 October 6, 1976, Crime of Barbados. Terrorist attack on Cubana de Aviación flight CU-455. Forbidden to forget! |
Cubans pay tribute today to the 73 victims of the terrorist attack on a Cuban airplane in mid-flight that occurred 47 years ago and whose perpetrators have never been tried for the crime.
Havana, Cuba.- The date is commemorated with a traditional march at Colon Cemetery in this capital, where a mausoleum was built in their memory.
The crime of Barbados, as the explosion of the Cubana de Aviación aircraft is known, is considered one of the most brutal acts of terrorism perpetrated against the Cuban Revolution by people at the service of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Orchestrated by notorious terrorists Luis Posada Carriles (1928-2018) and Orlando Bosch (1926-2011), the action killed 24 members of the Cuban junior fencing team who were returning to their country after competing at the 4th Central American and Caribbean Fencing Championship, held in Venezuela.
An estimated 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese, and five citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were killed in that explosion.
October 6 is officially considered the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism in Cuba. The date was chosen precisely to pay homage to the victims on this date, whose perpetrators had proven links to the CIA.
Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the list of terrorist actions conducted by the United States to harm Cuba has grown. It includes economic, military, biological, psychological, diplomatic, media, espionage aggressions, and assassination attempts against leaders.
According to press reports, at least 3,478 Cubans have died, and 2,099 other people were maimed for life due to violent plans against Cuba.
The Cuban Embassy in Washington was recently the scene of a new terrorist attack when an individual threw two Molotov cocktails at the diplomatic headquarters.
On Thursday, diplomatic representatives from Guyana, Barbados, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Trinidad and Tobago paid tribute to the victims of the Barbados crime with several activities held in Havana. (PL)
