Terror, not just the Blockade, Targets Cuba

      Today is October 6th of 2023. On October 6th of 1976 this civilian Cuban airplane -Cubana Flight 455 was bombed out of the sky by a terrorist bomb, killing all 73 people aboard. Today 11.2 million Cubans are remembering that day.

     History registers the fact that Cubana Flight 455 was returning to Cuba before it was bombed into the ocean near Barbados. The photo above shows a sister and mother that was waiting at the airport for their brother and son to return on Cubana Flight 455; he was one of the two dozen teenage athletes returning home after winning Gold Medals in the Central American Sports Tournament in Caracas. The photo above shows the moment on October 6-1976 that this sister and mother learned that Cubana Flight 455 had crashed into the ocean and that "there are no survivors."  

     Every October 6th since 1976 Cubans on the island have had ceremonies across their island mourning the 73 souls that died on Cubana Flight 455. Of course, that mother and sister, for the rest of their lives, were among the mourners.

    In the sad days after October 6th-1976 the Cuban people were told by Fidel Castro that Cuba's meticulous investigation of the Cubana Flight 455 crash revealed that Miami-based Cuban terrorists were responsible for the terror bomb that doomed Cubana Flight 455. Later...declassified U. S. documents revealed that the United States also was well aware that Fidel Castro was correct.

     Yes, by the time Fidel Castro was telling the Cuban people what had happened to Cubana Flight 455, and he had put up memorials to the victims such as the one above, the United States had the same information that Fidel Castro had.

        For example, the de-classified U. S. document shown above shows that President G. H. W. Bush's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was informed by U. S. intelligence that Luis Posada Carriles and other Cubans had roles in "the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8..." 

     Of course, today -- on October 6-2023 -- as Cubans in Cuba mourn the 73 victims on Cubana Flight 455 who died on October 6-1976 -- they are also reminded that those who Fidel Castro and Henry Kissenger, etc., believed were responsible continued to live out their lives as celebrated heroes in Miami.

     Also today -- on October 6-2023, the anniversary of the October 6th-1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455 -- Cubans are reminded that the terrorist bombings of Revolutionary Cuba began almost as soon as the Cuban Revolution ousted the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959. History, for example, knows that the French ship La Coubre was bombed in Havana on March 4th-1960 and that Havana's finest department store El Encanto was bombed into oblivion on April 13-1961...etc., etc. Like Cubana Flight 455, La Cubre, El Encanto, etc., are historic names but, of course, Americans are not supposed to make a Google search of such names, or on October 6th-2023 Americans should not ask WHY the United States has Cuba on its List of Nations that SPONSOR TERRORISM!!

    But today -- on October 6-2023 -- Cubans are remembering what happend to Cubana Flight 455 on October 6-1976.

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