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Luis Posada Carriles is a mass murderer with quite a bit more innocent blood on his hands than your average member of Al Qaeda, but he's not in prison, he's a free man in Miami, one of the many rightwing Cuban terrorists who are beloved by the US gov
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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #59
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
David Rovics
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bmi all rights reserved 2009
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September 18, 2009
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MP3 3.5 MB • 320 kbps • 1:32
Story behind the song
Luis Posada Carriles is a mass murderer with quite a bit more innocent blood on his hands than your average member of Al Qaeda, but he's not in prison, he's a free man in Miami, one of the many rightwing Cuban terrorists who are beloved by the US government. Meanwhile the men known as the Cuban 5 and people like Ana Belen Montes are spending most or all of the rest of their lives in prison for nothing more than trying to defend Cuban sovereignty.
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Luis Posada lived in Havana There amongst the gentry With the doctors and lawyers and mafia bosses He thought it was his country When the revolution came he left Just ninety miles away Then he signed up for a course At the SOA Luis Posada left Fort Benning A lieutenant working for the CIA A long career of death and murder Began on that day He planted bombs in Cuban cafes To strike fear within the hearts Of the Cuban people And he directed every part And now he is a free man in Miami Luis Posada hired hitmen To plant bombs inside a plane Seventy-three people Died in a blood-red rain He ran guns and drugs for the Contras And there he trained a terror cell To wreak havoc on their homeland And of course to kill Fidel And now he is a free man in Miami Luis Posada went to prison He was caught with thirty pounds Of C4 explosives He was gonna bring a building down He could have killed two thousand That night in Panama But Bush said hand him over We want him in Florida And now he is a free man in Miami Luis Posada is a free man Not so the Cuban Five Who agreed to leave their homeland To allow it to survive Undercover in south Florida They were the eyes and ears For fighting terrorism They’re serving twenty years While Posada is a free man in Miami
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