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You people really piss me off! I have many friends in high places at the Herald who are going to whitewash this story. Just wait and see.

This was just forwarded to me. Dr. Trinidad will make this denunciation tomorrow on the TV program of Luis Conte Aguero on TeleMiami at 11 AM. Tomas Garcia Fuste will also announce it on his radio program at 8 AM.

TREASON IN OUR MIDST

by Diego Trinidad, Ph.D.

On Tuesday, August 5, the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, ASCE, perhaps the most important and prestigious organization of Cuban-Americans and many other well-known economists in the world, headquartered in Washington, D.C. for the past 17 years, began its annual convention at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Miami. This year’s newly elected president is the internationally acclaimed Cuban-American economist Jorge Sanguinetty, a man I greatly admire and who I consider a good friend. Along with Jorge, seven new directors were elected by the membership and took over the Board of Directors of ASCE yesterday. Unfortunately, one of those new directors is Marifeli Perez-Stable.

On Monday evening, I wrote Dr Sanguinetty informing him I would not attend the opening session due to the recent death of my mother, for whose eternal rest a funeral mass was offered yesterday evening. But I also said to Jorge that I would probably not have attended in any case and would not renew my membership in ASCE *because* of the election of Ms. Perez-Stable as one of ASCE’s seven directors. The reasons, for those who may not know, are the following: 1) Ms. Perez-Stable was, by her own admission in her article in today’s /El Nuevo/ /Herald/, a sympathizer, supporter and collaborator of the Cuban Revolution and its totalitarian government for well over two decades, during the 1970’s into the late 1980’s. 2) For those who may tend to forgive her trespasses because of her youth and idealism, that is, lamentably not the case. I knew Ms. Perez-Stable as a young woman and I also knew her parents, although my own parents knew hers far better than I did. Indeed, they were close friends since Cuba and continued to be here in Miami for years. Her father was Dr Eliseo Perez-Stable, a very prominent physician in pre-Castro Cuba and here in his later years, director of the VA Hospital in Miami. Sadly, the Perez-Stables were extreme leftist ideologues since their high-society Havana days, and they very much inculcated those ideas in their daughter’s young mind. 3) Far worse, since at least 1993 (I say at least, because I have found that years before, a disreputable local radio personality, a so-called Reverend Espinosa, accused her of similar acts, but I cannot vouch for those accusations), the highly regarded Cuban-American historian and recent author of the best-seller _The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution_, Dr Antonio de la Cova, a distinguished history professor at Indiana University, accused Ms. Perez-Stable of being a paid informant and member of the Cuban DGI, the notorious Cuban Intelligence Agency. Dr. de la Cova has documented these accusations for years. They were first made known to US authorities by a Cuban deserter from the DGI, Captain Jesus Perez Mendez (see
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/FIU-espionage-1993.pdf
and see also http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/marifeli.htm).
Ms. Perez-Stable has threatened to sue Dr. de la Cova and others who have repeated the accusations for years, but she never has. Why? Perhaps because under US law, *the truth is an absolute defense against accusations of defamation. *5) Finally, last week, in Oscar Haza’s nightly TV program “A Mano Limpia", a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Chris Simmons, the man who captured convicted Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes a few years ago, charged on the air that Ms Perez-Stable, along with three others, was a Cuban *spy *(he later said she was not an “active” spy anymore, whatever that means).

For all of the above reasons, I asked my friend Jorge Sanguinetty, new president of ASCE, to demand Marifeli Perez-Stable’s resignation as a director of said organization. Better yet, I urged him to call for her expulsion both as a director and as a member of ASCE. Will he do it? We shall see. But even if he does not, which unfortunately as I also warned him, will only reflect on his new presidency of ASCA and upon the organization itself, most definitely public pressure and outrage will surely force the entire organization to exorcise itself of Ms. Perez-Stable’s fatal presence in its midst. That is up to all of us. Yes, this is a private organization, and to its merit, one that does not accept public money, but depends only of the contributions of its members. But it is mostly made up of Cuban-Americans. And to have an accused spy and a traitor as one of its directors is simply unacceptable. I, for one, will never be a member of ASCE again until and unless Marifeli Perez-Stable is expelled from its membership.

During the Babalu Radio interview, Lt. Col. Chris Simmons says of Marifeli Perez-Stable at 15:21:
"Most importantly for me, at the end, was I had access to a colleague who debriefing, a recent debriefing of a former DI [Cuban Directorate of Intelligence] officer who was working what is called M-1 U.S. targets. But most specifically, he worked the academic section of U.S. targets and in the early first half of the 1990s, now this is the critical part because she says that her support of the regime ended back in the eighties. Her case officer recalled meeting with her in Ottawa, Canada, in mid 1991, and she was still an active agent of Cuban intelligence. So, no matter how she tries to spin, spin it that this may have been an indiscretion of her youth, I got the notes from her case officer who outed her. So, her usefulness to the regime ended when that second officer stepped forward."

Gee Whiz! I thought that the Miami Herald was so concerned about "conflicts of interest!" Remember the Nuevo Herald "moonlighters?" Isn't Ms. Perez-Stable's conflict of interest greater than that of the alleged "moonlighters?"

Since Marifeli Perez-Stable was just recently appointed to the board of ASCE, the acronym now stands for Asociacion de Sospechosos Cubanos Espias.

ASCE = Association of Suspicious Cuban Espionage.

Actually..there's an interesting op-ed in El Nuevo Herald about it...from a former Cuban political prisoner....

http://www.elnuevoherald.com/opinion/story/255891.html

Maybe those of you who read Spanish might want to take a look at this, shall we say, a bit more nuanced perspective about the allegations made by Colonel Simmons and their relevance.

The article by Nicolas Perez Diez Arguelles in El Nuevo Herald makes me wonder why he is being such a strong apologist for Marifeli Perez-Stable. What is their relationship? Her close friend and collaborator, Carlos Alberto Montaner is keeping quiet about the espionage accusations against her.
Perez Diez Arguelles is untruthful in saying that Perez-Stable became anti-Castro in 1981. Simmons pointed out that in the summer of 1991 she was meeting with her Cuban intelligence handler in Ottawa, Canada. Perez Diez Arguelles also lies when saying that Marifeli Perez-Stable "Is one of the most important intellectuals in exile and who in the last years has done the greatest harm to Castroism in the international forums." He does not identify the "greatest harm" done by who he perceives as an anti-Castro Amazonian warrior. Perez-Stable has not pursued judicial recourse against those accusing her of espionage, as she repeatedly threatened to do in the past. These are very serious allegations. Her silence speaks volumes that drown out her apologists like Nicolas Perez Diez Arguelles.

Here is another suspicious character:
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/benavides-whines.htm
Paul Denny Benavides of Mambi Watch Whines Again (May 2008)

Paul Denny Benavides of the pro-Castro "Mambi Watch" blog, born in Peru on Sept. 22, 1978, recently asked the webhost of www.latinamericanstudies.org to delete from this page the name of his stepmother Paula Cari, aka Paula Cari Nuñez, and the address where the family resided until September of last year: 2496 S.W. 17 Avenue, Apartment 5102, Miami. The webhost refused, because this is public information that appears on the Internet.

A search of public information on the suspicious Paul Denny Benavides and his family indicates that his father, Porfirio Benavides, a five-foot-tall gardener born in Ayacucho, Peru, on September 15, 1946, received his Social Security Card, 594-14-85XX in 1982, after arriving in the United States. He has another son, Ivan Freddy Benavides, born in Peru on October 6, 1977. Two years after arriving in Florida, on March 27, 1984, Porfirio Benavides married Aurea E. Montes, four years his senior. The self-employed Porfirio Benavides was director of the "Club Ayacucho de la Florida, Inc." from Februry 3, 1995 to November 4, 2002. On March 13, 2000, Porfirio Benavides was at fault in an automobile accident on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Coral Gables. His 1999 Chevrolet smashed into a 1994 Thunderbird driven by Andrew L. Cabrera. Seven months later, on October 30, 2000, Porfirio Benavides filed for bankrupcy under Chapter 7, Case Number 0019725, in Federal court in Miami.

Paula Cari, who is five-feet-three-inches tall, was born on January 26, 1953. On December 2, 1983, she married Fernando Luis Nuñez, born on March 3, 1954, who arrived in Florida in 1980. The couple resided at 2229 N.W. 34 Street, Apartment 1, Miami. In 1985, he established the Nuñez Paint & Body Shop at 755 N.W. 20 Street, Miami. Their son, Irvin Alexander Nuñez, was born on October 20, 1989. During the 1980s, Paula Cari resided at 2901 N.W. 21 Street, Miami, and at 826 Madrid Street, Coral Gables. She has been self-employed and has worked as a nursing assistant and a cosmetologist. Her Social Security Number 593-54-55XX was issued in Florida in 1987 and her voter's registration card lists her political affiliation as "Other." Paula Cari Nuñez divorced her husband and began an affair with Porfirio Benavides, who resided at 1279 S.W. 23 Street, Miami. In consequence, Porfirio Benavides divorced his wife Aurea E. Montes, in a Miami Circuit Court on August 10, 1994. Porfirio waited only two months before marrying Paula Cari on October 9, 1994. The family later moved to 1279 S.W. 23 Street, Miami. Paul Denny Benavides received his Social Security Card 594-54-83XX in 1987. He is five-feet-four-inches tall and is listed as a Democrat in the Florida Voter Registration.

Public documents indicate that in 2000, Paula Cari, Porfirio and Paul Denny Benavides all resided at 2496 S.W. 17 Avenue, Apartment 5102, Miami. On January 27, 2001, at 10:13 P.M., Porfirio Benavides was driving his wife's 1996 Plymouth Neon east on highway US 1 when he wrecked it doing "40 mph in a 40 mph speed zone." Soon thereafter, the bankrupt Porfirio fled from Florida to reside at 441 E. Arrowood Road, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then moved again to 6120 Tiara Lane, in said city. In 2004, Paul Denny Benavides resided with Porfirio at 105 Cumming Street, Walworth, Wisconsin. Afterward they returned to Miami. On September 26, 2007, Paula Cari Nuñez and Porfirio Benavides bought a house for $160,000 at 4577 N.W. 16 Way, Tamarac, Florida, where they reside with their offspring. Further investigation continues on the suspicious Paul Denny Benavides, his irresponsible accident-prone father, and other relatives. Paul Denny Benavides has been warned that any further contact from him to Professor de la Cova or his employers "will be reported to the authorities as a stalker complaint."

mulatica innuends:
"The article by Nicolas Perez Diez Arguelles in El Nuevo Herald makes me wonder why he is being such a strong apologist for Marifeli Perez-Stable. What is their relationship?"

Interesting (and very traditional) phrasing..a laughable attempt at innuendo, yet one which deserves an response.

The suggestion that Perez Diez Arguelles is an "strong apologist" is an interesting one, for infact, he has a long history of not being one who apologizes for anything, specially his beliefs...if fact, his beliefs and his inability to apologize for them is what made him a political prisoner of the Castro dictatorship.

One can of course, only conjecture..but maybe his experience with absolutism is, in part, what led him to try and defend Perez-Stable. In fact, I bet that because he's been the victim of actos de repudio/witch hunts, he recognized one when he saw it, and thus leapt to her defense.

Unlike of course...that other "collaborator" of the witch..Carlos Alberto Montaner....

Con~o...ahora tambien Carlos Alberto es un sospechoso...vamos a ver si man~ana sale Simmons diciendo que este lo vio ingeriendo churros y chocolates en el mismo cafe de Madrid en el cual la hija de Raul conducio un seminario sobre la preferencia sexual de su padre.

Como decia Trespatines...a la reja!

The professor first unmasked Marifeli Perez-Stable and now he gives us a history of the diminutive Benavides family. Porfirio Benavides seems to have difficulty peering over the steering wheel due to his small size and probably has a drinking problem prompting so many accidents and multiple marriages. What a dysfunctional family. No wonder Paul Benavides is such a loser. Can we see some photos of these people?

The Ringling Bros. Circus should hire the Benavides family as their midget clown act. They could all pile out of a little car after their father wrecks it into a pole as part of their act.

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