All of Cuba today remembers the victims of the cowardly terrorist act perpetrated 45 years ago against a Cubana de Aviación plane, blown up in mid-flight by agents in the service of the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency.

Havana, October 6 (RHC)-- All of Cuba today remembers the victims of the cowardly terrorist act perpetrated 45 years ago against a Cubana de Aviación plane, blown up in mid-flight by agents in the service of the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency.

The crime cost the lives of its 73 passengers, including the entire fencing team that was returning to the homeland after winning the titles in the Central American and Caribbean Youth Fencing Championship.  To this day, it is considered one of the worst and most brutal attacks of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.

The horrendous crime was orchestrated in the city of Caracas by Cuban-born terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch Avila, who employed and trained the murderers of this precious human cargo.  All those responsible for this barbarity were financed and sheltered by the government of the United States, and walked with total impunity through the streets of the country that sells itself as a paradigm of the anti-terrorist struggle, but from whose territory a good part of the evils that afflict humanity are being generated.

The Cuban government requested the UN Security Council to meet to discuss the case, still pending, in 1992. After hearing both sides, the lies of the U.S. representative prevailed, and the Cuban complaint was dismissed by the UN Security Council.

Cuba will never forget its children or its history and every October 6 commemorates the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism. The phrase of our maximum leader Fidel Castro Ruz in the mourning farewell to the victims of the cruel act will always resound among the enemies of the Revolution: "We cannot say that pain is shared.  Pain is multiplied.  Millions of Cubans weep today together with the loved ones of the victims of the abominable crime. And when an energetic and virile people weep, injustice trembles!"