Ana Belen Montes Will Live in Puerto Rico

 

   On 09-21-2001 the top Cuban expert in the U. S. government, Ana Belen Montes, was arrested and charged with being a spy for Cuba. After serving 20 years in a U. S. federal prison, Ana this month of January-2023 was released and quickly she flew from Texas to the Caribbean U. S. Territory of Puerto Rico.

     Two sources -- the BBC and CBS -- now indicate that Ana Belen Montes, now 65-years-old, will live in Puerto Rico now that she is free again. For over 20 years, or ever since her arrest as the ultra-highest profile U. S. Cuban spy, she has repeatedly expressed her abiding concern for how the United States government treats the people in both Cuba and Puerto Rico.

    During the massive saga of Ana Belen Montes the U. S. media, not surprisingly, has focused on how her story helps prove how and why the Cuban Counter Revolutionary zealots in the U. S. should continue to be vastly funded and vastly supported so, presumably, they and U. S. businessmen can regain control of the Cuba that they lost when the Cuban Revolution in 1959 defeated the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista DICTATORSHIP. Since Ana Belen Montes was arrested in 2001 the U. S. media has used her as a propaganda tool to cement the USA's Cuban policies that appease prime Counter Revolutionaries, especially those in Miami and Congress. Therefore basic truths about Ana that didn't fit that narrative were not revealed. She was, in fact, a brilliant graduate of the University of Virginia and John Hopkins University that quickly emerged as the top Cuban expert in the highest realms of the U. S. government's defense and intelligence areas. As such a unique expert, Ana firmly came to believe that the U. S. Cuban policies, after the fall of the Batista dictatorship, was acutely "cruel and immoral." She then used her exalted position within the U. S. government to spy for Cuba, and not even her critics to this day claim that she did so because Cuba paid her to be their spy in Washington. The Cuban narratives in the U. S. since 1959 have been one-sided but above in the CBS/BBC update on Ana in January of 2023 there incredibly are some truthful facts regarding her release from prison. The first two paragraphs, for example, say:

      "In the first statement to the media since her release, Montes said she hoped the focus would shift away from her and towards what she said were 'serious problems' facing people in Cuba and Puerto Rico. I, as a person, am irrelevant. I don't matter,' Montes said in her statement, written in Spanish. 'There are serious problems in our global homeland that require attention.'"

       The day in 2001 when she was sentenced to 25 years in a U. S. federal prison, Ana Belen Montes calmly and sincerely read a long statement to the judge explaining that she would never regret what she had done. As you can see above, after serving twenty years in a U. S. federal prison, she still feels the same way.

    Now 65-years-old and living as a free woman in Puerto Rico, Ana Belen Montes remains uniquely a person of conscience: "I, as a person, am irrelevant. I don't matter. There are serious problems in our global homeland that require attention."

      In both 2001 and in 2023 Ana Belen Montes had the courage and insight to make this statement: "There are serious problems in our global homeland that require attention." She, of course, was referring to the USA's Cuban policies that from 1962  until 2023 have been allowed to exist and to be internationally depicted by the famed Carlos LaTuff image {above} that continues to saturate the world. Obviously, Ana Belen Montes believes this image of the U. S. insults both Cuba and the United States.

    Decade after Decade and Year after Year the nations of the world vote in the United Nations in New York for the United States to end the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. And each Year the near-unanimity of the vote resounds around the world, but to no avail. In fact, in one year {2016} the vote was totally unanimous because the then U. S. President, Barack Obama, refused to support it!!! Yet, even in 2016, the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba continued and it still continues!!!

    When she was sentenced to 25 years in prison in September of  2001, Ana Belen Montes told the judge that she had no regrets because, as the USA government's top Cuban expert, she believed the USA's Cuban policies were "cruel and immoral." Now at age 65, and finally released from prison in January of 2023, she still has no regrets about what she did because she still believes that the USA's Cuban policies are still "cruel and immoral." For sure...it seems that a vast majority of the people in the world, including many that disagree with what she did as a spy, agree with her.

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