Take a Good Look: This is the face that was supposed to bring Castro to his knees. A pretty face is the preferred currency of those who seek to exploit it for political reasons. Coincidence?

Elian Gonzalez: Selected for the purpose of crippling Castro through psychological warfare.

May 2000

By BOB WHITE and CYNDI SMITH
nsnews staff

Elian Gonzalez was the hand-picked, child victim of Castro's Cuba. In theory, every single man, woman and child in Cuba is a victim of Fidel Castro, but Clinton critics turned Elian Gonzalez into the "chosen one" because they needed a symbol to revive their perpetual war against Fidel Castro.

Did God choose Elian Gonzalez? That's what nauseating, Republican speechwriters like Peggy Noonan, are supposed to make us believe. But in the context of the war against Castro, God is merely a tool who is used for the sake of manipulating public opinion. When push comes to shove, the image of God is evoked for the sake of uniting and mobilizing public opinion, but all of this Bay of Pigs-era politicking is imperiling the national security interests of the United States.

Who chose Elian Gonzalez? Elian Gonzalez is the chosen "messiah" of disaffected ex-Cubans who practice Watergate-burglar style politics. The most rabid amongst them `are politically motivated assassins who have spent 40 years planning and executing bizarre plots in effort to kill Fidel Castro. In conjunction with the CIA, they brought us the Bay of Pigs, and now, after 40 years of watching, studying and hating Fidel Castro, they have brough us a kinder and gentler approach to declaring war against the Castro regime.

We are denied the opportunity to debate the prudence of all the bizarre, secret wars against Fidel Castro, because Bay of Pigs veterans like Jose Basulto think it is their right and their duty to take the law into their own hands. In 1959, Jose Batulto and his friend Felix Rodriguez signed up with CIA-backed Brigade 2506. They were infiltrated into Cuba before the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and they escaped back to Miami after the invasion failed. On Aug. 24, 1962, the 22-year-old Basulto manned a 22mm cannon aboard a boat off the coast of Miramar, west of Havana and opened fire that shattered windows but failed to kill Castro. "On March 20, 1963, Basulto and 50 other Bay of Pigs veterans enlisted in the U.S. Army with commissions as second lieutenants. Basulto received psychological warfare training at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Benning, Ga. After leaving the Army, he returned to the shadowy world of anti-Castro politics in Miami." [Consortium News, March 30, 2000]

In the 1980's, under the command and lax control of Ronald Reagan, cloak-and-dagger operatives like Basulto and Rodriguez re-emerged to export their brand of terrorism to countries like Argentina. According to former FBI agent William Turner, Basulto served as an adviser to Argentine intelligence officers who were training the contras in methods of torture. The incomprehensible brutality of the Argentine military proved that the human imagination is the only scope and the only limit of the brutality that terrorists engage. In particular: "During the Argentine dirty war, when the military’s secret police captured a pregnant female deemed subversive, they would subject the woman to a Caesarean section or induce labor. They then would give the baby to a military family and murder the new mother, usually by shackling her naked to other captives and then dumping her from a plane into the ocean to drown. Sometimes, the infants were literally raised by their mothers’ killers." [Consortium News, March 30, 2000] That is the scope of the mentality that miraculously rescued Elian Gonzalez, while his mother allegedly perished at sea. The only thing that was "chosen" in the bizarre case of the so called miraculous survival of Elian Gonzalez is a mother who was essentially tortured to death, for the sake of manufacturing an international fiasco which was summarily terminated by Janet Reno.