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Castro's Cuba: Conduit to Global Terrorism
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11154 |
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CURRENT ISSUES
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3 / 1986 |
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L. Francis Bouchey
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International terrorism ranks among the biggest news stories of this decade. New accounts of terrorist bombings, kidnappings, or hijackings feature prominently in the news daily.
Much of the terrorism perpetrated in the world today aims to support the geopolitical goals of the Soviet Union and its allies. The United States and its allies in this hemisphere have been among the principal targets of this international terrorist network. In order to make more effective their assault on civil order and stability in the West, Communist terror groups act in concert. The Cuban government, acting at the behest of Moscow, has been instrumental in forming and sustaining this terrorist network from its inception, twenty years ago, to the present day.
A fateful meeting
The new strategy for terrorism emerged at a gathering in Havana in 1966. During the first two weeks of that fateful year, 513 delegates representing 83 subversive organizations assembled for the First Conference for Afro-Asian-Latin American People's Solidarity in order to plan and proclaim "a global revolutionary strategy to counter the global strategy to counter the global strategy of American imperialism."
This meeting, which came to be known as the Tricontinental Conference, heralded all-out guerrilla and terrorist warfare. The plan formulated by the gathering advocated a joint strategy of violence by terrorists in the industrialized West coupled with guerrilla wars in the third world. The ultimate goal: to surround the Free World nations with hostile Communist regimes.
The Tricontinental conference was called not to initiate subversive operations but to weave together a network of terrorist and guerrilla groups in order to increase the level of violence against the United States and its allies. Significantly, the resolutions adopted at the conference called for collaboration not only between socialist countries and "national liberation movements" but also between "democratic workers and student movements" in Western Europe and North America, especially those formed to oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
Thus began the collaboration and interaction of the orthodox Communists with the eclectic new leftists who typically harbored anti-Soviet sentiments and viewed themselves as untainted by Stalinism.
With this conference, the Soviet Union, which sent the largest delegation, ended its policy of relying on national communist parties around the world and turned instead to "national liberation movements," that is, to the men with the guns.
Conveniently disregarding the official Soviet policy of "peaceful coexistence," Soviet chief delegate Sharof Rashidov promised "all-around assistance to the unification of the anti-imperialist forces of the three continents in order to provide greater impetus to our common struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism--led by the U.S. capitalists."
The greatest success of the Cubans and the Russians at the conference was the passage of resolutions damning the United States as the main enemy of Third World liberation
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