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May 14, 2007
Nervous in the Sweet Air of Freedom in Havana
A striking movie scene occurs in The Falcon and the Snowman, when two U.S. spies for the Soviet Union cross back into the US, where the Federal agents are eagerly awaiting. One slams one of the spies (played by Tim Hutton, maybe?) and snarls, "You f'ing traitor!" (If I recall the movie incorrectly, straighten me out).
An article in the International Herald Tribune about American criminals livin' la vida loca in Cuba reminded me of that scene. It seems these are nervous days for the cop killers and hijackers who left this fascist hellhole for the sweet air of socialist freedom in Cuba.
Consider the case of one "Assata Shakur, formerly Joanne Chesimard, a leader of the Black Liberation Army, who is one of the most notorious of the fugitives."
She has a $1 million bounty on her head in the killing of a New Jersey state trooper in 1973. She once listed her number in the Havana phone book, under her new name, but now lives out of view and under the protection of the Cuban authorities.What spooked her is not clear. One U.S. official who was based in Havana said he once stuck a wanted poster into her fence, just to let her know that her case was not forgotten.
However much the fugitives wish that their pasts would fade away, reminders crop up. Fugitives here know that their cases are raised every year in the State Department's terrorism reports. In the latest one, issued in April, Washington accused Cuba of harboring and aiding terrorists from Spain and Colombia, as well as fugitive Black Panthers and Puerto Rican independence militants.
So it sounds like they're a little on edge in Havana that the long arm of American justice might somehow reel them back to the Motherland. Perhaps they've seen The Falcon and the Snowman and have a sense of what kind of welcoming committee they might expect.
If they believe in God, their nightly prayer might be, "Please, oh Lord, let thy servant Fidel Castro live unto eternity!"
Van | 05/14/07 at 10:53 PM | Categories: - From Sea to Shining Sea
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They can run and hide, but situations change. Cuba is about to change when Fidel goes to Big Rock Candy Mountain. I would be nervous too if I wer any of these fugitives.
All it takes is a short trip to Caracus, Venezuela when Castro finally croaks.
That fat punk Chavez has a long road ahead of him
(and so does his poor people).
Rob | May 19, 2007 09:22 AM
Sean Penn actually hired the traitor and drug dealer he played in the film, Andrew Dalton Lee, as his personal assitant. Why am I not surprised.
Rob | May 22, 2007 06:02 PM
Sean Penn actually hired the traitor and drug dealer he played in the film, Andrew Dalton Lee, as his personal assitant. Why am I not surprised.
Rob | May 22, 2007 06:02 PM
