>From: "Eric V. Kirk" <kirk at humboldt.net>
>Reply-To: dsanet at quantum.sdsu.edu
>To: <dsanet at quantum.sdsu.edu>
>Subject: dsanet: Freedom lovers in Little Havana
>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:12:49 -0700
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>The author of this message is "Eric V. Kirk" <kirk at humboldt.net>
>
>I wonder at the silence of all the patriots over the flag burnings at the
>domonstrations. Maybe the new amendment will contain an exception for
>Cuban
>Republicans?
>
>Anyway, an interesting historical summary of the Miami crowd:
>
>
> http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin.html1968
> http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin.html
>
> From MacArthur Causeway, pediatrician Orlando Bosch fires bazooka at a
>Polish freighter. (City of Miami later
> declares "Orlando Bosch Day." Federal agents will jail him in 1988.)
>
> 1972 Julio Iglesias, performing at a local nightclub, says he wouldn't
>mind "singing in front of Cubans." Audience
> erupts in anger. Singer requires police escort. Most radio stations
>drop
>Iglesias from playlists. One that doesn't,
> Radio Alegre, receives bomb threats.
>
> 1974 Exile leader José Elias de la Torriente murdered in his Coral
>Gables home after failing to carry out a planned
> invasion of Cuba.
>
> 1974 Bomb blast guts the office of Spanish-language magazine Replica.
>
> 1974 Several small Cuban businesses, citing threats, stop selling
>Replica.
>
> 1974 Three bombs explode near a Spanish-language radio station.
>
> 1974 Hector Diaz Limonta and Arturo Rodriguez Vives murdered in
>internecine exile power struggles.
>
> 1975 Luciano Nieves murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence
>with
>Cuba.
>
> 1975 Another bomb damages Replica's office.
>
> 1976 Rolando Masferrer and Ramon Donestevez murdered in internecine
>exile power struggles.
>
> 1976 Car bomb blows off legs of WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian
>after he publicly condemns exile violence.
>
> 1977 Juan José Peruyero murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
>
> 1979 Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment interrupted by gunfire
>and
>physical violence instigated by two exile
> groups.
>
> 1979 Bomb discovered at Padron Cigars, whose owner helped negotiate
>release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.
>
> 1979 Bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
>
> 1980 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
>
> 1980 Powerful anti-personnel bomb discovered at American Airways
>Charter, which arranges flights to Cuba.
>
> 1981 Bomb explodes at Mexican Consulate on Brickell Avenue in protest
>of
>relations with Cuba.
>
> 1981 Replica's office again damaged by a bomb.
>
> 1982 Two outlets of Hispania Interamericana, which ships medicine to
>Cuba, attacked by gunfire.
>
> 1982 Bomb explodes at Venezuelan Consulate in downtown Miami in
>protest
>of relations with Cuba.
>
> 1982 Bomb discovered at Nicaraguan Consulate.
>
> 1982 Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre defends $10,000 grant to exile commando
>group Alpha 66 by noting that the
> organization "has never been accused of terrorist activities inside
>the
>United States."
>
> 1983 Another bomb discovered at Replica.
>
> 1983 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
>
> 1983 Bomb explodes at Paradise International, which arranges travel to
>Cuba.
>
> 1983 Bomb explodes at Little Havana office of Continental National
>Bank,
>one of whose executives, Bernardo
> Benes, helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.
>
> 1983 Miami City Commissioner Demetrio Perez seeks to honor exile
>terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, accidentally
> killed while assembling a bomb. (Perez is now a member of the Miami-
>Dade County Public School Board and owner
> of the Lincoln-Martí private school where Elian Gonzalez is enrolled.)
>
> 1983 Gunfire shatters windows of three Little Havana businesses linked
>to Cuba.
>
> 1986 South Florida Peace Coalition members physically attacked in
>downtown Miami while demonstrating against
> Nicaraguan contra war.
>
> 1987 Bomb explodes at Cuba Envios, which ships packages to Cuba.
>
> 1987 Bomb explodes at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to
>Cuba.
>
> 1987 Bomb explodes at Cubanacan, which ships packages to Cuba.
>
> 1987 Car belonging to Bay of Pigs veteran is firebombed.
>
> 1987 Bomb explodes at Machi Viajes a Cuba, which arranges travel to
>Cuba.
>
> 1987 Bomb explodes outside Va Cuba, which ships packages to Cuba.
>
> 1988 Bomb explodes at Miami Cuba, which ships medical supplies to
>Cuba.
>
> 1988 Bomb threat against Iberia Airlines in protest of Spain's
>relations
>with Cuba.
>
> 1988 Bomb explodes outside Cuban Museum of Art and Culture after
>auction
>of paintings by Cuban artists.
>
> 1988 Bomb explodes outside home of Maria Cristina Herrera, organizer
>of
>a conference on U.S.-Cuba relations.
>
> 1988 Bomb threat against WQBA-AM after commentator denounces Herrera
>bombing.
>
> 1988 Bomb threat at local office of Immigration and Naturalization
>Service in protest of terrorist Orlando Bosch being
> jailed.
>
> 1988 Bomb explodes near home of Griselda Hidalgo, advocate of
>unrestricted travel to Cuba.
>
> 1988 Bomb damages Bele Cuba Express, which ships packages to Cuba.
>
> 1989 Another bomb discovered at Almacen El Español, which ships
>packages
>to Cuba.
>
> 1989 Two bombs explode at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to
>Cuba.
>
> 1990 Another, more powerful, bomb explodes outside the Cuban Museum of
>Art and Culture.
>
> 1991 Using crowbars and hammers, exile crowd rips out and urinates on
>Calle Ocho "Walk of Fame" star of Mexican
> actress Veronica Castro, who had visited Cuba.
>
> 1992 Union Radio employee beaten and station vandalized by exiles
>looking for Francisco Aruca, who advocates an
> end to U.S. embargo.
>
> 1992 Cuban American National Foundation mounts campaign against the
>Miami Herald, whose executives then
> receive death threats and whose newsracks are defaced and smeared with
>feces.
>
> 1992 Americas Watch releases report stating that hard-line Miami
>exiles
>have created an environment in which
> "moderation can be a dangerous position."
>
> 1993 Inflamed by Radio Mambí commentator Armando Perez-Roura, Cuban
>exiles physically assault demonstrators
> lawfully protesting against U.S. embargo. Two police officers injured,
>sixteen arrests made. Miami City Commissioner
> Miriam Alonso then seeks to silence anti-embargo demonstrators: "We
>have
>to look at the legalities of whether the
> City of Miami can prevent them from expressing themselves."
>
> 1994 Human Rights Watch/Americas Group issues report stating that
>Miami
>exiles do not tolerate dissident
> opinions, that Spanish-language radio promotes aggression, and that
>local government leaders refuse to denounce
> acts of intimidation.
>
> 1994 Two firebombs explode at Replica magazine's office.
>
> 1994 Bomb threat to law office of Magda Montiel Davis following her
>videotaped exchange with Fidel Castro.
>
> 1996 Music promoter receives threatening calls, cancels local
>appearance
>of Cuba's La Orquesta Aragon.
>
> 1996 Patrons attending concert by Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba
>physically assaulted by 200 exile
> protesters. Transportation for exiles arranged by Dade County
>Commissioner Javier Souto.
>
> 1996 Firebomb explodes at Little Havana's Centro Vasco restaurant
>preceding concert by Cuban singer Rosita
> Fornes.
>
> 1996 Firebomb explodes at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to
>Cuba.
>
> 1996 Arson committed at Tu Familia Shipping, which ships packages to
>Cuba.
>
> 1997 Bomb threats, death threats received by radio station WRTO- FM
>following its short-lived decision to include in
> its playlist songs by Cuban musicians.
>
> 1998 Bomb threat empties concert hall at MIDEM music conference during
>performance by 91-year-old Cuban
> musician Compay Segundo.
>
> 1998 Bomb threat received by Amnesia nightclub in Miami Beach
>preceding
>performance by Cuban musician Orlando
> "Maraca" Valle.
>
> 1998 Firebomb explodes at Amnesia nightclub preceding performance by
>Cuban singer Manolín.
>
> 1999 Violent protest at Miami Arena performance of Cuban band Los Van
>Van leaves one person injured, eleven
> arrested.
>
> 1999 Bomb threat received by Seville Hotel in Miami Beach preceding
>performance by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes.
> Hotel cancels concert.
>
> January 26, 2000 Outside Miami Beach home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin,
>protester displays sign reading, "Stop the
> deaths at sea. Repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act," then is physically
>assaulted by nearby exile crowd before police
> come to rescue.
>
> April 11, 2000 Outside home of Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives, radio
>talk show host Scot Piasant of Portland,
> Oregon, displays T-shirt reading, "Send the boy home" and "A father's
>rights," then is physically assaulted by
> nearby exile crowd before police come to rescue.
>
> jim.mullin at miaminewtimes.com
>
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