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Castro's Cuba: Conduit to Global Terrorism
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CURRENT ISSUES
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3 / 1986 |
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L. Francis Bouchey
Francis Bouchey is president of the Council for Inter-American
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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
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