RAMÓN "Ramoncito" Saúl Sánchez Rizo, the supposedly distinguished leader
                   of the Democracy Movement recently had a severe shock when officials from
                   the fearsome U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced his arrest for
                   illegal presence in the United States in accordance with new anti-terrorist
                   laws.

                   Meanwhile, killer pediatrician Orlando Bosch – described by the FBI as the
                   most dangerous terrorist in the hemisphere – continues to violate the
                   conditions for his release at any given opportunity.

                   Allowed to remain in the United States under a parole order in 1967, Sánchez
                   never dealt with his residency status in the self-proclaimed "land of the free"
                   until, with the events of September 11, he became worried about his criminal
                   history and decided to rectify the situation. In effect, new migratory
                   regulations plan to expel foreigners who have served prison sentences for
                   serious crimes.

                   On presenting his documents to the immigration authorities at the new
                   Department of Homeland Security, 49-year old Sánchez received the unhappy
                   surprise of federal agents informing him that he was going to be detained.

                   Thanks to the impunity awarded to anti-Cuban terrorists in South Florida and
                   to the interventions by his buddies in the FBI and CIA (it is presumed he must
                   have many), Sánchez was not detained for any length of time but did in fact
                   receive a date for an appearance before an immigration judge. The hearing to
                   decide whether he can maintain his residency or be expelled is set for
                   September 23.

                   The news cables announcing Sánchez’ arrest were limited to discreetly
                   mentioning just a few of the crimes for which he was arrested and jailed,
                   without elaborating on his criminal history. However, the Democracy
                   Movement leader has a past that, if he were not linked to the anti-Cuban
                   mafia (but was instead black, Puerto Rican or Muslim) would have catapulted
                   him to the country’s top security prison for the rest of his life.

                   A SHAMEFUL CAREER THAT HE PREFERS TO FORGET

                   Born in Colón in the Cuban province of Matanzas, Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo
                   was a worker in the electronics industry. His career in the service of
                   anti-Cuban terrorism began during the 1970s when he was linked to the
                   Cuban National Liberation Front and Alpha 66, two highly dangerous
                   organizations. Arrested whilst bearing arms at a training camp of the latter
                   organization, he received just one year’s imprisonment with parole from a
                   sympathetic judge.

                   In 1978, he was suspected of having participated in an attack on four U.S.
                   citizens traveling to Cuba whose plane mysteriously disappeared.

                   He was then politically active and head of the Jóvenes de la Estrella terrorist
                   organization; a group that carried out numerous actions in Miami. Amongst
                   other things, the group claimed responsibility for an explosion at the Miami
                   International Airport on October 17, 1975; something that Ramoncito would
                   prefer not to recall today.

                   The organization later became part of the Coordination of United
                   Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) under the leadership of Orlando Bosch.
                   In 1979, the FBI identified him as second in command of this group. The same
                   year, he was an accomplice in the murder of Carlos Muñiz Varela in Puerto
                   Rico.

                   He then took part in a plan to free Orestes Ruiz Hernández, who murdered
                   Cuban worker Artaignan Díaz Díaz in Mérida, Mexico. He was responsible for
                   the failed kidnapping attempt of Mexican union leader Fidel Velázquez’s son,
                   hoping to trade him for the jailed terrorist.

                   He participated in several plans to kidnap individuals in Florida, New York,
                   Venezuela and Mexico.

                   In the early months of 1980, Sánchez founded and led the terrorist group
                   Cuban Liberation Organization (OPLC) who sowed the seeds of terror until
                   1984; that organization attacked the Panamanian boat "Namucar" in the city
                   of Miami, an attack for which international terrorist Pedro Remón – currently
                   imprisoned with Luis Posada Carriles – was accused.

                   Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo also became a member of the Omega 7 terrorist
                   organization, carrying out numerous attacks throughout the decade; attacks
                   for which he received a four-year jail term in 1986 for refusing to appear
                   before a grand jury who tried, with some difficulty, to clarify exactly what
                   were the activities of this organization.

                   In 1992, he led the Cuban National Commission that, from July 1995, would
                   become known as the so-called Democracy Movement and would carry out
                   armed infiltrations into Cuba.

                   On May 2, 1995 he was momentarily detained for leading riots in Miami in
                   protest of the Migratory Agreements that were signed between the Cuban and
                   U.S. governments.

                   A NEW IMAGE FOR AN OLD THUG

                   Although he held in his power an arsenal of weapons, from then on he created
                   a new image for himself as a "human rights defender".

                   On July 13, 1995 he organized a fleet that violated Cuban territorial waters in
                   a dangerous provocation. On September 2 of the same year, he organized
                   another fleet during which one of the boats sank, killing one person.

                   Sánchez was also one of the most fanatical opponents of the return of Elián
                   González and in August 2000 was brought before a judge for unlawful
                   assembly and highway obstruction following disturbances in Miami that he
                   had contributed to provoking.

                   Meanwhile, he continued his "nautical" activities, taking advantage of any
                   given opportunity to appear before the television cameras and maintaining his
                   broad links with Alpha 66 and terrorist Calixto Campos Corona.

                   There is no doubt that the immigration authorities will display the same
                   complacency towards Sánchez Rizo that Héctor Pesquera’s FBI has towards
                   any terrorist of Cuban origin, in this city where Judge Joan Lenard even
                   expressly prohibited some of the five Cuban patriots from troubling the mafia.

                   Remembering full well the form in which international terrorist Orlando
                   Bosch continues to freely preach terrorism, openly mocking the judge who
                   insisted that the conditions for his release specified that he maintain respect for
                   the country’s laws.

                   On July 20, 1990, some hours after being freed - thanks to the personal
                   intervention of George Bush Snr. – Bosch, with tremendous arrogance, didn’t
                   lose a moment to make it clear that he was above the law. He went on to
                   participate in public calls advocating the use of terror, alongside the most
                   extremist ringleaders in Miami.

                   OMERTA IN THE PRESS

                   On May 20, 2002 in Miami, Bosch appeared in the front row of an assembly
                   convened by President George W. Bush who in a speech before the mafia of
                   his beloved county of Miami-Dade, did not use the word "terrorism" once,
                   even though the subject was omnipresent in all of his public interventions at
                   that time.

                   Whilst Sánchez Río is at liberty and waiting without the slightest
                   preoccupation for his appearance before the Department of Homeland
                   Security, and Orlando Bosch walks the streets of Miami freely amongst dozens
                   of other extremists who also enjoy protection under the law of impunity…. the
                   five Cuban patriots, who entered the U.S. specifically to thwart the plans of
                   these terrorist circles, continue to be imprisoned under discriminatory
                   conditions.

                   And with the complicity of the press that is likewise subjecting itself to the
                   infamous omerta imposed on the whole nation. (Jean-Guy Allard)