[News] 45th Anniversary of CIA Terrorist Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 in Barbados

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45th
Anniversary of Terrorist Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 in Barbados
October 6, 2021
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Left: Commander in Chief Fidel Castro embraces Carlos Alberto Cremata, son
of one of the victims of the terrorist attack and president of the
Committee of Relatives of the Victims of the Cubana 455 terrorist attack,
in front of the monument commemorating the victims. Barbados, December 7,
2005. Photo: Ismael Francisco

Today marks 45 years since U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
operatives carried out the terrorist bombing of Cubana de Aviación flight
455, a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica.

73 people were killed in the bombing attack on the flight which departed
from Guyana, with destination to Havana, via the islands of Trinidad and
Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica.

Various aviation agencies and the Cuban government determined that the
airliner was blown up in midair with the detonation of two explosives which
had been placed on the airplane, killing all passengers and crew members of
the aircraft which plummeted into the sea off the coast of Paynes Bay,
Barbados.

The innocent victims included 11 citizens of Guyana, 5 of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea and the entire Cuban Olympic fencing team were
among 57 Cubans who were murdered on October 6, 1976.

The government and people of Cuba continue to demand justice for the
victims of this horrendous crime, and continues to speak out against
international terrorism. In defending its independence and sovereignty,
Cuba has been victim to terrorist attacks which have taken the lives of
3,478 people and injured 2,099 people.

For years, the U.S. protected CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando
Bosch, and other the exiled terrorists who dodged extradition, while living
comfortably in Florida. Posada Carriles died in a Florida hospital in 2018
at the age of 90 having been afforded total immunity for this and numerous
other terrorist bombings and attacks against the Cuban Revolution and
innocent people.

While the United States places its enemies on a list of State Sponsors of
Terrorism, it’s Washington that has been linked to acts of terror across
the world.

The Cuban Barbadian Friendship Association has organized a Regional
Solidarity Online Rally to be held on the evening of the anniversary.
Messages of solidarity will be shared by trade unionists, peace activists,
and friends of Cuba in the Caribbean and North America. Participating
organizations will include: Trinidad and Tobago Friends of Cuba, World
Peace Council, ANAP (Cuba), Israel Lovell Foundation, USA Peace Council,
Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, ICAP (Cuba), and For Victory
of the People (Guyana), among others.

As Fidel said, there is no worse punishment for the terrorists than “the
Revolution itself, its efforts, its successes, its victorious march.”
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