12-23-05,9:14am
The support of the staff of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana became habitual and ever growing as successive White House administrations, along the last 45 years, have designed plans with one single goal: defeating the Cuban Revolution by whatever means.
All kinds of criminal acts, including sabotage, murder and other terrorist actions, even an attempt to form a fifth column within the island, have been promoted, paid for and controlled by different US governments. This fifth column is closely monitored by Washington, which contemplates its future reinforcement to achieve the goals foreseen in the Central Intelligence Agency plans to wipe the socialist system in Cuba off the map.
Nine years ago, the US diplomat Robin Diane Meyer came to Cuba as a Second Secretary in charge of the office of political and economic affairs within the U.S. Interest Section, with the set goal of creating a strong, local “trade unionism.”
Eight years later and within a few weeks of the opening of the theatrical farce, curiously named as “workers’ congress,” the Confederation of “Independent” Trade Unions, as they call it, gained notoriety. It was trumpeted in Miami and from the U.S. Interest Section, in an effort to gather support for it.
Susan Archer made the necessary arrangements for a meeting with Kaylin A. Bailey, an official of the International Program Associate of the National Policy Association, based in Washington DC.
Bailey then traveled to Cuba, with a group of students from the George Washington University, who stayed one week on the island, including a few days in Pinar del Río province, according to information given to the Confederation by that diplomatic officer.
This stage, which could well be considered the “honey moon” between the U.S. Interest Section and the “Confederation,” was marked by the holding of countless friendly meetings with the top leadership of the counter-revolutionary organization.
Ricardo Zúñiga, another official from the Interest Section in Havana in charge of political and economic affairs, used to highlight the control that the Confederation exerted over the independent trade unions, and on more than one occasion, he was heard making unfavorable comments about another organization named the Unitary Council of Cuban Workers. He once commented to his chief that “they knew very well what were the interests of those so called trade unionists, who did not even work before joining these organizations, but that what they were doing was good for democracy.” He even showed her a list of the so called trade unionists who did not work, but were registered in the Government Program for Refugees. .
Confidence in his leadership skills grew in such a way that, together with Nicholas Giacobbe, officer in charge of Press and Culture, he invited its president to give a talk to a group of eight students from Virginia University who were on a visit to the island. The main theme of the meeting, which took place in the interest section, was the violations against human rights and trade unionists in Cuba. Other well-known mercenaries, from the fields of medicine and journalism, were also there.
After having briefed them in detail according to US views of the issues, the students wanted to known more about the “repression” exerted against the “opposition” members and the role played by the Cuban Union Federation (CTC).
After the meeting and in view of the expanding work and the leadership capacity shown, the Confederation was invited to participate in the Third Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy to be held in New York. All expenses were to be paid by the National Endowment for Democracy, on the proposal of the Bush government. The central issue to be discussed there was “THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY FOR PEACE, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS” and on hand were to be representatives from political parties and allied non-governmental organizations as well as parliament members and representatives of governments interested in the issue.
The head of the US Interest Section, James Cason, was quick to pledge aid. Books, traveling documents issued by the US State Department, fax machines, cameras, video players, cell phones and thousands of dollars, were handed over in person by the active officials to make the work of their paid lackeys more humane. Links started being reinforced with those at the US Interest Section in Havana, as had previously been the case with other section heads, like Sullivan, Meyer, Kosak, all sent by their respective presidents with the same mission: to destroy us!
