The Cuban regime took refuge from the connoted American terrorist since the mid -1980s until his death last Friday.
Lima, Peru – The United States Embassy in Cuba dedicated a posthumous message to Joanne Chesimardex -militant from the black panthers and the black liberation army, who had been convicted of the murder of a policeman in 1973 and lived as a refugee on the island from the mid -1980s until his death.
“Joanne Chesimard did not fight for justice. He murdered the New Jersey state police, Werner Ferster, and then fled to Cuba to evade his responsibility,” said the diplomatic headquarters In X (before Twitter).
Last Friday, a brief note of the Cuban Foreign Ministry reported that Chesimard, better known as Assata Shakur, died at age 77 as a “consequence of health conditions and her advanced age.” Until its last second, the Castro regime covered and protected the renowned American criminal.
Chesimard was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1977 for the murder of agent Werner Ferster in New Jersey. The militant escaped in 1979 of a maximum security prison and five years later reappeared in Cuba, where he received political asylum. Since 2013 it was on the list of the most wanted terrorists of the FBI – the first woman included – and on her head weighed a reward of two million dollars.
“The FBI never stopped calling it what it was: a terrorist. Crying it is like spitting on the plate and blood of each policeman who gave his life in service,” highlights the US embassy in its publication.
According to official documents of the US Government, Chesimard was also involved in numerous assaults and robberies during his leadership in the black liberation army, including robberies in Queens, Brooklyn and Bronx, hand -grenades attacks against agents of the New York Police Department (NYPD) and an armed robbery in the church of the Church of Our Lady Brownsville
The news of his death caused immediate reactions in American politics. Cuban American congresswoman María Elvira Salazar wrote in his X account that “for decades, the Cuban dictatorship has been a den of criminals and terrorists. The death of Assata Shakur demonstrates, once again, how the regime protects the enemies of the United States and makes fun of justice. As long as that dictatorship exists, it will continue to be a sanctuary for the worst enemies of our nation.”
On repeated occasions, the United States government had accused Havana to give refuge to fugitives and terrorists, demanding the extradition of Chesimard, something that never happened. According to official estimates, Cuba would have received about 70 criminals who escaped from the United States.
