[NYTr] Puerto Ricans Commemorate Victims of 1976 Terrorist Bombing of Cubana Aircraft

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El Nuevo Dia - Oct 7, 2007
http://www.elnuevodia.com
http://tinyurl.com/yuryw6

Puerto Ricans Commemorate Victims of the 1976 Terrorist Bombing 
of Cubana Airlines Flight 455

By Carmen Arroyo Colon

With a march through Old San Juan which ended in front of the Old U.S.
Federal Court House, Puerto Ricans commemorated the 31st anniversary of
the 1976 terrorist bombing of Cubana Airlines where 73 people were
killed.

The march was sponsored by  Movimiento Independentista Nacional
Hostosiano (MINH), el Frente Socialist, Comite de los Cinco y los
Amigos de la Nacion de Puerto Rico en Cuba.

Dozens of people walked the streets of Old San Juan with posters and
photos of the victims of the 1976 bombing.

Attracted by the march , tourists took photos. The people who called the
most attention were three men with face masks of Julio Labatut,  a
Cuban businessman who recently died and who is linked to the
1978 assassination of pro independence advocate Carlos Muniz Varela.

A political meeting and action of rememberance and solidarity for the 5
Cubans inprisoned in the US took place in front of the old US Court
House.

Reverenda Eunice Santana; Lillian Aponte, from the Frente Socialista;
and Alejandro Torres, of  MINH spoke. Puerto Rican singer Flora
Santiago performed.

"The purpose of the march was to denounce the hypocracy of the United
States in its war to "combate terrroism".  The U.S. authorities
freed the confessed intelectual author of the 1976 plan bombing Luis
Posada Carriles. Another purpose was to show our solidarity
with the Five Cuban political prisoners in U.S. jails", said Leonardo
Cruz, of MINH

Also present at the march and meeting were Elma Beatriz Rosado the
widow of slane Puerto Rican independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos,
and ex political prisoner Rafael Cancel Miranda.