From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Cuban Plane Hijacking Made in USA
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:11:14 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

As usual communist propagandists make an accusation and later cannot 
substantiate it in their articles:  For example, the NY Transfer News 
Collective and the Workers World Service write:

>Cuban plane hijacking made in USA

>By Pat Chin

>The recent hijacking of a Cuban commercial airliner has resulted
>in an orgy of semantic contortions by the Cuban exile community
       ^^^^
>and the U.S. government.

[Note how its conviniet to use sexual atributes to depict the reactions of 
Cuban refugees]

>On Dec. 29, an Aero-Caribbean plane on a domestic run over Cuba,
>was flown to Miami by pilot Carlos Cancio Porcel. Before the
>government-owned aircraft was illegally diverted from its
>original course, co-pilot Rolando Vila was overcome, bound and
>silenced in the words of the Dec. 29 New York Times.

So, in the minds of communists we see that a plane is "highjacked".  Then one 
is to ask, by who?  By...THE PILOT!!!  So, he who has control of an aircraft is 
to be accused of taking control of an aircraft????  An "illegal diversion" of 
an aircraft is not a highjacking (e.g. Saddam's violations of the no fly zone). 
Also, isn't it funny to hear Communists invoking law and order?? 

>  Chloroform
>was used to subdue Andres Hernandez Ledesma, the security officer
>on board.

As to the co-pilot and the party commissar on board, I believe they were 
ordered to be put to sleep by the commander of the aircraft, who thought, as 
supreme authority on the ship, that they could have tried to highjack the plane 
once they new it was going to Miami.

>After landing at Miami International Airport, most of the 53
>people on board reportedly requested political asylum in the U.S.
>Five passengers, including the co-pilot, flight attendant and
>security guard, demanded to be repatriated to Cuba.

Well it seems its not a bad number, the Cuban people are begining to dessert 
Castro.  If this reflects the will of the Cuban people to leave the prison 
island of Cuba, Castro  would be left with 10% of the population.  So isn't if 
funny that all these pinkos talk about "democracy" in Cuba, when 90% of the 
population wants to flee the Country, and the regime has only a 10% support??

>The plane had barely touched down when anti-Castro Cubans in
>Miami and U.S. government officials started "scrambling to find a
>legal justification" for the hijacking.  "The officials are
>reluctant to take legal action against the pilot of what they
>regard as a freedom flight but what Cuba says is a hijacking."
>(New York Times, Dec. 29)

So???  This only states that the only ones who view this as a highjacking are 
the Cuban communists and their few American buddies.

>Since the 1959 toppling of the U.S. backed Batistia regime, the
>U.S. has worked feverishly and spent millions of dollars to
>destroy the Cuban revolution. Parts of this campaign, including
>the 30-year blockade, have long encouraged Cubans to desert their
>country.

There's no need to spend money today to discourage people to leave, the 
stalinist dictator, Castro, along with the abundand freedom enjoyed in our 
country is sufficient motivation.

>But under international agreements signed by both Cuba and the
>U.S., hijackings are a crime. Moreover, these accords require
>punishment or extradition of the hijackers and the return of the
>aircraft and passengers.

But this was not a hijacking.  If by some bizzare reason and American Airlines 
Pilot wants to take his plane to Cuba, it is not a hijacking.

>Denounced as a terrorist act by the Cuban government, this latest
>attempt to destabilize Cuba's socialist system came two weeks
>after another incident that, like the hijacking, could not have
>occurred without help from the U.S. The other event involved the
>escapade of Cuban defector Orestes Lorenzo, who flew a small
>plane into Cuba and departed for the U.S. with family members.

This is baloney.  The U.S. didn't help the pilot to change course and avoid 
being highjacked by an armed communist aboard the plane (the so called 
"security" agent).  This was done motu propio.  As for the pilot whe ridicules 
Cuban air defenses by landing his Cessna in the streets of Havana and rescuing 
his wife.  This was all done with private funds, and I personally would have 
sent the U.S. Air Force to escort him all the way.  Since when has it become a 
sin for our government to help out democratic Cuban forces.  In fact U.S. is 
operating under the Law, the Cuban Democracy Law, which lends suppor to Cuban 
Freedom fighters.

>A news release issued Dec. 29 by the New York-based Peace for
>Cuba Appeal exposed the self-serving manipulation of
>international law by right-wing Cubans and U.S. officials. 

This communist front should instead be protesting the brutal Havanna 
Stalinists in order to change their policy of allowing Cuban to travel freely 
abroad.  If they would lobby Castro, as his friends in the U.S. perhaps we 
wouldn't be seeing so many raft people and daredevil attemps to escape the 
dictatorship.

>It
>also blasted the starkly different treatment of Haitian refugees
>who are forcibly returned to Haiti by the U.S. Coast Guard "to
>face extreme conditions in their country."  

Well, first, we don't admit Hatians because they are living under "extreme 
conditions", we admit them because they are undergoing "extreme repression", 
for our government cannot take in all the economic refugees over the planet.  
Secondly, the policy of not allowing them to present their case for political 
assylum will be changed next month, so stop the whinning.  Thirdly, we will 
take effect steps to restore democracy in Hait, in the same way we will take 
them to restore it in Cuba (a little bit of diplomacy and a lot of force).

>But, the release
>continued, "Cubans ready to denounce their government are
>welcomed with open arms by the U.S. in an openly racist double
>standard."

Who ever said the Cubans fleeing were "white", from the pictures I saw, they 
looked brown to me. In any event, there's a POLITICAL double standard, which of 
course will be ammended soon and communsits propagandists will have one less 
thing to whine about.

Edelmiro Salas
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