Quito’s Police: CIA breeding ground

“I applied and was accepted at the Escuela superior de policía de Quito, and studied there from September 1992 to August 1995.”

Guy Philippe, speaking to Peter Hallward about his background prior to leading an armed insurgency that contributed to the removal of Haiti’s elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Report Confirmed: U.S. Intelligence Thoroughly Penetrated the Ecuadoran Police – español

By Jean-Guy Allard

Translation: Machetera

The uprising by putschist elements of the Ecuadoran police against President Rafael Correa confirms an alarming report about the infiltration of the Ecuadoran police by U.S. intelligence services released in 2008, which indicated that many members of the police corps developed a “dependence” on the U.S. Embassy.

Fishing with Posada Carriles – the continued banality of evil

Adolf Eichmann, left...Luis Posada Carriles, right

“Eichmann’s memory…was certainly not controlled by chronological order, but it was not simply erratic.  It was like a storehouse, filled with human-interest stories of the worst type.  When he thought back to Prague, there emerged the occasion when he was admitted to the presence of the great Heydrich, who showed himself to have a “more human side.”  A few sessions later, he mentioned a trip to Bratislava, in Slovakia, where he happened to be at the time when Heydrich was assassinated.  What he remembered was that he was there as the guest of Sano Mach, Minister of the Interior in the German-established Slovakian puppet government.  (In that strongly anti-Semitic Catholic government, Mach represented the German version of anti-Semitism; he refused to allow exceptions for baptized Jews and he was one of the persons chiefly responsible for the wholesale deportation of Slovak Jewry.)  Eichmann remembered this because it was unusual for him to receive social invitations from members of governments; it was an honor.  Mach, as Eichmann recalled, was a nice easygoing fellow who invited him to bowl with him.  Did he really have no other business in Bratislava in the middle of the war than to go bowling with the Minister of the Interior?  No, absolutely no other business; he remembered it all very well, how they bowled, and how drinks were served just before the news of the attempt on Heydrich’s life arrived.”

Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem  – A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)

And so, in 2010, we arrive at the news that Francisco Chávez Abarca, Luis Posada Carriles errand boy who was arrested in Venezuela in July, has been singing like a canary to Cuban investigators.  According to Chávez Abarca, his boss Posada, the biggest terrorist in the Western Hemisphere, checks in with the CIA before each one of his terrorist “hits” against Cuba, and also enjoyed warm relations with many former rightwing presidents of El Salvador, including Francisco Flores (1999-2004), who used to go fishing with Posada.

Exporting Revolution, Revolutionary Models and Historical Facts

Exporting Revolution, Revolutionary Models and Historical Facts

Nelson P. Valdés, for Cuba-L Analysis

“I asked him [Fidel Castro]  if he believed the Cuban model was still something worth exporting.” - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic Blog,  September 8, 2010

“In their ravings they pretend that Cuba is an exporter of revolutions. In
their sleepless business and usurers’ minds they believe that revolutions
can be sold and bought, rent or lent, export or import as one more [piece of] merchandise.” -  Fidel Castro, February 4, 1962

“We maintain that a revolution cannot be imported or exported. A socialist state cannot be established through artificial insemination or by the
transplant of embryos. Revolution required the proper conditions developed within the very society, and only the people of the country can be its own creator.” – Fidel Castro, December 7, 1989

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Is there a “Cuban model” of socialism? Apparently the rightwing thinks so;
the left disagrees.  The phrase “Cuban model” is not a common occurrence in
Cuban government servers.

What exactly is a “model”?  The Collins Dictionary of Sociology defines
“model” as a “simplification of complex reality” that avoids “complicating
factors.”  As a rule of thumb I would claim that those who know little
history [or sociology] tend to grasp for the term model when they are merely
generalizing because they do not have much more to go on. 

September 12: 12 years too long for the Cuban Five

Miami: Terrorist Eden

Mafia Network Involved in Murder of Venezuelan Prosecutor Danilo Anderson Finds Sanctuary in Miami – español

By Jean-Guy Allard

Translation: Machetera

“My brother was a victim of an international plot, involving a number of people who, upon realizing they were being investigated by the Public Ministry, fled the country and are currently being protected by the United States government, “ said Lourdes Suarez Anderson, denouncing the murder of her brother, the Venezuelan prosecutor Danilo Anderson.

In an interview from Caracas, Suarez, also an attorney, indicated that “despite the countless requests that the Attorney General’s office has made to have them brought to Venezuela,” a number of suspects have found refuge and protection in the country that denounces all “sponsors of terrorism” at its convenience.

In fact, with the “disappearance” to the United States of the banking grifter Nelson Mezerhane, one of the main people involved in the crime, there are now around a dozen individuals linked in one way or another with Anderson’s murder who now reside in U.S. territory.