La condición de «terrorista» ha sido puesta en perspectiva por una historia documentada del Cayo Hueso decimonónico, que la decana asociada de la Escuela de Artes y Humanidades en la Universidad de Florida Central, Consuelo E. Stebbins, editó con el título City of Intrigue, Nest of Revolution (2007). Aquí se lee que prestigiosos líderes independentistas como Fernando Figueredo, José Dolores Poyo, Gil Marrero y Manuel Moreno planeaban volar el Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, el Casino Español y otros edificios públicos dentro de la Isla. Todos abogaban resueltamente por el terrorismo para acabar con el yugo colonial (páginas 129-142). Los explosivos se mandarían de contrabando a Cuba, en barriles de harina; un agente de aduanas, apellidado González, colaboraría con los mambises. Se concibió también mandarle un paquete explosivo al embajador de Madrid en Washington y enviar diez agentes extranjeros a La Habana, para que dinamitaran alcantarillas y edificios como el Convento de Belén. Dolores Poyo sería enjuiciado por ocupársele un cargamento de armas, municiones y dinamita escondido en su casa. Un periódico (El Ubiquitario, noviembre 12, 1883) advirtió que los cubanos residentes cerca de los españoles y de sus partidarios debían mudarse o atenerse a las consecuencias de atentados con bombas.Foto: Esquina de Cayo Hueso
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¿ Mambì Bin Laden ?
Esto es parte de nuestra verdadera historia que ha sido ignorada y omitida por historiadores cubanos. Los primeros historiadores cubanos nacidos con la república, Herminio Portell Vilá, Ramiro Guerra, Emeterio Santovenia, Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring, etc. eran generalmente nacionalistas y anti-imperialistas que presentaban una historia nacional positivista. Es decir, omitieron todo lo que consideraban negativo, como estos actos terroristas de los mambises, y no indagaron sobre la ideología política de los autonomistas y los anexionistas para ver qué los motivaba. Los próceres de la patria nos fueron presentados como impecables y los historiadores no profundizaron sobre los divisionismos que existieron en el exilio en el siglo XIX.
Después de 1959, los historiadores en la isla se acogieron a los parámetros de "con la revolución, todo; contra la revolución, nada." Las obras que han producido son propagandísticas, plagiadas, y muy superficiales, en comparación a los libros de otros historiadores fuera de la isla.
Al fin lo comprobé: Posada Carriles es la reencarnacion de uno de esos, seguro. En una reencarnación lo único que no cambia es la proclividad, la naturaleza del instinto básico. Como si lo que no se pudo lograr en la vida anterior se intenta en la siguiente. Tok
Hay cierta racionalidad en oponerse a la dictadura, colonial o vernácula, con bombas y atentados
También hay racionalidad en propinarle una galleta a un tipo terco y falta de respeto.
Incluso la tortura puede ser racional. Por ejemplo, si te entregan a Pérez Roque. No te quedaría otra opción que aplicarle el martirio, o la interrogación penosa, como decía el piadoso Torquemada.
En cuanto a los independentistas, pues pudiera ser que a Michele Angiolillo, el itaca anarquista que en 1897 se cargó al presidente del gobierno español Antonio "Hastaelúltimohombreyhastalaúltimapeseta" Cánovas del Castillo, lo instrumentaran unos cubanos en Londres.
Angiolillo se reunió en París con el Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, boricua que representaba el Partido Revolucionario Cubano. Betances le dió 500 francs para el viaje a España y le advirtió que matar a la reina o su hijo desacreditaría la causa anarquista. Betances le sugerió matar a Cánovas, y el italiano asesinó al primer ministro el 8 de agosto de 1897. El atentado cambió radicalmente el destino de Cuba.
Doctor De la Cova, usted escribio este post? Pregunto porque yo se de Henry Gomez (de Babalu) que usted ahora esta escribinedo un libro sobre historia Cubana en Key West.
Usted es el autor original de este post? Parece su estilo.
Previamente he señalado que no soy redactor de este blog. Si fuera, pondría mi firma en el comentario. Lo que estoy escribiendo sobre Cayo Hueso es un artículo para una publicación académica, no un libro, sobre los cubanos exiliados en el cayo durante la Guerra de los Diez Años (1870-1880). He leído este libro de la Dra. Stebbins, basado en la correspondencia oficial de los varios cónsules españoles en el cayo. Sin embargo, no es una historia sobre los cubanos en el cayo, sino sobre el espionaje español contra sus actividades políticas. Recomiendo el libro porque contiene una historia verídica previamente desconocida.
No existe obra que indique cuantos cubanos residían en Cayo Hueso en aquella época. Fernando Portuondo da una cifra exagerada de 100,000 cubanos exiliados en 1869. Mi estudio con el censo federal norteamericano indica los siguientes números de cubanos en Cayo Hueso: 1850-6; 1860-26; 1870-1,047 (20.8% de la población); 1880-2,388 (23.88% de los 10,000 residentes en el cayo). Esto demuestra que los cubanos nunca fueron mayoría en Cayo Hueso, a pesar de los mitos y las falsas historias.
Los Miquis tienen la palabra para confirmar que no soy parte de la redacción de este blog. Yo no tendría ningún inconveniente en admitirlo si lo fuera, en contraste a Paul Benavides del difunto Mambo Watch (con disculpas a Cachao), quien después que lo desenmascaré, siguió blogueando anónimamente hasta que clausuró el timbiriche en el que casi nadie comentaba. Le sugerí a Benavides que se dedicara a terminar sus estudios en FIU en vez de perder su tiempo en algo tan estéril. Parece que me hizo caso.
Profesor, no le de cranque al cholo peruano que vuelve a salir diciendo que somos su fan club.
Y tu no fuistes (o eres) "Yabazon?
Ha! The funniest thing I've ever read Mr. De la Cova!
Should we go over the list of identities that you have hidden under?
- As a pro-Palestine activist at FAU?
- As Armando Andre for La Cronica Graphica? (Great articles on Los Macheteros by the way.)
- As "Yabazon" to comment on the internet and post on You Tube?
Are there any more? Ha!
Profe, se lo adverti. Ya ve, el inca es un frustrado y acomplejado.
Paul Benavides and Mambi Watch Unmasked
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org
/espionage/Paul_Benavides.htm
Response to "Paul Benavides":
Thank you for your contentious viewpoint. My massive website was created mostly by my student assistants. You seem to have developed a rather pathetic fixation with me ever since I previously posted on your blog that your constant monitoring of Cuban exile radio, TV, and print media is similar to the work done by Cuban intelligence agents for decades. I e-mailed you my phone number so that we could chat and I would attempt to understand your motivations for blogging anonymously, the causes of your obsession, and ascertain if you were linked to Cuban espionage in Miami. The person who answered my e-mail wrote:
"My name is Paul Benavides. I was born in Peru in 1979 and my family came to Miami in 1982 when I was still 2 years old. Those first years were very difficult for my family, but would have been worse if not for the help and care of many Cuban families that provided work for my mother and father. My mother cleaned their houses, my father cut their grass. I grew up among their children, despite the obvious differences where I had few toys or a small house."
"I'm a graduate from Coral Gables Elementary, Coral Gables Senior High and Florida International University. No different than many others from where I live. But, very different from my family (grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins) that we left in Peru, and did not have those opportunities and still don't."
I detected an inferiority complex and underlying resentment toward successful Cuban Americans in that message. It could be the source of deeper psychological problems. I later received a telephone call from someone identifying themselves as "Paul Benavides," who claimed to be the sole author of the Mambi Watch blog, and stated that he was calling from his parent’s home. A Google search of the phone number indicated that it was registered to the apartment of Paula Cari at 2496 S.W. 17 Ave., Miami. Benavides added that he received an undergraduate degree in journalism from FIU in 2004 and was now pursuing a second undergraduate degree in psychology. This is a sign of a confused underachiever, lacking vision, and easily distracted by frivolous pursuits. I suggested to "Paul Benavides," that he should blog under his own name, if he is who he alleges to be. Mr. "Benavides" claimed that he preferred to continue blogging anonymously, because he feared retaliation against his future career plans from his political adversaries. I assured him that his leftist perspective and anti-Cuban American sentiments would be no problem for him in academia. Now that Paul Benavides and Mambi Watch have been unmasked on the Internet, I suggest that if you are the real "Paul Benavides," stop lurking in the shadows, demonstrate maturity, and assume responsibility for your writings. Otherwise your suspicious behavior might raise the interest of Homeland Security.
Paul Benavides of Mambi Watch Gets Hysterical After Being Unmasked
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org
/espionage/benavides-hysterical.htm
After recently being unmasked, former anonymous Mambi Watch blogger Paul Benavides, a 27-year-old Peruvian immigrant, responded with a hysterical e-mail bordering on paranoia and containing a veiled threat:
"Paul Benavides paulbenavides78@hotmail.com
Sep 24, 2007
Mr. De la Cova,
Please explain why you believe you have the right to publish my personal history, especially one that was provided by a personal e-mail exchange. If you do not respond I will certainly call you soon, and even seek other options (such as through Indiana University) to get an answer. Your actions are very shocking and surely unethical. I hope to hear from you soon.”
His mental stability is obviously questionable. Benavides is an undergraduate student who craves attention and has sent letters to the editor of the FIU newspaper.
http://media.www.beaconnewspaper.com
/media/storage/paper540/news/2006/10/19/
Opinion/Letter.To.The.Editor.Suicide.
Problem.More.Complex.Than.It.
Seems-2377169.shtml
Therefore, public figures have no right to privacy under the law.
His Mambi Watch blog that daily monitors the Cuban exile TV, radio, and print media, operates in a manner similar to that of Cuban spies, according to evidence in the Federal trial of the Avispa espionage network in Miami. Benavides has not dispelled suspicions that he could be linked to Cuban intelligence or that others are not behind this assiduous monitoring effort. He continues to blog anonymously, after being exposed and permanently identified on the Internet, raising questions about who or what drives this operation.
Now that Benavides has admitted his identity and his address and phone number are known, I will not respond further to his obsessive compulsive behavior. He is now on notice that any further telephone calls, e-mails, or communication from him to me or those I work for will be reported to the authorities as a stalker complaint.
Haha! Is that all you have? Copying and pasting the same old bit over and over again.
Old news De la Cova.
But, I wonder what University would hire someone who has no respect for the highest standard of ethics, which is asked of all professors who must abide by their code of ethics? Certainly not you, if they realize how you violated those standards by publishing by e-mail responses. It there for all to see. In this case it damages you more than me, so be it.
Do you think Indiana University would hire you again? I doubt it, especially when I told them of the entire incident which caused them concern.
I've learned a lot about you Mr. De la Cova, since much has been written about you on the internet and the media. I will be adding more in the future, and making sure that my personal history is made as transparent as yours.
In the end, we will be even-Steven. Is that not fair? Or would you like to add something?
Here's my side of the story from September of last year:
http://mambiwatch.blogspot.com/
2007/09/getting-personal.html
Han vuelto loco a Benavides. Tiene obsesión con De La Cova. Cerró su blog pero sigue vigilando los otros. A ese paso, más nunca va a terminar en FIU.
Por que no:)
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