"...In July this year, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of Batista, as a Florida supreme court judge despite his lack of experience. Mr Cantero had previously represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as a "great Cuban patriot".
Other Cuban exiles involved in terrorist acts, Jose Dionisio Suarez and Virgilio Paz Romero, who carried out the 1976 assassination of the Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington, have also been released by the current Bush administration.
The current administration also maintains a hard line on the continuing Cuban embargo despite the urgings of many in Mr Bush's own party to end it. The president's adviser, Karl Rove, "has urged him to fully accommodate hardliners in return for electoral victories for both his brother and himself", Bardach's book says.
For their help, many hardline Cuban-Americans have received plum jobs in the current administration: Mel Martinez, the Orlando Republican who arranged for the shipwrecked Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, to visit Disney World, was made housing secretary, while Otto Reich was awarded a one year recess appointment for the western hemisphere in the state department. FROM...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4558697,00.html
The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals
Article about a new book, by investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, that traces connections between the Bush family and militant Cuban exiles based in Florida
( Guardian )
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See also this excerpt from the first chapter of Bardach's book, and this FBI alert for Miguel Recarey.LINKS?
http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm


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