JUNTA PATRIOTICA CUBANA
P.O. BOX 350-492 4600 N. W. 7th STREET RIVERSIDE STATION MIAMI, FLORIDA 33126 MIAMI, FLORIDA 33135 Tel.: (305) 444-4318 444-4679 / 444-4670
Miami, June 7th 1984 DIRECCION NACIONAL: Presidente Dr. Manuel A. de Varona vicepresidente Julio Estorino Villalobos Tesorero Jorge Esteva Varela The Honorable
MIAMI: Mr. Ronald W. Reagan Ing. Ernestino Abreu President of the U.S.A.. Aparicio Aparicio c/o The White House Dr. Bienvenido Benach Santiago Blanco Santana Washington, D.C. 20500 Rodolfo Capote Luis Casero Guillen Dear Mr. President: Uva. A. Clavijo Dr. Angel Fernandez-Lamas Eloy Gonzalez The CUBAN PATRIOTIC COUNCIL, (Junta Patrio- Jose Gonzalez-Puente tica Cubana), the major coalition of Cuban orga Miguel Isa Carlos Lluch, Sr. nizations in exile, has been greatly concerned Orlando Manrique with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid's Dr. Manuel G. Marinas recent address to the U.S. Congress, reason for Andres Nazario Sargen Dr. Emilio Ochoa which.I sent him a letter calling certain points Dr Roberto Perez-Fernandez to his attention. Juan Perez-Franco Virgilio Perez-Lopez Armando Perez Roura Enclosed, please, find copy of the above Dr Jose Ignacio Rasco mentioned letter. Dr. Roberto rodriquez-Aragon Dr. Fernando Soto I am also enclosing copy of the letter that ATLANTA: Enrique Rodrigues we are sending to Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was CALIFORNIA: announced that he has been invited by Fidel Castro Yoel Borges to visit Cuba. ILLINOIS: Dr. G. Alsina We believe that Rev. Jackson should consi LOUISIANA: der certain points before accepting this invita Dr. A. Guitart tion. Some of those points are mentioned in our MARYLAND: letter. Dr. Luis F. Queral NEW JERSEY, Norte: Dr. Hector Wiltz Very truly yours, NEW JERSEY, Sur: E . Oviedo
NEW YORK: Dr. Manuel A. de Varona Rodolfo Urrutia President PENNSYLVANIA: Cuban PATRIOTIC council Renan Rey Former President of the Senate WASHINGTON: (1950-52) Dr. Claudio F. Benedi Former Prime Minister (1948-50) MEXICO: Dr. Eduardo Borrell-Navarro in the Republic of Cuba PUERTO RICO: Dr. Carlos Pineiro VENEZUELA: Salvador Romani Orue Vice President George Bush Members of the U.S.. Congress JUNTA PATRIOTICA CUBANA
P.O. BOX 350-492 4600 N. W. 7th STR EET RIVERSIDE STATION MIAMI, FLORIDA 33126 MIAMI, FLORIDA 33135 Tel.: (305) 444-4318 444-4679 / 444-4670 Miami, May 17, 1984 DIRECCION NACIONAL: Presidente Dr. Manuel A. de Varona VicePresidente Julio Estorino Villalobos The Honorable Miguel de Lamadrid Tesorero President of Mexico Jorge Esteva Varela The Presidential Palace Mexico, D .F. MIAMI: Ing. Ernestino Abreu Aparicio Aparicio Mr . President: Dr. Bienvenido Benach Santiago Blanco Santana Rodolfo Capote Your visit with President Reagan and your behavior Luis Casero Guillén before a joint Session of the U.S. Congress was not a Uva. A. Clavijo surprise to us. Your position against President Reagan's Dr. Angel Fernández-Lamas Eloy González efforts to bring about peace and Democracy in Central José González-Puente America is well known. You are a member of the Contadora Miguel Isa Group which is in favor of "negotiations": Which actually Carlos Lluch, Sr. Orlando Manrique intends to consolidate the Sandinista tyranny in Nicara Dr. Manuel G. Mariñas gua, -which, by the way, you helped establish-, and turn Andrés Nazario Sargén over El Salvador to the guerrillas. Contadora has not Dr. Emilio Ochoa Dr Roberto Pérez-Fernández denounced that Nicaragua is controlled by foreign powers, Juan Pérez-Franco Russia and Cuba, and that the guerrillas are armed and Virgilio Pérez-López financed by Cuba and Nicaragua. Armando Pérez-Roura Dr. José Ignacio Rasco Dr. Roberto Rodríguez-Aragón Contadora and your Government are biased, otherwise Dr. Fernando Soto the first thing they should demand is that all Cubans ATLANTA: leave Nicaragua and that the guerrillas in El Salvador Enrique Rodríguez return to Managua. CALIFORNIA: Yoel Borges ILLINOIS: Is it the historical hate of the Mexican Governments Dr. G. alsina to the United States which blindes you to the grave peril LOUISIANA: to your own country? Communism in Nicaragua, the guerril Dr. A. Guitart las in El Salvador, Colombia and Peru, Guatemala and Vene MARYLAND: venezuela, and the terrorism and consistent aggression of the Dr. Luis F. Queral Sandinistas to Costa Rica and Honduras, are a real threat NEW JERSEY, Norte: to the whole Continent, to your own country and indeed to Dr. Hector Wiltz the United States. NEW JERSEY. Sur: E. Oviedo In fact, your visit to President Reagan was simply NEW YORK: to request, in your typical insolent arrogance, financial Rodolfo Urrutia help, and to try to resolve the financial crisis and the PENNSYLVANIA: dire poverty to which your people are subjected; although Renán Rey according to the press, the friends are so embezzled in WASHINGTON: your country that help never reaches your people. Dr. Claudio F. Benedí MEXICO: Dr. Eduardo Borrell-Navarro You appeared before the U.S. Congress, -violating PUERTO RICO: all protocole- to attack President Reagan's Policy with Dr. Carlos Piñeiro the hope of dividing the Executive and Legislative powers. VENEZUELA: Your unwise remarks distorted the truth with the purpose Salvador Romaní Orue of confusing some Congressmen and insite other to rebel against the Executive to "act as a restrain against any -2 -
possible use of force in Central America", but you did not explain that the ones who are using force in that region are the guerrillas trying to destabilize those countries like they did to destabilize Nicaragua.
You failed to inform the Congress about the existing tyranny in Cuba, which enslaves and executes the people, simply, because you support that regime. And that tyranny, subservient to the Soviets, indoctrinates and arms the guerrillas in El Salvador, Co lombia, Peru, Guatemala, Chile, Venezuela, etc.
Your pose before the U.S. Congress was an intolerable inter ference in the internal affairs of the United States trying to pro voque a confrontation between the Executive and the Legislative bo dies of this Country, showing your service to the Soviet Union.
You proclaimed "tolerance for other interests, the recognition of foreign identities and respect for the wishes of others. Were you subtly referring to the wishes of the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Salvadorean people to be Communists?
The American people have always preferred reason to force, and has always used maximum restraint of power, but you can hardly ask of the United States to allow Communism to take over Central Ameri ca, and spread it to your own Country -which by the way has many vulnerable spots- so that the enemy, with your consent, may advan ce to the borders of this Country.
You do not tell the truth, Mr. President, when you try to jus tify the guerrillas "as a result of economic deficiencies, politi cal backwardness, social injustices, because Mexico suffers all those evils, worsened by the fact that there is only one party which controls all the power and the people can never freely express their sovereignty, since in you country "Democracy" is practiced by the outgoing President appointing the next President.
That situation does not create a confrontation between East and West; but the East, that is, the Communists do take advantage of it. It is nonsense to say that Communism brings about "reforms and structural changes". The changes and reforms consist in destroying the economy, enslaving the people and bring misery to any country -like in Cuba and Nicaragua, now occupied by the Soviet Union.
On the other hand, Mr. President, you suggested that the United States should accept different ideologies in the region: we could agree if such ideologies were not Marxism-Leninism which enslaves the people and dominate them by terror.
How does President de la Madrid think his people would react if he were to tell them that he accepts Marxism-Leninism?
It seems that the only thing that makes President de la Madrid happy is the continuous flow of illegal immigrants into the United States, which dollars are "a significant contribution to the devel opment of the U.S.A, and border States, and for the economy in par ticular". The truth, of course is, that the immigration is a con- - 3 -
sequence of the poverty prevailing in Mexico, because if there were enough work those unfortunate people would not have to come to the United States. But, indeed, this immigration is quite be neficial to Mexico, because besides relieving the unemployment rate there, it means a flow of hard currency that those people send back to Mexico, thus helping the Mexican economy with the natural reaction to your audacity.
I remain.
Yours truly
Presi dent CUBAN PATRIOTIC COUNCIL (Junta Patriótica Cubana) Former Leader of the Senate Majority (1950-52) Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba (1948-50)
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Trltr: /Dr, JBT OPEN LETTER TO REVEREND JESSE JACKSON
Dear Rev. Jackson
Since you have accepted Fidel Castro’s 9) You, who have criticized the alleged United invitation to travel to Cuba, why not make the States intervention in Central America, ask most of the occasion? Pose these questions to Castro why does Cuba intervene in other Castro. The world is awaiting some answers... countries internal affairs — in Central America and Africa? Why are thousands of Africans dying 1) Why, after 25 years in power, the Cuban at the hands of Cuba troops? Why are there Revolution continues to systematically violate Soviet troops in Cuba? human rights? Why have thousands of people been killed by Firing Squads? Why are Cuban 10) And... since you are going to Havana seeking jails overflowing with political prisoners — as peaceful solutions for Central America, ask him, denounced in Amnisty International’s most please, where are the tons and tons of weapons recent report -- who receive no medical attention that the Soviet Union has unloaded in Cuba’s and who, in many instances, are re-sentenced ports in the last few years, and in increasing after serving their original terms? amounts during the last weeks?
2) Why have more than one million Cubans from 11) Perhaps he can tell you, too, who is training all social stratus been forced to seek asylum in the terrorist guerrillas that are trying to other countries? Why are Cubans in foreign destabilize dem ocracy in El Salvador? embassies in the island denied the right to leave the country? What about the “desaparecidos”, 12) Why is Cuba not sending her valuable those who have lost their lives in the Florida sportsmen to the Olympics? straits trying to gain their freedom? 13) Why, in a country that sponsors International 3) Why, in a country with such a high percentage Conventions on Fashion, clothes, shoes and food of Black population, are there so very few Blacks are rationed? in top positions in the government? Why is the number of Blacks in the upper echelons of the 14) Since Castro has for years preached to the Armed Forces so low, while the percentage of Cuban people that Blacks in the United States are Blacks in prison increase dramatically? cruelly discriminated, what is he telling the people about your candidacy to the Presidency? 4) Why does Castro refuse to hold honest general elections, with the participation of a plurality of 15) Ask Castro, Rev. Jackson, to allow you to visit political parties, instead of the mock elections the Boniato and Combinado del Este jails and to with only the Communist party that has been held release those prisoners - such as Jorge Valls in Cuba? Arango, who in May 8, 1984 ended his 20 year term - who have already served their time but are 5) Why do Cuban children have to work in the still being held in prison. fields in order to get “free” (Marxist, of course) education? If you don’t get an honest answer to these questions, Rev. Jackson, perhaps you can direct 6) How many independent newspapers are there them to Elridge Cleaver (the former Black in Cuba today? Panther and Presidential candidate), who spent quite some time in Cuba and since then has 7) Why have all attempts of Cuban workers to dedicated his life to fight for democracy. create independent unions been thwarted?
8) Why have so many priests, Jehovah’s Witnesses and preachers been persecuted and Dr. Manuel A. de Varona expelled from the country? Why isn’t religious President freedom permitted in Cuba? Cuban Patriotic Council
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