A Miami man was awarded more than $1 billion today in a lawsuit that he filed against Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Miami Herald reported. Gustavo Villodo blamed them for his father's suicide. In 1959, when Che Guevara became head of the Cuban National Bank, he began to seize local firms. One of those was the General Motors distributorship that was owned by Villodo's father. The family was financially destroyed. Villodo was accused of being "a lackey of the United States" and was tortured for several days. Guevara personally visited him and told him he could either choose to die by firing squad or to kill his son himself. Three weeks later, Villodo swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills rather than make that choice.
Miami-Dade Judge Peter Adrien stated, "What they did was torture this family and tear it apart." However, the financial compensation, the largest in such a suit to date, might be hard for Villodo to obtain. Most of the funds found in a Cuban bank account in New York by the Treasury Department have already been used to pay out other such cases.
Online sources: Miami Herald, Associated Press
Image: Miami Herald
—-> A NEW DEFINITION FOR “CHUTZPAH”
ReplyDeleteWhen the same country that nuked 2 cities and turned 250,000 people to dust ... the same country that fire bombed Dresden and burned 150,000 women and child alive ... the same country that killed 15 million Natives because they felt it was their ‘manifest destiny’ ... the same country that enslaved millions of blacks ... the same country whose CIA has killed 6 million people since 1950 (John Stockwell) ... the same country that invaded Iraq which has caused 950,000 + deaths ... Awards the kid of some dufus whose Daddy choked on his sleeping pills 1,000,000,000 $ in a wrongful death suit against another country !!! [WTF]
Cuban Exiles (who loathe Che) ironically love real TERRORISTS and CIA backed killers, like Luis Posada Carriles (“South America’s Bin Laden” who blew up Cubana Flight 455 in 1976), Orlando Bosch (his partner in crime), Felix Rodriguez (point man for Oliver North in Iran/Contra, trained central American contra death squads, ordered execution of Che Guevara), Alpha 66, Brigade 2506 etc all blow up Havana hotel lobbies, strafe beaches with gun fire, poison crops etc
ReplyDeleteGo to Versailles restaurant in Miami & these old cowardly Gusano Assassins will be sitting right up front.