Saturday, February 01, 2003

ONE MAN'S FREEDOM FIGHTER IS ANOTHER'S TERRORIST
Rebel Venezuelan officer discovered training US-Cuban mercenaries in Florida's Everglades.
(But You Can't Even Carry A Pen Knife On An Airplane Or Ride Down The Highway In Peace.)
Reports published in the Wall Street Journal and on Cuba's Granma news service claim that rebel Venezuelan military officer Captain Luis Eduardo Garcia is training groups of Cuban-Americans in the art of military warfare at a firing range in the Everglades swamps. Fifty men are receiving training, of which 30 are Cuban Americans and the rest Miami-based dissidents and radicals. The move comes following the signing of a pact between Garcia's Venezuelan Patriotic Front and and the anti-Castro F-4 organization and their formation of a civil-military alliance. Garcia was heavily involved in the April 11 coup d'etat against the government of President Hugo Chavez Frias. The Wall Street Journal goes on to say that the two groups are committed to uniting their "combined military experience and exchanging espionage information."

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