Canada Spying and the Cuban Five

It has been revealed that Canada has been spying on mining and energy sectors of Brazil, in order for the mining companies at home to have the upper hand, resulting from the information provided to them.  When Prime Minister Stephen Harper was asked about spying on Brazil he stated:  "Won't comment on national security issues...".

On June 11th, 1976, Canadian mining company Falconbridge hosted the founding of the terrorist organization CORU (the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations) at its executive offices in the Dominican city of Bonao.  

Did the Canadian government ever investigate the roles, never mind consider spying on, the executives of the Canadian mining company, resulting from their decision to contribute and assist in the founding of this terrorist organization?  Orlando Bosch, one of CORU´s founders and a notorious and convicted terrorist, was responsible for a September 22nd, 1976 bombing, whereby an explosive device was lobbed from a car at the Cuban Consulate in Montreal.  CORU was also responsible for the September 18th, 1976 Washington, DC assassinations in bright daylight, of Orlando Letelier (Chile´s Foreign Minister under late Salvador Allende) and of his secretary, Ronni Moffitt.  

Cuban Ricardo Morales Navarrete (who had been head of intelligence and counterintelligence for the Venezuelan political police, the DISIP), explained that the meeting he had participated in, held in the Dominican city of Bonao (at Canadian mining company Falconbridge´s executive offices), was to plan the assassination of Orlando Letelier and “the destruction of a Cuban airliner”1 (the airliner terrorist attack was masterminded by Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles and it was carried out on October 6th, 1976, killing all 73 people on board).

Five Cubans, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, René González, Fernando González and Ramón Labañino, were arrested in September 1998, in the United States, for the "crime" of infiltrating and exposing U.S.-based terrorist groups, which included elements such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, in order to prevent terrorist attacks that were being planned and launched against Cuba from U.S. territory.  For their efforts in saving lives and combating against terrorism while only risking their own lives in the process, a Miami court convicted the five Cubans of "conspiracy to commit espionage".  

In the meantime Posada Carriles, who masterminded a series of terrorist bombings of Havana hotels in the 1990's, one of which claimed the life of Fabio di Celmo, a Montreal permanent resident, in 1997, walks freely in the United States.

We ask ourselves:

• Why didn´t the government of Canada intervene on the side of peace and justice, when the Canadian mining company Falconbridge hosted a terrorist organization?  
  
• Does the recently exposed government of Canada´s espionage mission of Brazil´s mining sector serve the purpose of facilitating more terrorist actions and/or human rights violations to be carried out by other Canadian corporate mining entities, such as Falconbridge, against Brazil and/or any other countries in Latin America?
  
• Why doesn’t the government of Canada intervene in defense of the Cuban Five and demand justice and their release from U.S. prisons, as has already been demanded throughout the past 15 years by many other governments, parliamentarians, Nobel prize winners, intellectuals, artists and simply millions of people around the globe, since all they ever did was to save lives? 
  

These are matters of national security here in Canada too, aren´t they?  After all, it seems as if though the Canadian government and Canadian authorities were either not informed or didn´t deem it important at the time, to ensure that Canadian corporations didn´t get involved with well known, self-confessed terrorists, who later placed bombs in Canada and killed a Canadian resident, amongst other attacks.  The Cuban Five were working to prevent these kinds of terrorist actions against Cuba and against Cuban interests outside of Cuba, so why isn´t Canada recognizing their incredible efforts and demanding their freedom?  

Is the Canadian government against terrorism or not?  If it´s against it, then it’s about time it takes an official stand in defense of these Five courageous men who deserve our utmost solidarity for exposing U.S.-based terrorism.

Although we invite any and all sincere investigative journalists to delve into this matter and bring forth more facts, we know that only a "JURY OF MILLIONS" will bring freedom for the anti-terrorist Cuban Five.

Morteza Gorgzadeh and Sabrina Johnson
Toronto Forum on Cuba

For more information please visit:  www.torontoforumoncuba.com, www.freethefive.org


1 “Posada Carriles walking the streets with impunity”

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