Leaders pay respects to crash victims (jetliner blown up by Carriles)

Leaders pay respects to crash victims
Published on: 12/9/05.

AGAINST the backdrop of a beautiful sunset reflected on the calm waters of the west coast, four heads of state paid their respects yesterday to those who died in the Cubana Airlines aircraft crash off Barbados in 1976.

One after another, St Lucia's Prime Minister Dr Kenny D. Anthony; President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana; Cuba's President Dr Fidel Castro then Prime Minister Owen Arthur, each solemnly laid a wreath at the step of the monument set up at Paynes Bay, St James, commemorating the deaths of the 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese, and five North Korean businessmen.

The high-security ten-minute ceremony was attended by many Cuban ministers, recently re-elected Prime Minister of St Vincent Dr Ralph Gonsalves and local Government ministers.

Without any speeches and very little fuss, two minutes of silence were observed as a mark of respect for the 73 victims, which was followed by the playing of the steelpan rendition of the Guyanese National Anthem and the Cuban Anthem which was sung by every Cuban in attendance.

http://www.nationnews.com/story/1619340099025.php

This story was originally posted in LBN using Prensa Latina as a source. A DUer complained about the source.

Thank you to JohnyCanuck for finding an English source!

FUCK Bush and anyone that supports the sob!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x178372

from contests in Central America, many teenagers, as well as Guyanese medical students, etc., etc.

That's quite an accomplishment: the very first mid-air bombing of an airliner. The Cuban exile community has so much to be proud of. :sarcasm:

It's a filthy reality that George H. W. _Bush gave an administrative pardon to one of the planners, Orlando Bosch, although his own Attorney General's office had refused to allow him into the country, and was trying to deport him.

It's also a damned shame the son is currently sheltering the other planner, Luis Posada Carriles from Venezuelan justice, where he was once in charge of Venezuelan secret police, and sent prisoners to be tortured, as per witness accounts now on record.

What a nasty mess the Republican right-wing has made all over this hemisphere. Loathesome people.