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Castro and Terrorism A Chronology By Eugene Pons ]Castro and Terrorism: A Chronology - Scholarly Repository May 10, 2001 – This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Institute of Cuban and Cuban American Studies ... http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=iccaspapers 1959-1967 * Raúl Castro and Che Guevara visited Cairo and established contacts with African liberation movements stationed in and supported by Cairo. Both Cuban leaders visited Gaza and expressed support for the Palestinian cause. * Members of the Dominican Republic "Agrupación Política Catorce de Junio" received military training in Cuba. * Major emphasis was placed on instructing several...

Obama Skips Scalia Funeral–Will Visit Cuba Next Month to Honor the Castro Brothers Humberto Fontova 2/19/2016 Castro’s is the only regime in the history of the Western hemisphere to herd tens of thousands of men and boys into forced labor camps at Soviet bayonet-point for the “crime” of being gay, genuine or suspected. "Work Will Make Men Out of You" read the sign at the Castroite prison-camp’s gate, right over the barbed wire and next to the machine gunners posted on the watchtowers. The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG, but the conditions were quite similar. I ask...

TIME MAGAZINE STILL ENAMORED WITH KILLER CHE GUEVARA The mass-murderer who never let his asthma get in the way of his slaughter. October 15, 2015 Humberto Fontova On the 48th anniversary of his death last Friday, Time Magazine ran yet another encomium to mass-murderer and terrorist Ernesto Guevara, better known as “Che.” “How Che Guevara Didn’t Let Asthma Affect His Ambitions,” ran the Time headline.... In fact, for all the “heroism” Time attributes to him, the one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara's life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders...

U.S. LEADERSHIP USHERS NEW AGE OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM Twelve Christians are publicly raped, beheaded, and crucified for refusing to renounce Christ in Syria. October 13, 2015 Raymond Ibrahim Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Originally published by the Gatestone Institute. Wherever U.S. leadership has helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of “democracy and freedom,” indigenous Christian minorities are being forced to convert to Islam or die. Many are accepting death. Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12...

VATICAN EX-AMBASSADOR IN CUBA CRITICIZES THE GOVERNMENT The ex-Ambassador of the Vatican in Cuba, Archbisho Bruno , spoke openly about Cuba’s “extreme poverty and human and civil degradation.” Miami Herald 8/29/2014 By Nora Gamez Torres In an unusual gesture for a member high in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy in Cuba, the Apostolic nuncio Bruno Musaro spoke openly about Cuba’s “extreme poverty and human and civil degradation.” ...The Cuban people are “victims of a socialist dictatorship that has kept them subjugated for the past 56 years,” Musaro said, according to the Italian newspaper, Lecce News24. “I’m thankful to the pope for...

WHO REALLY IS POPE FRANCIS? Which one of these is Pope Bergoglio: the voice of the oppressed, the poor, the marginalized or the voice of the oppressors? In Cuba we witnessed a political, never pastoral, WHO REALLY IS POPE FRANCIS? by dqban229/27/2015Pope Bergoglio becoming the voice of the oppressors. He ignored the cry for help of 11 million Cubans marginalized, oppressed, the poorest among the poor enslaved under a brutal Stalinist regime for over 56 years. The Pope in Cuba called for "reconciliation" which in Francis' Orwellian lexicon means not to create "lios" (not to revolt), ask he asked the...

United States and Cuba, the Devil and Holy Water They are the two destinations of the next journey of Pope Francis, at the opposite poles of his geopolitical vision. The enigma of the pope’s silence on the absence of freedom in the regime of Fidel and Raúl Castro by Sandro Magister ROME, September 11, 2015 - The United States and Cuba, or the devil and holy water. The journey that Pope Francis has scheduled from September 19 to 27 will take him to the two opposite poles of his geopolitical vision: to the temple of the “economy that kills” and...

WHEN FRANCIS CAME TO CUBA By Carlos Eire We should cheer any time a pope mingles with sinners. It’s what Jesus did, and what his vicar on earth is supposed to do, too. Sin and evil need to be confronted, not ignored, and those who are unjust should be urged to repent and mend their ways. Unfortunately, there is little to cheer about when it comes to the mingling Pope Francis did with the Castro brothers in Cuba, and with other heads of state in Latin America who praise and emulate their dictatorship. Pope Francis seems much too comfortable with...

Pope Francis appeases the Castros in repressive Cuba The Post's View By WP Editorial Board September 21 IN HIS visit to the United States beginning Tuesday, Pope Francis will meet not just President Obama and Congress but also those marginalized by our society: homeless people, immigrants, refugees and even the inmates of a jail. He’s expected to raise topics that many Americans will find challenging, such as his harsh critique of capitalism. His supporters say it’s all part of the role the pope has embraced as an advocate for the powerless, one that has earned him admiration from both Catholics...

POPE FRANCIS DESECRATES MEMORY OF CATHOLIC MARTYRS IN CUBA The Castro regime's reward for mass murder. September 22, 2015 Humberto Fontova http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260201/pope-francis-desecrates-memory-catholic-martyrs-humberto-fontova “Dear Mom and Dad, I’ve just received the news that I’ll be executed by firing squad in the morning. I assure you, dear parents, that I’ve never felt such spiritual tranquility as I do now. I feel content knowing that very shortly I’ll be with God, waiting and praying for you, my parents. I realize this news is painful for you, but please have faith in the Eternal Life. I want you all to rise above this and...

The Left Has Its Pope Thomas Sowell Townhall magazine| Sep 22, 2015 "Pope Francis' own native Argentina was once among the leading economies of the world, before it was ruined by the kind of ideological notions he is now promoting around the world." "Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States." "Pope Francis is part of a larger trend of the rise of the political left among Catholic...

ISLAM'S DOCTRINES OF DECEPTION by Raymond Ibrahim Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst October 2008 To better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic nature of the religion. According to sharia (Islamic law) every conceivable human act is categorised as being either forbidden, discouraged, permissible, recommended, or obligatory. "Common sense" or "universal opinion" has little to do with Islam's notions of right and wrong. Only what Allah (through the Quran) and his prophet Muhammad (through the Hadith) have to say about any given issue matters; and how Islam's greatest theologians and jurists – collectively known as the ulema, literally, "they who...

Would Univision try Blackmailing Donald Trump? By Humberto Fontova 8/28/2015 A long time ago in a place far, far away the same Univision who boasts Jorge Ramos as their “Walter Cronkite” tried blackmailing Senator Marco Rubio into an interview. Seems strange, no? Well, during that long ago era (2011) and in that far-away place, Senator Rubio’s position regarding illegal immigrants was widely perceived as pretty close to Trump’s today. Hence the long ago and far away description—and hence the blackmail attempt by America’s top media proponent of illegal immigration. Univision is the biggest Spanish-language network in the U.S., reaching thirteen...

Obama’s New Cuban Partners, My Old Jailers The regime was built on the blood of dissidents like those the U.S. now avoids acknowledging. By Armando Valladares Aug. 20, 2015 7: Thousands of Cubans have died fighting for rights that Americans so freely enjoy. The right to build a church and preach without fear of harassment and secret recording by government hooligans. The right to protest without wondering if your friends will be carted off, never to be seen or heard from again. The right to criticize your government leaders in the opinion pages of a newspaper without fear of being...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to Andres Oppenheimer on Cuba “Obama administration would ask Cuba — a military dictatorship that has not allowed a free election in more than five decades — to help persuade Venezuela to hold free elections and uphold democratic principles sounds preposterous.” http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article31048407.html Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer speaks to Secretary of State John Kerry in advance of his historic visit to Cuba on Friday. Video by Miami Herald/CNN en Espanol Miami Herald/CNN en Espanol Andes Oppenheimer @MiamiHerald.com August 12, 2015 If you ask me what was the most interesting thing that Secretary of...

More tourists won’t change Cuba By Ambassador James Cason Miami Herald August 12, 2015 http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article30959136.html On Friday, Secretary John Kerry opens up the new U.S. Embassy in Havana. Unfortunately, he shares many of the misconceptions advanced by former Secretary Hillary Clinton at her recent speech at Florida International University. Her incursion into the debate on U.S. Cuba policy could have been a “teachable moment” had she been mindful of her academic audience and the danger of ignoring the facts when trying to justify an abrupt reversal of U.S. foreign policy. Instead she delivered another polemic on lifting what remains of...

OBAMA EMBRACES CASTRO-COMMUNISM Dqban22 8/16/2015 The Catholic Magazine “Ideal” couldn’t better describe the ceremony of raising the American flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana:“Another unpardonable treason…”“Absent at the ceremony were:” “Thousands murdered by Castro’s firing squads.”“Thousands of political prisoners.”“Thousands drowned at sea.”“Millions of Exiles.”“Millions of divided families.”“Millions of unborn babies.”“Three generations living in material And spiritual poverty.”One of the most used ad nauseam arguments to justify the unconditional surrender of president Obama to the Cuban Stalinist regime is that over 50 years U.S. commercial embargo against the Cuban communist regime did not work and that it damaged the...

Dancing With Another Dictatorship The most plausible answer is that the Obama administration is once again working to save a police state that is about to collapse under its own weight. The trouble is that every time team Obama sits down at the poker table with thugs—think Russia, Iran and Cuba—it gets cleaned out. The region’s democracy advocates are right to be nervous. The rest of the aricle http://www.wsj.com/articles/dancing-with-another-dictatorship-1434922282

Islam’s Jihad on Churches Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On June 16, 2015 @ 12:07 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage [1]Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Originally published by the Gatestone Institute [2]. On Sunday, March 15, as Christian churches around the world were celebrating morning mass, two churches in Pakistan—one Catholic, one Protestant—were attacked [3] by Islamic suicide bombers. At least 17 people were killed and over 70 wounded. The Taliban claimed responsibility. It is believed that the group had hoped for much greater death tolls, as there were almost 2,000 people in both churches...

The Protestant Inquisition: "Reformation" Intolerance and Persecution Dave ArmstrongMarch 07, 2007 "Disclaimer and statement of intent: Unfortunately, the religious "scandal score" needs to be evened up now and then, and the lesser-known "skeletons in the closet" need to be rescued from obscurity, surveyed, and exposed. I take no pleasure in "dredging up" these unsavory occurrences, but it is necessary for honest, fair historical appraisal. This does not mean that I have forsaken ecumenism, or that I wish to bash Protestants, or that I deny corresponding Catholic shortcomings." "Historical facts are what they are, and most Protestants (and Catholics) are unaware...