It's An Old Story

Date: 31-March-07

From: News Center Publications
Subject: April Caribbean Memo

Dear Friends:

It's an old story, one that happens all the time in Europe, Latin America, anywhere. And it's carried out by the political left in an attempt to accept little or no responsibility for anything no matter how deadly or cruel.

That's our view, of course.

Here is a perfect example.

After an Italian political leftist, Cesare Battisti, was arrested in Brazil earlier this month, the political left reacted as they always do. It didn't matter that Battisti, a member of the Communist Proletariat Party, had been condemned to life in prison for a series of homicides in Italy.

His seizure by Brazilian authorities at a Copacabana Hotel in Rio was reported and called a `brilliant operation.' They acted on intelligence provided by French authorities.

His arrest, according to the left, had little to do with his criminal activity.

The 52-year-old Battisti, they said, was stopped by Nicolas Sarkozy who wants to be France's next president after Jacques Chirac announced he would not seek another term. Before stepping down as France's Interior Minister to become a leading presidential candidate, he reportedly took steps to help capture Battisti to boost his election chances.

In our own hemisphere, the left has applied the same tactic against Chile's Augusto Pinochet and what he did on Sept. 11, 1973.

He stopped leftist Salvador Allende, who wanted to convert the South American country into a second Cuba.

The left points out Pinochet killed 3,000 in the process. For them its apparently okay to kill as long as it's done in the name of their kind of politics.

Why make what could be considered a crazy statement?

Because the left has never questioned Cuba's Fidel Castro, who did away conservatively between 20,000 to 30,000 men, women and children when he came to power in January of 1959.

One of our five novels, `Chile-New York: The Eleventh of September,' describes what happened in Chile during the Allende-Pinochet period. And it should not be shocking to learn the political left sees those events differently, much like their condemnation of the Battisti arrest.

All of our novels attempt to give the broadest kind of historical and political vision possible of events in our hemisphere in easy-to-read narratives.

But don't take our word for it. Get the novel and decide for yourself.

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The Editors