Raul Castro has a new friend in the New York City government

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Silvio Canto, Jr.

Melissa Mark Viverito jura el cargo el miércoles 8 de enero 2014, para convertirse en la primera persona latina en ocupar la Presidencia del Consejo Municipal de Nueva York, el segundo puesto más importante en el gobierno de la ciudad tras el alcalde/ www.elnuevoherald.com

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We've heard about Mr de Blasio, the new mayor of New York.  This is even crazier than people at his inauguration talking about "plantations" and income inequality.

The new speaker of the New York City council is not just a liberal.  She is a "left wing zealot" who has supported causes like "The Cuban 5" in prison for spying in the US.

The New York Post published the story a few days ago:

"City Council speaker candidate Melissa Mark-Viverito once lobbied on behalf of five Cuban intelligence agents convicted of spying against the United States.  

Mark-Viverito told the United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in a 2009 letter that the so-called "Cuban Five" were "unjustly imprisoned in the United States for trying to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba."  

In fact, the agents had infiltrated a naval base in Florida and were convicted of espionage conspiracy against the United States, records show.  

The 2001 convictions were upheld on appeal, and the US Supreme Court refused to review the case.  

One of the five, Gerardo Hernandez, was also convicted of murder conspiracy for providing information about the flight plans of two small planes that were shot down by the Cuban government in 1996 -- killing four.   

In her letter, Mark-Viverito pleaded for more family visitation rights for the prisoners.  

Asked Tuesday about the impetus of the request -- and its connection to the East Harlem district Mark-Viverito represents -- spokesman Eric Koch declined to comment.  

The councilwoman's intervention on behalf of pro-Cuba agents is part of a pattern of support for far-left causes. 

In 2010, she generated significant backlash after circulating a petition calling for the release of a jailed leader of the Puerto Rican separatist group, FALN -- which had been deemed a terrorist organization by the FBI.  

As The Post has reported, Mark-Viverito went to Bolivia in 2008 to support socialist and anti-American President Evo Morales during a recall election.  

Mayor de Blasio, whose ideology is also considered ultra-liberal, has been pressuring councilmembers to back Mark-Viverito as speaker, according to sources.  

He has maintained that he has only had conversations with councilmembers, but that they will elect whoever they choose -- in a vote scheduled for Wednesday. 

Asked Tuesday about his involvement in the race -- given his prior criticisms that then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg and then-Council Speaker Christine Quinn were too close -- de Blasio insisted that the comparisons aren't valid.  

"Michael Bloomberg and I are very different people in ideology and many other ways," he said. "And I just think it's a different reality." 

Although Mark-Viverito has already claimed victory with the support of 30 of the council's 51 members, sources say her battle with Manhattan Council Member Dan Garodnick is likely to go down to the wire. 

"They are not throwing in the towel yet," one City Hall insider said of Team Garodnick, which late Tuesday believed it was getting close to picking off a handful of Mark-Viverito supporters. 

If their effort fails, Garod­nick's backers are mulling the launch of their own faction to counter the growing Progressive Caucus -- which is co-chaired by Mark-Viverito and backed by de Blasio, the insider said. 

"After eight years of Chris Quinn and Mike Bloomberg, the members are talking freely about a way to ensure the council remains independent from the mayor," the insider said."

Who in the world elected these people?  Do the voters understand that this lady has been promoting anti-US causes?   Also, she is hanging around with leaders like the Castro brothers, Hugo Chavez or Evo Morales of Bolviia.

Sadly, the new Speaker of The NY City Council is ignorant that Castro, Chavez and Morales are not "democrats" or people who believe in the rule of law or elections.

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