from the Mexican consulate by police.[8]
* 1968 July 19 : Los Angeles. An Air France ticket office is damaged by a bomb. A Mexican National Tourist Office is bombed. A Shell Oil building is bombed. A Japan Air Lines office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 July 30 : Los Angeles. The British consulate is bombed.[8]
* 1968 August 3 : New York City. The Bank of Tokyo Trust Company is bombed.[8]
* 1968 August 5 : Los Angeles. The British consulate is bombed for a second time.[8]
* 1968 August 8 : Miami. An underwater explosion damages a British vessel near Miami.[8]
* 1968 August 17 : Miami. A Mexican airline office is bombed.[8]
* 1968 September 16 : Miami. Terrorist fire on a Polish vessel with rifiles.[8]
* 1972 March: A group calling themselves "the Secret Cuban Government" bombs a theater in New York and two drug stores in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[8]
* 1972 December : A travel agency in Queens, New York is bombed; the incident is attributed to FIN, a Cuban exile group.[8]
* 1972 December 11 : New York City. The VA-Cuba Forwarding Company is bombed.[8]
* 1973 March 28: The Center for the Cuban Studies is bombed.[8]
* 1973 July 24: New York City. The Martin Luther King, Jr., Labor Center is bombed during exhibition of pro-Fidel Castro material.[8]
* 1973 December: A business office in the New York City area is bombed.[8]
* 1973 December 30: Miami. A British freighter is bombed;[8]
1974 November 9 : Washington, D.C. Organization of American States building bombed.[8]
* 1975 February 1: New York City. The Venezuelan Consulate is bombed.[8]
* 1975 February 6: Los Angeles. Unidos, a socialist bookstore run by the October League, is bombed;[8]
* 1975 February 26: Los Angeles. KCET, a radio station, is bombed. Cuban exile group suspected because the station had just announced the showing of a Cuban film, "Lucia."[8]
* 1975 March 27: Los Angeles. Panama Government Tourist Bureau and Costa Rican Consulate are damaged slightly by separate bomb blast. Panama and Costa Rica had supported Cuba's readmission to the Organization of American States.[8]
* 1975 April 3: Los Angeles. An attempted bombing of the Communist Party office misfires;[8]
* 1975 April 13: Los Angeles. A bomb is dropped through the roof of the Unidos book store.[8]
* 1975 May 2: Santa Monica. A Socialist Workers Party bookstore is bombed.[8]
* 1975 May 7: Los Angeles. The leftist-oriented Midnight Special Bookstore is bombed.[8]
* 1975 July 15: Los Angeles. The Mexican consulate is bombed; four people are injured; $35,000 damage is done; it is suspected that the bombing was a joint action of the Hungarian Peace and Freedom Fighters, the Cuban Action Commandos, and the Nazi Group.[8]
* 1975 July 18: Washington, D.C. A bomb placed outside the Costa Rican embassy does not completely detonate.[8]
* 1975 October 6: Miami. The Dominican Republic consulate is bombed.[8]
* 1975 October 10: Ft. Lauderdale. The Broward County courthouse is bombed.[8]
* 1975 October 17: Miami. A bomb explodes in a luggage locker at Miami International Airport.[8]
* 1975 October 31: Miami. Bombing-assassination of Rolando Masferrer. The bomb is triggered by the car ignition[8]
* 1975 November 27: Miami. A time bomb in the restroom of a Bahamas Airlines jet is set to go off as passengers are loading for Nassau; a call indicates the bombing is anti-Castro and that a group called Cuban Power ‘76 is responsible.[8]
* 1975 December 3: Miami. Identical bombs explode on the eve of a visit by William D. Rogers, U.S. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, at the Social Security building, the Florida State Employment Service office, two Post Office buildings, and the FBI headquarters building.[8]
* 1975 December 4: Miami. The Miami police department and Metropolitan Justice building are bombed.
Terrorist Groups
All groups recognised by the CIA's International terrorism report as conducting paramilitary or terrorist acts against Cuba in order to forge political change.
* Abdala
* Alpha 66 - A paramilitary group formed in 1961. Have attempted several unauthorized military campaigns against Cuba and engaged in terrorist activities on international targets in order to raise the profile of their oppositional cause. [2].
* Anti-Castro Commando
* Anti-Communist Commandos
* Condor
* Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU - includes Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles)
* Cuba Action
* Cuba Action Commandos
* Cuban Anti-Communist League
* Cuban C-4
* Movement Cuban Liberation Front
* Cuban National Liberation Front (FLNC)
* Cuban Power (el Poder Cubano)
* Cuban Power
* Cuban Representation in Exile
* Cuban Revolutionary Directorate
* Cuban Revolutionary Organization
* Cuban Youth Group International
* Secret Revolutionary United Cells
* JCN (expansion unknown)
* Latin American Anti-Communist Army
* Movement of Cuban Justice Movement of the Seventh (M-7)
* National Integration Front (FIN; Cuban Nationalist Front)
* Omega 7
* Pedro Luis Boitel
* Command Pedro Ruiz Botero
* Commandos Pragmatistas
* Scorpion (el Alacran)
* Second Front of Escambray
* Secret Anti-Castro Cuban Army
* Secret Cuban Government
* Secret Hand Organization
* Secret Organization Zero
* Young Cubans
* Youths of the Star
[edit] Other groups
* Brothers to the Rescue - A group of Cuban-American activists whose primary objective is to aid Cuban refugees and immigration seekers. The group have also attempted to distribute oppositional literature in Cuba via illegal airdrops over Cuban territory.
* Cuban American National Foundation - Lobbying group for Cuban-Americans in the United States. Also co-ordinates many of the oppositional strategies undertaken by smaller Cuban-American groups and individuals.[3].
* International Committee for Democracy in Cuba Group headed by former Czech president Vaclav Havel aimed to coordinate the approach of European and western hemisphere countries towards Castro’s government. [4]
* Cuban Libertarian Movement - a loose network of collectives and individuals comprising the Cuban anarchist movement, which is anti-capitalist, anti-Castro, and seeks change along libertarian socialist/libertarian communist or similar lines.
[edit] Historical events
* War Against the Bandits (1959 - 1965) - Since 1959, a few groups of Cubans that had fought side by side with Castro, began to take arms against the government, particularly in the Escambray Mountains region of Cuba. The Cuban government labeled them as bandits. By July 26, 1965 Fidel Castro claimed to have abolished "all the Bandits in Cuba".
* Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17, 1961) - The Brigade 2506, a military force of about 1,300 Cuban expatriates, with support of the US government, invaded the Giron beaches ("Ataque a La Playa Girón"). This is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion. This attempt to depose the Revolutionary Government ended in failure. After the Brigade had already engaged in battle, John F. Kennedy cancelled the order for air support, and despite fighting against superior numbers for three days, they surrendered only after their ammo was spent. Thousands of prisoners were taken by the Cuban government.
* The Cuban Project (1961 - 1962) - US President John F. Kennedy initiated a CIA operation on November 30, 1961 to "help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime" aiming "for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962". The covert plan was intended to fuel anti-Castro sentiments provoking an overthrow of the government or assassination attempts on Castro. The Cuban Project played a significant role in the events leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The operation was suspended on October 30, 1962, but three six-man sabotage teams had already been deployed to Cuba, and on November 8, 1962, one six-man CIA team blew up a Cuban industrial facility without permission.
* Bombing of Cubana Flight 455. On October 6, 1976 two time bombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all 73 people on board in what was then the most deadly terrorist attack in the Western hemisphere. Evidence implicated several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles and members of the Venezuelan secret police DISIP.
* Ibero-American Summit Dissidents (1999) - About a dozen opposition groups claiming peaceful opposition to Castro's one-party state urged Ibero-American leaders to back their cause. 40 dissidents planning the gathering were arrested in Havana before the Ibero-American Summit.