The Cuban filmmaker Ernesto Fundora reacted to the formal charges against Raúl Castro announced last Wednesday in Miami, calling them "formidable," while warning that the former dictator "was always a killer," long before the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996.
Fundora made these statements in an interview with Tania Costa, days after being physically assaulted by Mexican communists during the presentation of his documentary about Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara in Mexico City.
"This guy isn't a great killer since Brothers to the Rescue. This guy was the one who hanged the most people when the Rebel Army was around," stated the filmmaker.
To support his argument, Fundora cited the book How Night Came by Commander Huber Matos, who described Raúl Castro during the guerrilla as the guerrilla fighter who was impeccably dressed and starched, who participated less in combat, but was the most willing to hang and execute people.
"This man was the biggest coward in the Rebel Army. He was always a murderer," Fundora stated.
Regarding the legal and political value of the accusation, the filmmaker explained that "the United States always needs to create that legal framework of legal legitimization for any step it is going to take," and considered that the indictment will open a process that will go far beyond Castro himself.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed charges against Raúl Castro last Wednesday at the Freedom Tower in Miami, including conspiracy to assassinate U.S. nationals and four individual charges of homicide for the downing of planes on February 24, 1996, which resulted in the deaths of Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales.
Fundora predicted that the case will begin to "splash" onto other actors of the Latin American left, mentioning the former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, his frontman Álex Saab, who was recently extradited to the U.S., and the former president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Alex Saab, identified as the financial operator of the Venezuelan regime, arrived in Miami last Saturday after being handed over by Venezuela, just three days before the charges against Castro were announced.
According to Fundora, Maduro, Saab, Raúl Castro, and AMLO make up "the four legs of the table" on which there is said to be "a very well-organized international operation of Latin American leftists" linked to drug trafficking, arms sales, and human trafficking.
The interviewer and the filmmaker referred to the attack he suffered days earlier in Mexico, noting that the assailants, militants of the Mexican Communist Party and supporters of the Havana regime, wanted to prevent the screening of the documentary about Luis Manuel Otero made by Fundora. The screening was ultimately completed in front of more than 80 attendees despite the violence.
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