The Cuban government has announced the capture of three Cuban-American terrorists from Miami, a small victory in its efforts to stop ongoing terrorist attacks against the revolutionary island country.
State security official Manuel Hevia told a television audience on June 20 that a month earlier, on April 26, Ihosvanni Suris de la Torre, Santiago Padron Quintero and Maximo Pradera Valdes, all from Miami, were sighted in a speedboat off the northern coast of central Villa Clara Province.
Hevia said that following a chase and an exchange of gunfire, the three were arrested on a small key where they tried to hide. Their speedboat was carrying weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, night-vision goggles and a sniper rifle with telescope and silencer.
Hevia said the detained belong to the Miami-based terrorist organisations F-4 and Alpha 66, which both have close ties to the ultra-rightwing Cuban-American National Foundation.
Since 1959, close to 3500 Cubans have been killed in terrorist attacks organised in the United States, with 2200 left incapacitated from their wounds.
Hevia said that since 1990 alone, Cuban authorities have either learned of or frustrated 16 assassination plots against Fidel Castro, eight assassination plots against other leaders of the Cuban Revolution, and more than another 140 terrorist actions.
[From Radio Havana Cuba.]