Get outta town, U.S. tells Cuban 'diplomats' in New York!!!

NY Daily News ^ | 5/13/03

[areafiftyone]

UNITED NATIONS — The United States has ordered seven Cuban diplomats at the country’s U.N. Mission in Manhattan to leave the country for engaging in “activities deemed harmful to the United States” — the usual diplomatic language for spying, an American official said Tuesday.

A number of Cuban diplomats at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington also were being expelled, U.N. diplomats said on condition of anonymity.

A letter ordering the seven U.N.-based diplomats to leave was delivered to the Cuban Mission in Midtown on Monday evening, the official said. It did not give them any time frame to depart.

The U.S. official said the Cubans were being expelled “for engaging in activities deemed harmful to the United States outside their official capacity as members of the permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations.”

“These activities constitute an abuse of their privileges of residence,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

The latest U.N. directory lists 37 accredited Cuban diplomats, led by Ambassador Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla. The names of those ordered expelled were not released.

The Bush administration and Cuban authorities have engaged in an escalating diplomatic tit-for-tat reminiscent of the Cold War days in U.S.-Cuban relations. Until Tuesday, this involved more mundane issues like fixing embassy plumbing.

Last month, the United States walked out of a U.N. meeting to protest Cuba’s re-election to the Human Rights Commission, calling it “an outrage” that undermined the group’s credibility.

Cuba’s uncontested election to the Geneva-based commission came weeks after Fidel Castro’s government sent 78 independent journalists, librarians and opposition leaders to prison for lengthy terms and executed three alleged hijackers trying to get to the United States.

“It was an outrage for us because we view Cuba as the worst violator of human rights in this hemisphere,” Sichan Siv, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, said at the time.

Two months ago, Cuba clamped down on travel by American diplomats, demanding that each trip beyond a specified area around metropolitan Havana be approved. Before, the only requirement was that Cuban authorities be notified of such trips beforehand.

The State Department immediately responded by imposing the same condition on travel by Washington-based Cubans.

The Cuban measure apparently was triggered by Havana’s unease over the travels of the chief U.S. diplomat there, James Cason. He logged an estimated 6,200 miles motoring around the island, sometimes meeting with dissidents.

Cuban President Fidel Castro saw these contacts as subversive and used them partly as an excuse for his March crackdown on 75 dissidents, many of whom were described by the government as traitors. All were sentenced to lengthy prison after brief trials.

The State Department defended Cason’s travels, saying he was seeking a peaceful transition to democracy on the island. It rejected Cuban allegations that U.S. diplomats have provided money to dissidents.

In March, Washington dropped a Clinton-era “people-to-people” policy aimed at increasing contacts between ordinary Americans and Cubans. Under the policy, the U.S. government granted licenses to academics, athletes, scientists and others to travel to Cuba for exchange programs.

The Treasury Department is accepting public comments on the new restrictions until May 23 before the final rules are issued.

Originally published on May 13, 2003

[Grampa Dave]

Danny Glover will be calling this another racist action, and his commy buddy Bellafonte will scream "More US Racism!"

[Grampa Dave]

One stealth bomber could take care of the situation. Take out Castro and the communist movement will begin to fall. Better yet, shock and awe Castro and his top commie thugs at their next meeting. Decapitate the ruling commies, and Cuba will be open for American Tourists before the day is over.

[samtheman]

And there would definitely be dancing in the streets.

[oyez]

Strange about that. Cuba is colorblind. You can't see any one of color in the higher tiers of government.

[Grampa Dave]

The poor Cuban people have put up with these mass murdering thugs for close to a half century.

Communism, Islamofacism and Socialism in less than a century have ruined millions and millions of lives of the survivors while killing at least 100 million people, (Most were their own people!).

[samtheman]

Exactly. Fidel Castro is an active participant in the largest mass-murder campaign on the planet. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein (a socialist more than an Islamofacist), and Fidel.

Meanwhile, back on the Funny Farm, Steven Spielberg said that the time he spent with the Vicious Cuban Butcher was "the most important" hours in his life.

[conservababeJen]

Now if we could just get the UN out of NY, life would be good.

[Grampa Dave]

That is an excellent point. Someone this past week posted that Cuba has a majority of blacks plus what the Cubans call mullatoes. Yet the upper ranks are the very white Spaniard descendants.

Also, Castro sent his soldiers over to Africa to kill Africans and many innocent Africans.

Glover Harry B are communists first, last and allways. They are a special Oreo, black on the outside and very red inside.

[areafiftyone]

I am waiting for the day - just turned around to look out the window! - Nope It's still here Shucks!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Just more proof that Spielberg is like most Follywooders. He and most of Follywood are communists 24/7. They never met a vicious mass murdering Commy dictator that they didn't love.

[samtheman]

But what's particularly despicable about Speilberg is he likes to project a "love the children" image.

Love the children. Right. And lock them up in the life-time fortress-prison of communism.

[Grampa Dave]

That has been at the basics of communism. Love the chilrun and brain wash them to be life long commies.

[freekitty]

What happened to "I arrest you"?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Excellent. Now, let's put more pressure on Castro.

[Brian Allen]

<< Their spying efforts were probably paid for by $oddomite and his regime. >>

More likely by their cretinous allies in Ottawa -- and in Foggy Bottom.

[Think Alger Hiss and multiply to the power of Infinity!]

[nicmarlo]

Danny Glover will be calling this another racist action, and his commy buddy Bellafonte will scream "More US Racism!"

You're right, of course; and I'm so very sick of all their rascist hypocrisy....it grates to no end.

[Publicus]

"Communism, Islamofacism and Socialism in less than a century have ruined millions and millions of lives of the survivors while killing at least 100 million people, (Most were their own people!).

They were our fellow human beings who's only crime was to question tyranny.

[Grampa Dave]

A lot of them didn't get to question why they were being killed. They were innocent farmers, tradesmen, herders, and just people trying to live. Many had no idea of why they and their family were brutally murdered.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt!

No Castro Nor His Communist Regime!

[Grampa Dave]

An excellent site! Thank you!