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Commentary on Cuba's Future
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Sunday, September 28, 2025
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Free Cuba Now!
Cuba’s Foreign Ministry announced earlier today: “On September 25, 2025, U.S. citizen Joanne Deborah Byron, ‘Assata Shakur,’ passed away in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health ailments and her advanced age.” Her full name was Joanne Deborah Byron Chesimard, and she escaped justice in 1979 while serving a life term for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.
The People’s Forum described her in a social media post as an “Anti-racist activist & freedom fighter.” They failed to mention she was a terrorist and a cop killer.
What happened in 1973?
Troopers Werner Foerster and James Harper arrested Joanne Chesimard and two of her associates ( James Coston and Clark Squire ) on the New Jersey Turnpike on May 2, 1973, for a motor vehicle infraction. Unbeknownst to the troopers, all three subjects were carrying semi-automatic weapons and had fake identities. Chesimard opened fire from the front passenger seat, injuring Trooper James Harper in the shoulder. Chesimard got out of the car and kept shooting at both troopers until Harper’s return fire wounded her as she fled for cover.
Trooper Harper fatally injured James Coston, the passenger in the back seat, who also fired at the troopers. Trooper Werner Foerster and Clark Squire, the driver of the vehicle, were fighting hand-to-hand. After suffering serious injuries to his right arm and abdomen, Foerster was killed by roadside execution with his own military weapon. The jammed firearm belonging to Chesimard was discovered beside Foerster.
Chesimard and Squire were accused, found guilty, and sentenced for the murder of Trooper Werner Foerster in addition to other charges.
On November 2, 1979, Joanne Deborah Chesimard was broken out from Clinton Correctional Facility for Women by members of the Revolutionary Armed Task Force under the direction of the Black Liberation Army.
Marilyn Buck, who engaged in terrorist actions including murdering three police in 1981 and bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1983 to protest the invasion of Grenada, helped to break Joanne Chesimard out of prison in 1979. Buck died of uterine cancer at home at age 62 on August 3, 2010. The Cuban government’s official media referred to her as an “activist and former political prisoner.”
Havana’s ideological defense of terrorism
The Castro dictatorship that harbored her continues to advocate revolutionary violence. The Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla by Carlos Marighella which has a chapter on terrorism and in its 1969 introduction states:
The accusation of “violence” or “terrorism” no longer has the negative meaning it used to have. It has acquired new clothing; a new color. It does not divide, it does not discredit; on the contrary, it represents a center of attraction. Today, to be “violent” or a “terrorist” is a quality that ennobles any honorable person, because it is an act worthy of a revolutionary engaged in armed struggle against the shameful military dictatorship and its atrocities.
The Cuban dictatorship published copies of the Mini-Manual in numerous languages and distributed copies worldwide in an effort to encourage urban guerrilla action and terrorism. Many on the left considered Joanne Chesimard a political prisoner because the murder of the police officer was politically motivated. However, she is not a prisoner of consciencebecause of the acts of violence she committed and continued to espouse until her death.
Who was Werner Foerster, the man Chesimard was found guilty of murdering?
Werner Foerster served two years and 10 months with the New Jersey State Police, and left behind his wife Rosa Charlotte Heider Foerster, and his 3 year-old son Eric. Prior to working for the police he had been a welder. Werner was just 34 years old. Both Werner and Rosa were German immigrants.
The straight‐marked furrows in the vegetable garden behind a cluster of houses on Marlboro Road here today awaited the young plants that were to have been placed there. But the man who was to plant them could not do so because he was dead.
State Trooper Werner Foerster, whose garden it was, died in a gunfight on the New Jersey Turnpike at East Brunswick this morning.
The 34‐year‐old trooper lived here with his wife, Rosa Charlotte Heider Foerster, and their 3‐year‐old son, Eric. Their home is a trim two‐story white and brown mansard‐roofed structure with a sparkling white driveway, set back from the tree‐lined road that parallels Route 18 east of the little town here. The street without sidewalk is marked by rows of rural letterboxes.
The couple were born in Germany, under the Nazis in the late nineteen‐thirties, and their lives were marked by the terror of the war years. Their settling here was the culmination of a lifelong dream, their friends said.“They were happy and he was proud of his service in the troopers and he often said to me, ‘My dream has come true,” said an older neighbor who had befriended the young couple when they settled here nearly five year ago.
Trooper Foerster was born in the small Saxony village of Taucha on Aug. 19, 1938. After World War II the youth was befriended by American occupation soldiers and he set as his goal emigration to America.
Other terrorists continue to be harbored by the dictatorship in Cuba, but high ranking officials play dumb
Mehdi Hasan sat down with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío to discuss relations with the United States and raised the question of Puerto Rican bomb maker and terrorist harbored by the Cuban government today. The video made public on September 24, 2025 of the interview conducted in New York City has an exchange beginning at 5 minutes 36 seconds where the seasoned Cuban diplomat pretends not to know who Guillermo Morales is, but still goes on the offensive.
Mehdi Hasan: “There are believed to be 70 U.S. fugitives now based in Cuba, including people like William Morales, who was a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975 killing four people. He escaped from a US prison, went to Mexico I believe, and since has been welcomed in Cuba where he has been living. Why not hand over people like Morales to the US, and get yourself taken off that list? Why give them asylum? These are people who have been convicted of serious crimes.
Carlos Fernández de Cossío: This is a list alleged by the U.S. with no evidence of whatsoever of what they are claiming about these people.
Mehdi Hasan: But William Morales lives in Cuba. You’re not denying he is in Cuba.
Carlos Fernández de Cossío: I’m not accepting it. I don’t event know if he is living in Cuba. I learned about William Morales because I read it in the news.
Mehdi Hasan: You haven’t checked to see if there is a wanted terrorist living on Cuban soil?
Carlos Fernández de Cossío: If there was someone like that in Cuba he would be protected.
Fifty years ago on January 24, 1975, the Havana-backed Puerto Rican terrorist group Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN) carried out a bombing attack at lunch time at the Fraunces Tavern in New York City that claimed the lives of Alejandro Berger, 28; Frank Connor, 33; James Gezork ,32; and Harold Sherburne, 66; and injured more than fifty others. The FALN’s bomb maker William Morales, a fugitive from U.S. justice, is harbored today in Cuba by the communist dictatorship.
On January 24, 2025, the 50th anniversary of the Fraunces Tavern attack, friends, families, and investigators gathered at the site of the attack to remember the dead, and continue to demand justice.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on January 24, 2025 remembered the Fraunces Tavern bombing victims, and the Cuban dictatorship’s continued harboring and support of terrorists, including FALN bomber William Morales in a statement published by the State Department.
“Today, we solemnly commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic bombing at Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan. On January 24, 1975, the Puerto Rican terrorist group Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN) carried out a terrorist bombing attack that claimed the lives of four innocent individuals and injured more than fifty others. As we reflect on this somber day, we honor the memory of those who perished in the explosion: Alejandro Berger, Frank Connor, James Gezork, and Harold Sherburne. Their untimely deaths remind us of the devastating impact of terrorism and the enduring pain it inflicts on families and communities. The Fraunces Tavern bombing was a stark reminder of the threats posed by terrorist ideologies and the lengths to which some will go to advance their causes. In the aftermath of the bombing, our nation came together to support the victims and their families, demonstrating the resilience and unity that define the American spirit. The FBI and other agencies worked tirelessly to capture William Morales, one of the key figures in the FALN, in an attempt to bring him to justice. Morales escaped from prison in the United States, fleeing to Mexico, eventually making his way to Cuba, where Dictator Fidel Castro granted him safe haven. To this day, Cuba continues harboring him and other wanted U.S. fugitives and terrorists. Today, we commemorate the lives lost on that tragic day. We must also recommit ourselves to demanding that wanted U.S. fugitives under the Cuban regime’s protection be brought to justice. We owe the victims and the American people our unwavering commitment to holding the Cuban regime accountable.”
It is also hard to believe that the Cuban diplomat was not alerted to the following presentation on September 10, 2025 when Joseph Connor called out the Cuban government in his presentation on terrorism. His father, Frank Connor, was killed in the Fraunces Tavern, in which he said that the FALN terrorist group that carried out the bombing was "fueled and financed by Cuba".
You can learn more about this terrible event by purchasing Shattered Lives: Overcoming the Fraunces Tavern Terror (2018), a book written by someone directly impacted. You can also watch the recently released documentary Shattered Lives, based on the book by the same name.
