And to this day, Washington remains committed to restoring its hegemony on the Cuban people. Throughout the Cold War and after the U.S sought, trained and financed Cuban exile terrorist groups (such as Omega 7, Brothers to the Rescue, Alpha 66, Cuban American National Foundation) to conduct terrorist attacks on Cuba, from bombings to hijackings to assassination of Cuban diplomats. Cuban exile terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and ex-CIA operative was granted amnesty by the Bush administration in May of 2007. Posada on 6 October 1976 planted C-4 explosives on Cubana Flight 455 killing all 73 passengers on board. The CANF also gave Posada financial support for the September 4 1997 attacks on three hotels in Havana. That year the CANF made a public statement that it gives unconditional support for terrorist attacks committed by the Cuban gusanos. In the USA five Cubans (Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez) are currently imprisoned on bogus charges of espionage for monitoring these terrorist groups to prevent further attacks against Cuba, and for their loyality to the Cuban Revolution. They became a big nuisance to Washington's tactic to "free" Cuba, and therefore had to be imprisoned. Gerardo Hernandez had infiltrated the gusano terrorist group Brothers to the Rescue, collected information on their plans and passed them on to his four comrades. They in turn informed the Cuban government of the terrorists' activities. Two planes flown by Brothers to the Rescue in 1996 were shot down by the Cuban air force for violation of Cuban air space dropping leaflets calling for counter-revolutionary struggle against Cuba.
However, in the recent years the USA has sought a more attractive method of attacking Fidel Castro and the Cuban workers state. Now, Washington has turned to their old Eastern European anti-Communist lackeys: Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Arpad Goencz whom are also self proclaimed "human rights activists". This counter-revolutionary trio is looked upon by many liberals, bourgeois lefts and "intellectuals" as fighters for "human rights", for their advocation of non-violent resistance and "peace". They even found support among American dissidents such as the Chicana folk singer Joan Baez who even praises Walesa in her song "Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev", and hailed Havel's counter-revolution in Czechoslovakia 1989 with a performance in Prague. This sinister U.S "human rights" tactic is designed simply to win over those liberals and bourgeois leftists who criticize U.S policy on Cuba, but also call for a "peaceful transition to democracy" in Cuba. Lech Walesa led the Solidarnosc (Solidarity) "trade union" in the counter-revolution of Poland in 1989. Solidarnosc had made a bid for power in December of 1981 but was crushed and banned by the Polish People's Army under orders from the then Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, under pressure from the Russians. Solidarnosc had the image of a workers trade union, but in reality it was a front for Wallstreet and Frankfurt bankers, the CIA, MI-6, and the Vatican aimed at restoring capitalism which it succeeded in 1989. Solidarnosc was the only "trade union" that the union busters Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher; and Pope John Paul II had ever or would ever support. Vaclav Havel led the Civic Forum (Obcanske Forum) to power that same year in Czechoslovakia and restored capitalism. Vaclav Havel had received covert U.S aid since the late 1970's when he drew up Charter 77 (Charta 77), a so-called "human rights" group promoting capitalist counter-revolution as part of Jimmy Carter's "human rights" crusade against the Soviet Union and the People's Democracies of Eastern Europe as a result of the Helsinki Accords. Arpad Goencz of Hungary led the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ - Szabad Demokratak Szovetsege) in the capitalist counter-revolution in 1989. Unlike Havel or Walesa, Goencz wasn't internationally popular, as Hungary's counter-revolution was the result of their reformist bureacracy simply switching sides. Arpad Goencz was a pro-imperialist dissident who had fought on the side of the fascists in 1956, became the first president of post Socialist Hungary.
Walesa, Havel, and Goencz are known as "defenders of human rights" internationally. They are more accurately blood stained "humanists", whom have fully supported every U.S military action from Panama to Iraq (war, repeated bombings, starvation embargo) to Somalia to Yugoslavia to the current "war on terrorism" in Afghanistan and Iraq, and dubbed it "humanitarian". As for the U.S starvation embargo, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Arpad Goencz have spoken against it solely on the grounds of the false claim that Fidel Castro uses it to blame their bosses in Washington D.C for Cuba's economic woes. Their method is using their hippie image to arouse international support for U.S foreign policy under the cloak of "human rights". And yet these so-called "humanists" falsely accuse Cuba of violating "human rights". The "human rights" argument is merely a tool for U.S propaganda to vilify Fidel Castro and Cuban Revolution, and for the promotion of U.S military aggession. Due to their loyality to Washington and international image, Walesa, Havel, and Goencz have been chosen as candidates to help a "peaceful and humanitarian" counter-revolution against the Cuban government, thus restoring a Cuban ruling class.
Unfortunately Cuba has a Solidarnosc wannabe reactionary group known as Proyecto Varela (Varela Project- named after a Cuban religious leader) which advocates privatization, foreign investments, re-emergence of bourgeois parties, a capitalist economy through non-violent counter-revolution, and being a "human rights group". And just as Solidarnosc, Varela Project has the backing of the U.S and western governments, and the Catholic Church. The Varela Project is led by a Cuban reactionary Oswaldo Paya who founded the group with other Cuban counter-revolutionaries, who also founded the Christian Liberation Movement, a co-conspirator. These are the "peaceful" faction of Washington's counter-revolutionary mission against the Cuban workers state, which gives the Cuban opposition a more angelic appearance as opposed to Washington's Cuban extremist gusanos. Such a move by the U.S government supporting the non-violent faction of the Cuban counter-revolutionaries is undoubtedly a tactic to appease the international "human rights" groups embedded with the U.N, and in which to the average liberal and bourgeois leftist has the acceptable role of the U.S in "spreading democracy". The Varela Project received its aid from the United States through the U.S interests Section in Havana as of 2003, then headed by James Cason whom had been supplying and hosting these reactionaries in his home since his arrival the previous year with money and sending their "reports" back to Washington. Like Solidarnosc in Poland, the Varela Project receives aid not only from the imperialists but also from the Catholic Church, and thus acts as a Trojan Horse for imperialist domination and capitalist counter-revolution in Cuba just as Solidarnosc was for Poland and Eastern Europe.
On 18 March 2003, Fidel Castro ordered a crackdown of the counter-revolutionaries arresting more than 75 including Oswaldo Paya. At this time the CIA's gusano terrorists had committed three aircraft hijackings as well as a ferry boat hijacking. These acts of terrorism were never condemned by any "human rights" group. Despite this the only thing the international capitalist press forcused on was condemning Fidel Castro for the crackdown. The U.S government was one of complete outrage. Colin Powell in the New York Times on 29 April 2003 denounced Cuba as an "abberation in the Western Hemisphere". U.S State Department spokesman Richard Boucher slammed the arrests as "an intimidation against those who seek freedom and democratic change in Cuba". Cuba's pre-revolutionary history clearly shows the U.S interpretation of "freedom" and "democracy" under Gen. Batista. The hypocrisy of the Bush administration couldn't be more clear and sickening, particulary just after they unleashed an imperialist bloodbath on the Iraqi people. On 10 October 2003, Bush stated in his speech denouncing Cuba vowed to increase the number of allowed to enter the Unitied States each year. The interesting part about this is, if Cuba were to become capitalist the treatment of the Cuban immigrants would change drastically. Notice what happens to Mexicans and other Latino immigrants when they're caught trying to enter the USA.
Organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have to a certain degree criticized the U.S government for the embargo against Cuba, along with U.S training and funding Cuban gusanos. However, these organizations are in full solidarity with Oswaldo Paya and his Varela Project reactionaries, and call on the imperialist governments to show their support. Their only focus was condemning the Cuban government for "violating human rights". In fact after Fidel Castro ordered the arrests, Oswaldo Paya and his peers were added to Amnesty International's list of "prisoners of conscience". The previous year Oswaldo Paya received the Sakharov Prize by the imperialist European Parliament for his action. This award was named after Soviet pro-imperialist dissident Andrei Sakharov who advocated counter-revolution in the USSR in Carter's "human rights" crusade against the Soviet Union, receiving substantial funds from the USA. Two years later the Damas en Blanco (Ladies in White), wives of the jailed reactionaries won the Sakharov Prize. As a result of the crackdown, the ISHR (International Society for Human Rights) based in Germany held a demonstration in front of the Cuban embassy in Berlin condemning the arrests. They held up a cardboard collage with pictures of the jailed Varela Project reactionaries demanding their release with a sticker depicting the ugly phrase "No Castro, No Problem". ISHR has only condemned nations which are not friendly to the U.S imperialists for "human rights abuses". This is what is called "human rights" imperialism. The promotion of U.S and European imperialism by pressing "human rights" issues.
It was after Fidel Castro's round up of the dissidents when the U.S turned to their old servants of Eastern Europe to continue rousing international condemnation of the Cuban workers state, and promote "peaceful" counter-revolution. It was Lech Walesa himself in 2003 who informed Vaclav Havel and Arpad Goencz of a plan of "building a free Cuba". The three have established contact with the Cuban reactionaries and have called governments to take diplomatic steps in bringing down Fidel Castro and the Cuban workers state under the cloak of "human rights". Vaclav Havel responded with the founding of the "International Committee for Democracy in Cuba" in Prague of which aside from Havel, Walesa, and Goencz contains members such as former heads of NATO governments; North American and Western European politicians (conservative and liberal); ex-Soviet and Eastern European dissidents; and Latin American right-wing liberal politicians assisting the Varela Project in counter-revolution. In fact in early 2001 two of Havel's lackeys of the ICDC Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik ex-Civic Forum activists were arrested in Cuba for assisting counter-revolutionary dissidents. Pilip and Bubenik prior to their mission in Cuba had been in Washington D.C and met with the Freedom House, a "human rights" group openly funded by the U.S imperialists which both men were members of. The Freedom House provided Pilip and Bubenik with a laptop computer, diskettes, and CD-ROMs which undoubtedly would be used for the reactionaries to pass information on to and maintain contact with their bosses in Washington. Both were released a month later after they admitted to breaking the law, but stated they had no idea that they were breaking the law at the time of the arrests. Fidel Castro demanded an apology from the Czech Republic which Vaclav Havel refused and hypocritically condemning Pilip's and Bubenik's arrests as "human rights abuses".
Czechoslovakia was the first country that gave support to the Cuban Revolution by sending money, weapons, and industial assistance to develop the Cuban economy. After the counter-revolution in the Czechoslovak workers state, Vaclav Havel then made it a central focus in his foreign policy to promote counter-revolution in Cuba starting by being the first to sign a U.N imperialist document condemning Cuba for "human rights abuse". This is the obvious reason for Havel's obsession. The Czech embassy in Havana has since then been receiving instructions from the U.S imperialists in the mission for counter-revolution in Cuba. Almost a year after the mass arrests in Cuba, Havel hosted Paya in Prague where Paya made a tribute to the arrests as the "Cuban Spring". This was an homage to the Prague Spring in 1968 in Czechoslovakia when it became a hotbed for pro-imperialist activities until August of that year when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops put an end to it. Arpad Goencz appears to be just be a barking little puppy constantly blabbing as an accomplice urging a "peaceful overthrow" of Fidel Castro and Socialism in Cuba. Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Arpad Goencz in reality do not care about freedom. They want what the U.S government wants, a Cuba where they can invest in private business, and make their profits. As we have seen in Eastern Europe after 1989, a counter-revolution will will cost the Cuban people the social and economic gains they enjoy.
Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Arpad Goencz simply can't stomach the fact a nation in a region that America is used to dominating have been defying their bosses in Washington D.C for over forty years. In the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest (as well as the other former Socialist countries) homelessness, poverty, and unemployment are on the rise while the likes of Walesa, Havel, and Goencz can live the privelaged life, and this is the system they wish to impose on the Cuban people with Oswlado Paya and his band of Varela Project cronies as the Cuban ruling class, while the Cuban working class is enslaved to American and western corporations if they can actually get a job. Of course considering the Cuban Opposition's mafia connections in Miami they'll also throw in an extreme right-wing military junta. Looking at the current situation in capitalist Russia, one need not imagine what a mafia ran capitalist Cuba would look like. To prevent this counter-revolutionary disaster for the Cuban workers an immediate and effective crackdown on these Washington backed vermin is necessary at any time, Comrade Castro has been successful so far; however he will not be here forever. The people of Cuba should not be fooled by these "freedom fighters" or these so called "humanists" Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Arpad Goencz with the lies of "freedom" and "democracy" for they will bring nothing but pain to Cuba as they have for the workers of Eastern Europe. "Freedom and Democracy" in Cuba=Cuban U.S puppet state. For those who are familiar with names like Rios Montt, Somoza, D'Aubuisson, Batista, Banzer, Stroessner, Videla, Pinochet, know exactly what results a counter-revolution in Cuba will bring for the Cuban workers.
