Salvadorians send donation to Cuban victims of Hurricane Matthew

[Judi Lynn]

2. This story might remind you of former days when the "exile" hard right destroyed freedom of speech

in Miami, and they used to riot and go wild when Cuban bands tried to play dates in Miami, and crowds would gather, throwing frozen cans of Coca Cola, D cell batteries, rocks, even Glad Bags filled with human excrement at bands like Los Van Van, while cursing and using obscenities at men and their companions trying to get in to see them, with occasional victims hauled off to the hospital.

So damned sick.

Here's a report Human Rights Watch published:

[center] November 1994 Vol. 6; No. 14

UNITED STATES

DANGEROUS DIALOGUE REVISITED

Threats to Freedom of Expression Continue
in Miami's Cuban Exile Community [/center]

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 2
"THE NATION AND EMIGRATION" CONFERENCE................................................... 2
AFTER THE CONFERENCE: HARASSMENT AND INTIMIDATION........................ 3
Death and Bomb Threats........................................................................................ 4
The Bombing of Réplica Magazine........................................................................ 5
Verbal Assault........................................................................................................ 5
Act of Repudiation ................................................................................................ 6
Vandalism.............................................................................................................. 6
Economic Reprisals and Blacklisting..................................................................... 7
THE ROLE OF RADIO...................................................................................................... 7
THE RESPONSE OF THE GOVERNMENT .................................................................... 8
Law Enforcement ................................................................................................... 8
Government Leaders .............................................................................................. 8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................... 9

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/US94N.PDF

[center]~ ~ ~



From the Miami Herald.



Emilio Milián's car



Years after, Miami commissioners named a street for him.



"Emilio Milian lost his legs in a 1976 car bombing allegedly by one of the men -- Gaspar Jimenez -- now accused of attempting the same thing on Fidel Castro; Miami Bishop Agustin Roman wants "mercy" for Jimenez

COURTESY OF MILIAN FAMILY"





"Have mercy, have mercy, baby, have mercy, have mercy on me. Signed, Gaspar Jimenez."[/center]

How far did Miami come from the 1976 attempted assassination of Emilio Milián and this story I found by accident on the vicious battering of Cuban blogger in Miami, Pepe Varela?

Remember, this kind of news traditionally never gets out of Miami. It has always happened with a complete veil of secrecy surrounding these hideous bombings, shootings, and assassinations. It has never escaped the awareness of the FBI, however, who named Miami as "America's Murder Capital" during the 1980's.