05-09-2016, 02:15 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I don't think we have a thread on Jose Elias de la Torriente here Scott. It will be good to see what can be found out about him.
Bill Kelly did some excellent research on him, I'm not sure where others received their information regarding Torriente's assassination, from my understanding, Gustavo Velloldo was apart of that group and in charge of Torriente's military. I also discovered Guatavo's name and number in my father's address book, when I called Gustavo and asked him some questions he said he doesn't do interviews anymore and denies ever knowing the Cubanos Unidos or my father. Through further research I discovered it was Gustavo who called the FBI to inform them that Wilfredo Navarro and others were involved in a theft of a Bertram boat from some shipping yard in Miami.
If Gustavo didn't know my father how did Gustavo's name and number end up in my father's address book? If he didn't know the Cubanos Unidos how then did he know who stole the boat? It seemed to me he didn't want to talk to me, I later found out that my father was also apart of the Torriente Plan.
I feel the real need to express that anything I post about my father has nothing to do with boasting or bragging, just the truth is all I'm trying my best to expose. You see, Torriente was not killed while watching TV he was lured outside his home by someone from another rival anti-Castro group, someone Torriente knew, as soon as he was killed word spread around Miami very fast that it was a political hit by Fidel Castro. Later, other information would circulate that someone assassinated Torriente because of his failed invasion attempt to Cuba, but, that's not true either. The actual invasion was first announced so to inform Castro just as they did with the Bay of Pigs, however, Torriente's Plan was to postpone the invasion leaving Castro to believe it wasn't going to happen, but before it could be carried out Torriente was assassinated. The reason he was, was because Torriente had gone to the FBI just days before his assassination and informed the FBI that the Cubanos Unidos had been financing their operations and infiltration's into Cuba with the sales of drugs.
It does hurt to have to talk about this stuff, but I've found the best way for me to heal is to talk about this stuff. Torriente was shot twice in the back, one bullet missed, and the fourth shot hit him in the throat he lived for 81 minutes then died at the hospital.