America 1982-Chapter 557 - 115: Ms. Letty, Willing to Extend a Helping Hand to Her Compatriots_2
After all, the fact is that none of the fourteen death row inmates are of Cuban descent, but this is not the problem of Iliana Leti at all. It can only be said that, so far, Cubans are not as brutally cunning as the blacks and whites. You must know, in the free Florida, being sentenced to death by the court is much more difficult than killing someone with your own hands. The dossiers of those fourteen death row inmates, if you pick up any to read aloud, could horrify any listener and stoke their rage. Those inmates received what they deserved.
It surely isn’t reasonable to execute a few black death row inmates and then go find some Cubans with minor offenses, help them "upgrade their seats," so to speak, and send them to hell alongside black inmates just to show racial equality, is it?
"You need to be rational, Mr. Raven. Their death sentences were the result of a fair and just American legal trial. Questioning me here is pointless. If my Cuban compatriots commit crimes that warrant the death penalty, I would be even more eager than you to see them executed. I won’t show any partiality towards any Cuban for racial reasons," Iliana Leti earnestly said, "You can attack me, interrogate me, criticize me, but I think, if you truly believe America is great, you’d better start by trusting that the law in America is just, regardless of race, regardless of wealth."
Tommy, watching the television as Iliana Leti spoke defiantly, held his glass of wine and said indifferently, "That woman has been tricked. I’ve seen her previous fifty speeches and knew she wouldn’t miss an opportunity to praise the justice of the American judiciary. Now is the time, Martin, right when this Cuban woman speaks of the just American law, blind to race or wealth, strike her a heavy blow. Have Jeff shout out that name, loudly, and by the way, disrupt and cut off that woman’s signal, making her shut up and listen closely."
"The stock price of the tech company you invested in has already tripled. Everyone thinks you’re just playing politics, but in reality, you’ve made politicians pay out of their pockets to buy your shares," Martin remarked somewhat speechlessly before giving Jeff debate cues according to the prepared script.
Martin was actually unaware of the tech company’s stock price until after the Democratic Party primary was over. Sophia called Tommy to mention the tech company’s significant stock price rise, and he happened to be there. That’s when he realized Tommy intentionally used the connections of Stephen and Bill, along with Jeff’s performance in the primaries, to modestly hype the technology content of his product. Martin didn’t know how much the stock had risen, but he felt that his boss Tommy must have cashed out and earned a lot, his smile broader and brighter than usual.
Soon after, Jeff, prompted by Martin, spoke out loud: "The law in America is just, blind to race or wealth. Hearing you say this is quite laughable, ma’am. Orlando Bosch! Do you remember this name? You, do not have the right to profane the word ’law.’ Let me tell everyone what this lady, who talks eloquently about erasing racial discrimination in the Eighteenth District, assisting Cuban compatriots and people of color to improve their lives, has done. Orlando Bosch, this name might be somewhat unfamiliar to many as years have passed, indeed over a decade. Thirteen years ago, the perpetrator of the explosion of Cuban flight 455, a Cuban, he personally planted a bomb on that aircraft, resulting in the deaths of all 73 people on board. Someone might ask, was it targeted at Castro onboard, an assassination attempt against Castro?"
"No, there was no Castro on board. The victims included 57 Cubans, among whom 24 were athletes from the Cuban Fencing Team, who had just won gold medals at the Caribbean Youth Championships, with sixteen of them being minors under the age of eighteen. The rest of the Cubans were sports officials. The dead also included eleven Guyanese passengers, five North Koreans—all photographers, doctors, and the like—and even the wife of a young official from the Guyanese embassy in Cuba, who was pregnant and visiting her husband in Cuba."
"After installing the bomb at Trinidad airport, the perpetrator fled to Venezuela, claiming to be a Cuban revolutionary exile opposing Castro, hoping Venezuela could shelter him and give him over to the United States. Do you know what the Venezuelan judge asked when he heard the perpetrator claim to be a Cuban revolutionary? That honest judge asked him, so this is what a Cuban revolutionary is, too scared to assassinate Castro, only daring to brutally slay ordinary people? In Venezuela, such revolutionaries are called murderers, thugs, terrorists."
"Venezuela did not hand him over to the United States, but insisted on convicting him of serious crimes and locked him up in a Venezuelan prison. Why did the CANF appear? Because civil foundation organizations can do many things inconvenient for national governments to do, like bringing Orlando Bosch, a hybrid against humanity and recognized by both the US CIA and Department of Justice as a terrorist, safely to the United States. Ladies and gentlemen of Cuban descent, yes, you heard correctly, the coward who did not dare to assassinate Castro but killed twenty-four Cuban sporting talents was brought back to America safely by our Ms. Letty last year. And when the United States wanted to deport him, she, along with her husband and CANF, launched a widespread lobbying effort. You can find out for yourselves whom they lobbied. I can only say, the perpetrator known as Orlando Bosch got his Green Card, currently residing in Miami."
