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RADIO HAVANA CUBA4S VIEWPOINT
Tuesday, 4 January 2000


The new and dangerous provocation carried out by a pirate aircraft that
took off from the Opalocka Air Force Base in Florida and violated Cuban
territorial airspace has once again called into question Washington's
ability to control these kinds of actions.

The event took place on Saturday, January 1st, and was closely monitored by
Cuban anti-aircraft defense.  This time, there could be no doubt that the
provocation occurred within Cuban airspace and not over international waters
as U.S. authorities alleged in February 1996, when two aircraft of the
counterrevolutionary organization "Brothers to the Rescue" were shot down
by the Cuban Air Force.

The author of this latest incident was a Vietnamese-born U.S. citizen and
also a former pilot of South Vietnam's air force.  The U.S. war of
aggression and South Vietnamese puppet troops killed some four million
people during the long war waged against that Southeast Asian nation.

It is not even worth repeating the absurd and crazy text of the tens of
thousands of leaflets dropped from the aircraft over the Cuban capital on
Saturday by this Vietnamese pilot.

However, it is very curious that for the first time in 41 years, the U.S.
State Department quickly disapproved of the action which was certainly not
the
first and who knows if it will be the last of its kind against Cuba.

No one should be surprised if it is revealed someday that those who
paid for this new violation of Cuban airspace were the same gangsters
and terrorists of the so-called Cuban-American National Foundation.  They
have made no comment, but they have obviously been angered by huge and
constant mass demonstrations in Cuba demanding the return of six-year-old
Elian Gonzalez, illegally held in Miami against his father's wishes.

Such terrorist actions do not frighten the Cuban people, whose fight will
continue until Washington changes its anti-Cuba policy and steps are finally
taken toward a fair and rational normalization of bilateral relations.


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