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Luis Posada Carriles: Un Engendro Incondicional De La CIA Percy Francisco Alvarado G Luis Posada Carriles: Un engendro incondicional de la CIA Percy Francisco Alvarado G. Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy (“Fraile”) nació en Escuintla, Guatemala, el 18 de julio de 1954. Se graduó en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de La Habana. Es profesor, escritor y periodista, y colabora en diversos sitios alternativos. Miembro del Consejo Editorial de Cubadebate. Trabajó como colaborador secreto de la Seguridad Cubana durante 22 años, enfrentando a grupos terroristas radicados en Miami. Ha publicado Confesiones de Fraile: Una historia real de terrorismo, Reflexiones de un antiterrorista, Cuan- do los dioses se hicieron hombres y De terroristas y Canallas. Ha escrito dos novelas y un poemario en proceso de publicación. Poner al desnudo la actividad terrorista de Luis Posada Carriles se ha convertido en una de sus ta- reas. Conoció a este criminal, quien lo adiestró en el manejo de explosivos para que los colocara, supues- tamente, en el Cabaret habanero Tropicana, con lo cual se pretendía asesinar impunemente a centenares de turista extranjeros. Desde luego, éste y otros tene- brosos planes fueron desarticulados con la ayuda del también conocido Agente “Fraile”. Sus libros y artí- culos de denuncia sobre el terrorismo tienen la fuerza de salir no de la pluma de un simple espectador de los hechos que pone al desnudo, sino de alguien que los vivió directamente y que convivió con los crimi- nales a los que señala con dedo acusador. Portada-UN SOLDADO.indd 1 15/2/11 16:18:26 | NOTA ACLARATORIA | Percy Francisco Alvarado G. Colección TILDE Al terminarse este libro se precipitaron algunos acontecimientos relacionados con Posada Carriles y sus cómplices. CORREO DEL ORINOCO Aún se realiza en El Paso, Texas, el bochornoso proceso contra Alcabal a Urapal, Edificio Dimase, La Candelaria, Caracas-Venezuela www.correodelorinoco.gob.ve este afamado terrorista, en el que solo se le juzga por mentir ante las autoridades migratorias norteamericanas sobre su ingreso ilegal a Estados Unidos. Poco se espera de esta farsa y es muy posible que la impunidad prevalezca otra vez. Su largo prontuario criminal, ex- puesto en este libro, será ignorado deliberadamente por la “justicia” estadounidense. Posada ha burlado reiteradamente las condiciones de su libertad condicional, apareciendo públicamente con total desfachatez en acti- vidades anticubanas. Nadie ha, ni siquiera, recriminado al terrorista por estas violaciones. Uno de sus principales cómplices, Francisco Chávez Abarca, fue capturado en Venezuela y deportado hacia Cuba, donde fue juzgado por su participación en la oleada de atentados con bomba en Cuba durante el año 1997. Hoy purga una condena de 30 años de privación de libertad. Por otra parte, Santiago Álvarez Fernández Magriñá, protector de Posada y quien facilitó su ingreso en Miami, ha sido excarcelado luego de cumplir una irrisoria condena por su posesión de un abundante arsenal de armas y explosivos, junto a Osvaldo Mitat. Corrección Como apreciará el lector, la ceguera cómplice de las autoridades Iris Yglesias norteamericanas parece no tener en cuenta el pasado terrorista de Diseño y Diagramación Arturo Cazal estos malévolos engendros de la CIA. Ingrid Rodríguez Depósito legal: lf2692011320610 Rif: G-20009059-6 Enero, 2011. Impreso en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Dedicatoria A las víctimas y familiares de los crímenes de Luis Posada Carriles A quienes como Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando, Ramón y René han entregado su vida por enfrentar a criminales como él A mis hijos Agradecimientos A Jean Guy Allard, Héctor Silva, Joel Cazal y muchos otros, por su ayuda incondicional | DATOS SOBRE EL AUTOR | Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy nació en Escuintla, Guatemala, el 18 de julio de 1949. Fungió durante 22 años como colaborador secreto de los órganos de la Seguridad del Estado de la República de Cuba, recibiendo diversas felicitaciones, condecoraciones y reconocimientos de la jefatura por los logros en el enfrentamiento a servicios enemigos y a la contrarre- volución en Miami. Se infiltró en varias organizaciones terroristas radi- cadas en el exterior, estableciendo contacto directo con terroristas como Luis Posada Carriles, Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, Francisco José Hernán- dez Calvo, Arnaldo Monzón Plasencia, Luis Zúñiga Rey. Contribuyó a desarticular decenas de planes terroristas contra Cuba, entre ellos la voladura del famoso cabaret Tropicana. Es graduado en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad de la Habana y ha cursado varios cursos de postgrado. Es profesor invitado en varias institu- ciones universitarias. Actualmente labora como periodista, escribiendo más de cuatro cen- tenares de artículos de análisis y denuncia en sitios alternativos como Rebelión, Cubadebate, Aporrea, Adital, Alainet, Visiones Alternativas y muchos otros, entre ellos varios órganos de la prensa cubana e interna- cional. Ha recibido diversas condecoraciones y reconocimientos por su labor como articulista. Es miembro del consejo editorial del sitio web Cubadebate, del Grupo de Periodistas contra el Terrorismo y del Comité Internacional para la liberación de los Cinco Héroes. Ha publicado los siguientes libros: • Confesiones de Fraile: Editorial Capitán San Luis, La Habana, 2003. Introducción (Traducida en Inglés e italiano. Se prepara su edición en griego). • Reflexiones de un antiterrorista: Editorial Abril, La Habana, 2004 • Cuando los dioses se volvieron Hombres: Editorial Abril, 2005 • De terroristas y canallas: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, La Haba- na, 2007. Se encuentran en proceso de edición varias de sus obras, que incluyen: • 15 Razones, (poemario). • Sobreviviendo entre el dolor y la ternura, novela. • Aquí las tardes son más grises, novela. Se encuentra en proceso de preparación: • Las batallas ideológicas en el siglo XXI. • Historias de agentes. INTRODUCCIÓN udoroso e inseguro, temiendo enredarse en sus propias falacias, Sel actual director del FBI, Robert Mueller, dijo ante una comisión del Senado, el 20 de mayo 2004, que la Ley USA Patriot de 2001 es una herramienta antiterrorista vital que se necesita para proteger a los norteamericanos de futuros ataques terroristas. Trataba, de esta forma, de bendecir ante los congresistas un instrumento legal legí- timamente vilipendiado como violatorio de los derechos humanos de los estadounidenses y darle un espaldarazo más al neomacartismo implementado por la administración Bush. Más adelante, defendiendo la prolongación de la validez de esta ley por un nuevo año y, por ende, mantener un tiempo más este instrumento legal que reforzaba el papel de su organización dentro de los Estados Unidos, expresó ante un grupo de periodistas que lo asediaron al salir del Senado: “Muchos de nuestros éxitos contra el terrorismo, en realidad, son resultado directo de las disposiciones incluidas en la ley, varias de las cuales se vencen a finales del año próximo. Yo creo firmemente que es vital para nuestra seguridad nacional mantener intactas cada una de estas disposiciones”. Paradójicamente, y demostrando las incongruencias de su apli- cación en dependencia de las finalidades políticas de sus creadores, la Ley USA Patriot fue escandalosamente burlada unos meses des- pués por dos hechos precedentes y contradictorios en este contexto, adoptados con claros fines reeleccionistas, y que distinguen las controvertidas posiciones de la Casa Blanca hacia el terrorismo. El primero de ellos lo fueron las medidas adoptadas por la agencia de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP), una de las divisiones del omnipotente Departamento de Seguridad del 11 Percy Francisco Alvarado Godoy Luis Posada Carriles : Un engendro incondicional de la CIA Territorio Nacional, para incrementar la vigilancia en la ya super en otros casos más, sin que nadie en la gran nación levante un dedo protegida frontera sur, con el fin de impedir que los terroristas la condenatorio. usen como punto de entrada a los Estados Unidos. El otro hecho, A Cuba, la eterna víctima, pero insolente en su permanente contradictorio y cuestionable en grado sumo, que puso en tela de apuesta por un mundo mejor, la han afectado en todo este tiempo, juicio al antiterrorismo norteamericano fue el ingreso ilegal por vía promovidos desde los EEUU y aupados por sus administraciones, marítima de Luis Posada Carriles en marzo de 2005, apenas un año más de 1500 actos terroristas, sin contar los cerca de 700 planes después de las declaraciones de Mueller. Para colmo, el 26 de agosto de atentado contra Fidel y otros dirigentes cubanos. Los terroristas de 2004, tres meses más tarde de las declaraciones del director del anticubanos radicados en Miami y New Jersey han recibido asilo, FBI, entraron al territorio norteamericano tres terroristas de origen protección, entrenamiento, financiamiento, reconocimiento y apoyo cubano excarcelados arbitrariamente por la ex presidenta panameña durante todo este tiempo por los propios gobernantes norteamerica- Mireya Moscoso. Protegidos por una oscura trama de complicidades, nos, quienes se retratan con ellos y los reciben en los fastuosos salones viejos compromisos y desvergonzada confabulación, Guillermo de la Casa Blanca. No ha habido pudor al codearse y congraciarse con Novo Sampoll, Pedro Crispín Remón Rodríguez y Gaspar Jiménez estos criminales, por el contrario, su imagen ha sido mediáticamente Escobedo fueron recibidos como héroes en Miami, a pesar de su transfigurada y vendida, por obra y gracia de la conveniencia política, largo prontuario terrorista y de haber usado pasaportes falsos para como “luchadores por la libertad”.
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