Over 1.2 Millon Cubans Marched for Justice
Over 1.2 million Cubans marched along Havana´s sea drive in demand of justice for more than 40 years of US-sponsored terrorism and the arrest of notorious terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch.

President Fidel Castro, who led the huge demonstration that was echoed by the media in countries around the world, pointed out in a message that Bosch and Posada, "the most bloodthirsty exponents of the imperialist terrorism against our country, committed dozens of atrocious acts in numerous countries of this hemisphere, including the territory of the United States."

However, he stressed: "This is not a march against the people of the United States. As we have said before, and we insist here today, this is a march against terrorism and in favor of our people’s life and peace as well as that of our American brothers and sisters in whose ethical values we trust."

For defending their right to development, justice, peace and liberty, "our people have been subject to the longest economic war in history and to a pervasive, ferocious campaign of terrorism which has lasted more than 45 years," stressed President Fidel Castro in an address to the rally.

Since the early hours of Tuesday, masses of people walked along Havana´s main streets towards the waterfront drive resembling human rivers flowing into the sea to then march pass the US Interest Section.

After delivering his anti-terrorism and for justice message, Fidel Castro, showing impressive good shape just after six months of a delicate surgery to reconstruct a knee cap, led the march branding a small Cuban flag.

In his address, the Cuban leader recalled the bombing of the merchant ship La Coubre in Havana harbor in March 1960 that killed 101 people and wounded hundreds as one of the first and bloodiest of such acts of terror, masterminded in US territory.

He also referred to the Bay of Pigs invasion on April 17, 1961 "by a military force, organized, trained and equipped by the US government, which was preceded by a surprise, treacherous air strike dealt by US bombers, with the Cuban air force insignia painted on them."

"Diplomats were killed, vanished or maimed. Commercial planes were blown up before they took off or in midair like the Barbados airliner on October 6, 1976, full of passengers whose remains lie beyond recovery on the bottom of the sea, hundreds of meters deep," Fidel Castro underlined.

"These acts", he condemned, "were devised by US governments and their special services, and perpetrated by individuals trained by those agencies."

"Orlando Bosch and Posada Carriles, the most bloodthirsty exponents of the imperialist terrorism against our country, committed dozens of atrocious acts in numerous countries of this hemisphere, including the territory of the United States," he remembered.

"Thousands of Cubans either lost their lives or were maimed as a result of these cowardly, loathsome acts," Fidel Castro denounced.

The Cuban government has demanded that Posada Carriles, who illegally sneacked into South Florida to seek political asylum, be deported to Venezuela to stand trial for what has been known as the Crime of Barbados.

Alluding to the Bush administration double standard on terrorism, Fidel Castro stressed that the "same US agencies and services which trained Cuban-born terrorists also carefully trained, as is common knowledge, those who organized the brutal attack on New York’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 in which some thousands of Americans lost their lives."

"This is not a march", he insisted, "against the people of the United States. As we have said before, and we insist here today, this is a march against terrorism and in favor of our people’s life and peace as well as that of our American brothers and sisters in whose ethical values we trust."