| | |  Americas & Beyond | October 2008 
Bush Awards License to Notorious Terrorist
 Jean-Guy Allard - Granma
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| | Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo | | |
The Miami press has announced that the U.S. government has awarded a license to Cuban-American Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo, a member of the Miami mafia with a very long criminal career, "to send aid directly" to Cuba following Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
The decision has been taken while the White House is distorting the news with hypothetical offers of official aid to the island, which it is attempting to impose through its Agency for International Development (USAID). That same state organization, linked to the CIA, annually spends tens of thousands of dollars from its Cuba program involving espionage and subversive activities.
Fifty-four year old Sánchez Rizo is without doubt one of the enigmatic brutes of the Miami fauna and his terrorist trail can be traced back to the 1970s.
FROM ALPHA 66 TO OMEGA 7
From 1970 and 1982, he was a member of no less than seven terrorist groups in which he was a leading light without once in those 12 years ever facing the slightest problem with the FBI. From 1970 onward, "Ramoncito" Sánchez successively appeared in the so-called Cuban Liberation Front, the Abdala organization (where Frank "USAID" Calzón was also lurking) and in Alpha 66.
He then transformed himself into chief of the Jóvenes de la Estrella terrorist group, prior to becoming second-in-command after Orlando Bosch in the Coordinadora de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas (CORU), which ordered the mid-flight explosion of a Cubana Aviación airliner, the most horrifying crime committed by Miami’s ultra-right with the consent of the CIA.
On May 10, 1970, he was involved in an Alpha 66 pirate attack on the Plataforma I and Plataforma IV fishing boats, belonging to the Capitán Miguel Ángel Rojas collective in Caibarién in what is now the province of Villa Clara.
After destroying the Cuban boats, Sánchez and his accomplices held the 11 fishermen hostage for one week on an islet in the Bahamas, subsequently abandoning them to their fate, two of them with serious injuries.
In that same period, Sánchez Rizo was involved in the kidnapping of individuals in Florida, New York, Caracas, and Mexico.
HE PLANTED THE BOMB, AROCENA CONFESSED
Omega 7 chief Eduardo Arocena – who briefly converted to become an FBI informant – confirmed how it was Sánchez Rizo who, along with his accomplices, planted a bomb beneath the car of Raúl Roa, Cuban ambassador to the UN in a failed assassination attempt on March 25, 1980.
After breaking off his ties with the FBI and disappearing for 11 months, Arocena was not arrested again until July 22, 1983 in Miami.
Meanwhile, Sánchez was arrested in New York where, on June 14, 1983, he was handed down a nine-year sentence for his criminal silence. A sentence that an appeal judge complacently reduced to four years.
He was back on the streets in November 1986. In a miracle of mutation that can only happen in Miami and with the complicity of the CIA in the country that claims to be combating terrorism, in 1995 Sánchez transformed himself into a human rights activist after founding the Movimiento Democracia, of which he was appointed lifetime secretary.
In this position, he promoted fundraising activities to support Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices, imprisoned in Panama for organizing an assassination attempt on the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, which could have resulted in the destruction of a university auditorium packed full of students.
His group was later responsible for a whole series of provocative activities, when it sent out fleets of vessels to violate Cuban territorial waters, with the evident objective of producing a military confrontation between the United States and Cuba.
Currently, "Ramoncito" is seeking to play a starring role by offering himself as a benefactor of the same people against whom he perpetrated criminal attacks. Bush has acknowledged his "merits" and for that reason has awarded a license to this notorious terrorist. |
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