Man Who Tracked Che For The CIA, Awarded $1 Billion In Lawsuit

Man Who Tracked Che For The CIA, Awarded $1 Billion In Lawsuit

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A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 billion in damages against the Cuban government for the 1959 suicide of the father of a Cuban-American man who was involved in the CIA-backed capture and killing of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Adrien said he wanted to send a signal to Cuba's government with the huge damage award, which likely will prove difficult if not impossible to collect. But the attorney for Gustavo Villoldo, 76, and his younger brother, Alfredo, said his law firm would scour the globe for Cuban assets to satisfy the judgment.

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To be perfectly honest I know nothing about this case and the way the title was written I thought that they were talking about the American government.

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The award came in a lawsuit filed by Villoldo, who blamed Guevara, Fidel Castro and others for his father's 1959 suicide in Cuba. The family fled to the U.S. and Villoldo later took part in the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion and was involved in catching Guevara in Bolivia.

Cuba's current government refused to respond to the lawsuit and offered no defense. It did not immediately reply to a request in Havana for comment.

Villoldo's father took his life by a sleeping pill overdose in February 1959, shortly after Fidel Castro, Guevara and the other communist revolutionaries seized power in Cuba. The elder Villoldo was a prominent Cuban businessman who also held U.S. citizenship and owned a major General Motors distributorship, a 33,000-acre ranch and several other holdings and properties.

The family was targeted soon after Castro took over as "lackeys of the United States and Yankee imperialists," according to the judge's ruling. The father was beaten, deprived of food, interrogated for days and repeatedly told he would be executed as a purported U.S. agent.

Soon after the man's release from jail, Guevara visited the elder Villoldo personally and forced him to choose either death by firing squad himself or the execution of his son, Alters said. He chose to die, then opted for suicide rather than giving Guevara and Castro the satisfaction of killing him.

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the ruling of the judges is high stupidity ,tomorrow some Muslim would say that his family was tortured by imperialist american forces , and the arab court would rule in his favour Award $10 Billion In Lawsuit and in seize US assets (of citizens or american MNC's or govt )
what would it be like .

the most hypocritic ruling ever , these kind of people plundered Cuba , and when cubans fought back they get this .

this is disgusting

How likely is that guy to see even one cent of that money? I think this whole case was a complete waste of everyone's time and money.