COINCIDED WITH THE ARREST OF 5 CUBAN SPIES
There on top of the master bedroom dresser was my very expensive watch…in plain view and alongside an exceedingly expensive dinner ring belonging to my ex-wife…it had an emerald the size of a garbanzo bean. Any thief worth his salt would have taken these items along with others of considerable value that were there just for the taking.
Instead, the thief or thieves; dislodged all the drawers, threw all the contents on the floor and left the place in disarray…it looked more like a deliberate act of vandalism than a burglary.
The one thing that was missing was my computer. It was old and it had a virus…it ran slow and in those days computers were not what they are today…I merely used it for e-mail and an occasional porn picture. But the burglary coincided with the arrest of five Cuban spies. One of these was Nilo Hernandez who owned Mercado Magazine and that was a publication where I placed a lot of my client’s computer advertising.
Our relationship was friendly but it was strictly business. Never in a million years would I have suspected that Mr. Hernandez was a Cuban spy. But in retrospect, I now put two and two together and can’t help but speculate that the two incidents were not related. Perhaps the FBI hoped that they could find incriminating evidence in my computer that I too was somehow one of the spies.
These spies were convicted in the United States for spearheading a spy ring known as "The Wasp Network." Their six-month trial in a Miami federal courtroom resulted in prison sentences that many Cubans feel were unjustified and excessively severe. Three of the five agents—Gerardo (Nilo) Hernández, Ramón Labañino, and Antonio Guerrero—were sentenced to life in prison; two others, Fernando González and René González [no relation], received 19 and 15 years, respectively.
I hope the agents that took my computer had fun with my dirty porn…I am sure that they had to masturbate while uncovering it.
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