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May 2, 2011

Militant Cuban Exile Orlando Bosch Dies at 84 
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The longtime Cuban exile militant Orlando Bosch has died at the age of
84. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bosch was involved in
30 acts of sabotage in the United States, Puerto Rico, Panama and Cuba
between 1961 to 1968 as part of his failed campaign to topple the Fidel
Castro government. In 1989, a Justice Department attorney said that
Bosch had been, “resolute and unwavering in his advocacy of terrorist
violence” and had repeatedly, “demonstrated a willingness to cause
indiscriminate injury and death.” Despite this finding by the Justice
Department, President George H.W. Bush overruled Bosch's deportation
order in 1990 allowing Bosch to remain free in Miami where he had lived
for the past two decades. In 2005, the late attorney Leonard Weinglass
appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss Bosch.

Leonard Weinglass: “He was a man who was convicted in Miami of firing
a bazooka at a Polish freighter in the harbor. He is a man who’s
implicated in the shoot down of the commercial aircraft, the Cuban
commercial aircraft, and he applied to have permanent residency in the
United States. Department of Justice ruled that he was not qualified,
because he’s a known terrorist. The President of the United States
overruled the Department of Justice at the insistence of his son, who
was Jeb Bush, and the President was Bush, Sr. But Mr. Bosch was given
permanent residency in the United States where he currently lives.”

A note about Leonard Weinglass: A memorial for him is taking place on
May 13 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in Manhattan. He died
in March at the age of 78.



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