Five Cuban Prisoners
For reasons of convenience with great interest, the press called "free" is usually ambiguous complacent about certain facts that may require great manipulation in certain circumstances. It's like an arsenal that collects when these events occur. One way to collect, when it comes to people who seek information on U.S. non-defense purposes is used, with apparent lightness, the word "spies." The United States has a clear distinction between foreign agents and spies. The first are those hired by a third country to do work related to their r interests.
Everyone living in the U.S. and performing an investigation or collecting general information, not related to confidential matters of state, is a foreign agent. Whether perceived or no salary or commissions. They by law must register as employees of a third State are, as foreign agents. The activities of foreign agents are regulated by a law called the Foreign Agent Registration and approved during the Cold War. It is a remnant of that era that reinforces and maintains a large force, due to attacks on the Twin Towers and verbal threats from radical Islamic groups. It also exacerbates the belligerent attitude to the United States in relation to the states in the Middle East. The registration drive is part of the Counter Intelligence Section of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice.
Those who equally meet the interests of another State but collect, attempt or conspired to acquire sensitive information in any way put at risk the security of the country, are considered spies.
Persons acting within the definition of "foreign agents" who do not register with the said department in charge of the intelligence division of the Department of Justice, acting in a felony punishable by 10 years in prison and several thousand dollars in fines.
It is important to clarify the main differences between spies and agents, because the press handled this issue in extremes, especially in the case of five Cubans convicted to sentences that are totally divorced from the crime committed.
What is expressed here may vary. Legal cases in the U.S. are under the control of judges until they decided that they are under the control of the Executive. Supposedly, the three powers are separated, but those issues considered of state, political considerations are handled under with little consideration of the Judiciary. The case of "foreign agents" is one of them.
The best and most recent proof has been the treatment of the ten people arrested in the U.S. and deported to Russia in exchange for agents or spies held imprisoned in this country. There were Russian people and a Peruvian woman.
The hypocrisy of the matter lies when analyzing the case of five Cubans imprisoned for similar activities in the United States. The difference with this example is that these people were tried in a Roman circus mounted in Miami, Florida, a city where people of Cuban origin, remnants of the Cold War, still maintain control and dominion over the citizens of different nationalities living there.
In these circumstances, the trial was politicized and those tried were associated with espionage and conspiracy in a way that the sentences could be exaggerated and were pleased that radical sector specifically associated with terrorist activities that the five were charged with investigating and reporting to Cuban authorities.
U.S. authorities handled the case so unprofessionally. They were so inconsistent, that the connection to detect the five agents was obtained using information provided by Cuban intelligence to U.S. authorities concerned, on terrorists operating from Miami. These terrorists had been detected by different Cuban agents operating in the city looking for such information.
Clearly, the authorities were more interested; please the radical terrorist groups, to eradicate this type of activity. From that information sought relevant links and reached the detection of these five people. Rather than arrest terrorists, seized the Cuban agents.
In hundreds of articles these facts have discussed, but never will be enough even when the five are released.
The case of Russian agents and their prompt removal to preserve the good relationship emerging between the U.S. and reached Russia in recent times, attests once again that the release of five Cuban agents imprisoned, fighting terrorism, can be resolved through the Executive.
It has been over half a century of tensions between the U.S. and Cuba. On many occasions attacked the first to second. Their intelligence agencies have directed terrorist acts against facilities and the Cuban people have managed or similar actions of fans of Cuban origin living in its territory. In between, the U.S. has spied on Cuba, using spies or agents, in order to destabilize the Cuban State. Cuba for its part, has only sought to use information on policies that may affect their territoriality and independence, using essentially the use of agents and spies, although some of them were U.S. officials. In any case, the Cuban actions have been aimed at damaging the integrity of U.S. territory.
The difference in behavior of both countries, in the midst of a conflict sparked by the U.S. determination to break relations with Cuba and the subtlety and little importance given to the group of people who worked for Russia looking for non-sensitive information on matters of state, requires to insist that they be released five players through lawful authority of the Executive.
The U.S. government, the current Executive, headed by the President is Barack Obama, should proceed, because they have all the powers to do so at the altar of better relations with a neighbor, whose social, economic and political must be resolved without interference from third parties.
NOTE: * Lorenzo Gonzalo, Cuban journalist living in the U.S. and deputy director of Radio Miami
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