Invitation to a Film Show and Discussion

cork | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Tuesday September 21, 2010 22:18 by Simon McGuinness - Cuba Support Group Ireland

THE TERRORIST WAR AGAINST CUBA

Cuba Support Group Cork holding a Film Show and Discussion with the Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, Ms Teresita Trujillo in the Imperial Hotel, Cork city on Monday 4 October at 8pm.

This is a follow up to the visit of Canadian author Keith Bolender to Ireland earlier this month to launch his book "Voices from the Other Side" which deals with the 50-year undeclared terrorist war that has been waged against the people of Cuba by the government of the United States of America, a war that has killed almost 3,500 people and maimed over 2,000.

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"Perhaps the most striking feature of Washington’s war against Cuba since it dared to liberate itself at last in 1959 has been the frenzy with which it has been waged. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs invasion soon after taking office was authorized in an atmosphere of “hysteria,” Defense Secretary Robert McNamara later testified before the Senate’s Church Committee. At the first cabinet meeting after the failed invasion, the atmosphere was “almost savage,” Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles reported, describing “an almost frantic reaction for an action program.” The core component of the “action program” was a major terrorist war. Robert Kennedy, who was assigned the task of coordinating the massive campaign of state-directed international terrorism, repeatedly declared that overthrowing the government of Cuba was “the top priority of the United States Government—all else is secondary—no time, money, effort, or manpower is to be spared.”" - Noam Chomsky, 2010

The Kennedy brothers sought to bring the “terrors of the earth” to Cuba, in the words of JFK adviser and confidant historian Arthur Schlesinger.

This film tells the story of one such terrorist attack when all 73 passengers and crew of a Cubana airliner enroute from Barbados to Havana died in an explosion. The self-admitted terrorist masterminds of this crime enjoy the protection of US President Obama, (in common with all US presidents since JFK) who has steadfastly refused an extradition request from to Venezuela.

All welcome, free admission.