another country, then after it was forced to promise it wouldn't be officially invading that country again, proceed to conduct a non-stop campaign of terrorism against the country for the next 50 years? Now, THAT'S hostile.
Speaking of deadly substances delivered to innocent, defenseless creatures, how about that Cuban "exile" Eduardo Arocena, who was involved in killing a Cuban UN diplomat on the streets of New York City, who, during his own murder trial, admitted he had carried in chemical weapons of destruction to harm Cubans personally? He was involved in multiple acts of terrorism from his safe refuge in the United States.
A very tiny look at this expression of esteem conducted by the US:
In 1971 the first documented cases of swine fever in the western hemisphere showed up in Cuba. A CIA agent later admitted that he had been instructed to deliver the virus to Cuban exiles in Panama, who carried the virus into Cuba in March of 1991. This astounding admission received scant attention in the US press.
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In 1981, Fidel Castro blamed an outbreak of dengue fever in Cuba on the CIA. The fever killed 188 people, including 88 children. In 1988, a Cuban exile leader named Eduardo Arocena admitted "bringing some germs" into Cuba in 1980.
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In 1996, the Cuba government again accused the US of engaging in "biological aggression". This time it involved an outbreak of thrips palmi, an insect that kills potato crops, palm trees and other vegetation. Thrips first showed up in Cuba on December 12, 1996, following low-level flights over the island by US government spray planes. The US has been unable to quash a United Nations investigation of the incident that is now underway.
More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/germwar.htmlTrial Transcript:
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http://media.miaminewtimes.com.nyud.net:8090/let-terrorist-eduardo-arocena-go.2569067.51.jpgBiological war waged by the US against Cuba
--1962 A US intelligence agent is known to have given several thousand dollars to a Canadian to introduce a disease infecting Cuban sea-turtles.
--1965 A plastic balloon descends on a farm in Santiago de las Vegas. When it hits the ground it expels a white dust that spreads to cane plantation which is later destroyed.
--1968 A foreign specialist working for an international agency is expelled after he is confirmed to have introduced a virus affecting coffee crops.
--1970 The US is caught seeding clouds over Cuba in an attempt to affect the sugar harvest. The project was part of a larger research plan called "The Cooling" which was intended to devise ways of manipulating the weather for political reasons.
--1971 African swine fever is introduced. The Cubans claim that the container transporting the virus came from Fort Gullick, a US military base in the Panama Canal Zone. Those involved in this attack have since testified to their part. The entire pig population of Cuba had to be slaughtered.
--1977 Cane smut is detected in Pilón, eastern Cuba. The disease had never been known in Cuba until this date.
--1978: A previously unknown variety Blue mould hits the sugar crops causing losses of approximately 344 million pesos.
--1978: Sugar cane rust affects a new variety of cane imported from Barbados. As a result 1.35 million tonnes of sugar are lost.
--1979-80 Two different strains of African swine fever are discovered emanating from distinct areas of contamination. 300,00 pigs are slaughtered.
--1981 A previously unknown Bovine skin disease erupts affecting young cows and bullocks throughout the island.
--1981 A sudden outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever affects 350,000 people. 158 people, including children, die from the disease. The disease is later discovered to be exactly the same strain of the disease which caused an outbreak in New Guinea in 1924 but no others in the world except the Cuban case. The outbreak had three initial breeding grounds in Cienfuegos and Camagüey, all very close to international air corridors. Just prior to the outbreak it was discovered that the entire personnel at the Guantanamo naval base had been vaccinated against dengue. As a result there was not a single case of the disease in the base.
--1981 Haemorraghic conjunctivitis caused by the Enterovirus 70 strain spreads throughout the island. The Pan American Health Organisation is baffled because this strain had never been seen in the entire hemisphere before.
--1982 The US magazine Covert Action, August 6, 1982, suggests the dengue outbreak might have been a CIA plot.
--1984 Eduardo Arocena, a counter-revolutionary of Cuban origin and head of the Omega-7 terrorist organisation, stands trial in the US accused of the murder of Felix Garcia Rodriguez, a Cuban diplomat to the UN. Arocena confesses to having introduced 'germs' into Cuba as part of the US biological war against Cuba. He affirms that the dengue outbreak was introduced by terrorist groups into the island.
--1984 An outbreak of dysentery causes the death of 18 children in Guantánamo province. Investigators pin down the start of the outbreak to two workers who had participated in a festive activity inside the Guantánamo naval base. The disease was again of a type previously unknown in Cuba.
--1985 An infectious bronchitis poultry virus seriously disrupts egg production.
--1989 Ulcerative mammillitis in dairy cattle caused by a herpes virus spreads throughout the island affecting milk yields.
--1990 Black sigatoka, infects banana plantations throughout the island. Once again the disease had been hitherto unknown on the island. The disease appeared precisely as Cuba began to put plans into action to start intensive banana production.
--1991 Acariasis disease which affects bees is discovered, just as Cuban honey is started to be exported.
--1991 30,000 tobacco seedlings are discovered to be 15per cent infected with fusorio which once in the soil means tobacco production has to be halted for three years.
--1992 Black plant louse which carries a citrus disease known as tristeza (sadness) is discovered.
--1994 Citric sapper blight is found in Pinar del Rio and Camagüey.
--1993 122,135 rabbits have to be slaughtered after an outbreak of a viral disease.
--1995 February 10. A camera case in the luggage of a visiting US scientist is found to contain four small test tubes of a biological substance. On examination it is discovered to be the citric tristeza virus.
--1995 Coffee borer discovered in Granma province. Losses of 80 per cent were attributed to it and considerable resources have had to be spent on containing it.
--1996 Varroasis, another bee disease is diagnosed in three apiaries in Matanzas. Previously unknown in Cuba, this disease is the worst of all affecting honey production.
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