In 2002, Jeb Bush nominated Raoul Cantero, the grandson of former Cuban dictator Batista, as a Florida Supreme Court judge, despite having no judicial experience. Cantero had previously represented Bosch and acted as his spokesman, once describing Bosch on Miami radio as a "great Cuban patriot" (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5773.htm).
But the political patronage for terrorists accelerated at rapid speeds when Mel Martinez, the Orlando Republican who arranged for the shipwrecked Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, to visit Disney World, was made housing secretary and Otto Reich was awarded a one-year recess appointment for the western hemisphere in the state department.
Otto Reich, like Elliot Abrams, Oliver North and John Negroponte, was one of the officials most responsible for devising and administering the murderous "Reagan doctrine" in the 1980s in Central America where 30,000 Nicaraguans died. Reich was later compensated with a top job in the George W. Bush administration. As the former head of a pro-Contra government office, Reich was named Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere during the February Senate recess in 2002 (http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/03/12/contra-warrior-otto-reich-returns-to-the-state-department/).
Then there is the fact that brother George W. Bush, no doubt at the request of Jeb 'The Smart One', in September of 2002 released Jose Dionisio Suarez and Virgilio Paz Romero from prison. The two carried out the 1976 assassination of the Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffit in Washington on American soil. PRESS headlines called it one of the worst acts of state terrorism ever to take place in U.S. territory ((https://beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CubaNews/conversations/messages/10729).
Bush Crime Family ties to Argentina
Finally, there is the Florida-Argentine connection set up by Jeb Bush with Carlos Ruckauf, a scandalous Peronista politician from Argentina. Ruckauf was vice-president of Argentina under Carlos Menem but, also, Ruckauf was the labor minister under Isabel Peron and then served in the military junta in Argentina. He drew up an accord that led to the "disappearance" of dissident workers at the Mercedes Benz plant in Buenos Aires during the military junta (1976-1983).
In 2003, the ex-Argentine minister Carlos Ruckauf was called to testify before a judge investigating the disappearance. The sub poena was issued by the Federal Court of the City of Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province, of Argentina. The purpose of the 2003 hearing was to hear testimony from Ruckauf, who was the ex-labor minister at the time of the disappearance. The case concerned the fate of 14 workers who worked in a Mercedes Benz Plant in Canuelas and from which they were 'disappeared' in 1976 after the coup d'etat that restored the military regime (http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-533-the-florida-argentine-connection-another-helluva-conspiracy-theory/). Ruckauf claims he had no knowledge of the disappearances but he fled Argentina when the heat became suffocating.
As part of an investigation into Nazi-like crimes in Argentina, it was found that:
"In 2003, as part of the Truth Commission (Juicio de la Verdad) that took place in La Plata, Argentina, German journalist Gabriela Weber introduced a 1976 memo in which Daimler Benz executive Hanns Martin Schleyer admitted that the company had always 'collaborated' with the Labor Ministry and with the bureaucracy of the Peronist SMATA trade union to 'combat subversion.' Schleyer had been an SS officer in Germany during the Nazi era and in all likelihood was no stranger to the fascist methods being employed by the Argentine military dictatorship at the time" (http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/05/arge-m23.html).
Despite all of this, or perhaps because of it, 'Jeb the Smart One', signed an agreement with Ruckauf in mid-2000, allegedly to develop economic and cultural ties between the Buenos Aires province and Florida, where Ruckauf once ruled.
According to long-time researcher Dave Emory:
"The agreement was hammered out by Patricio Lombardi, an Argentine citizen and a former aide to Ruckauf. Lombardi was the Deputy Secretary of State for Latin American affairs for the state of Florida, functioning in that capacity as an aide to Katherine Harris, who was instrumental in the stealing of the Florida election on behalf of George W. Bush in 2000" (ibid).
You can hear more about Ruckauf and the Jeb Bush-Argentinian connection at the audio website: http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-533-the-florida-argentine-connection-another-helluva-conspiracy-theory/).
There, you will also hear about Gustavo Cisneros, a close associate of the Bushes and another one of the many men and women of Cuban extraction in the close Bush circle of friends.
Gustavo Cisneros is the owner of the revamped Cisneros Group, a conglomerate with interests in Venezuelan television stations, telecom, a regional brewery, a real estate company and a baseball team (http://www.forbes.com/profile/gustavo-cisneros/).
Cisneros appears to have been deeply involved with the attempt to oust Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. He owns Univision TV, and will seek to influence Latino voters in the US in 2016, as he has done in the past.
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