Chapter 416: The Cuban rescue recommendation vote is too miserable, please vote
When Kai rushed back to the police station, Director Cooper had already held a meeting with personnel from the CIA, FBI, State Department and DEA. Because of Marcus's special status, he was specially allowed to participate in this meeting.
It's a pity that this is just a formal thing, Marcus has no say there.
After Tapia hijacked Sydney and boarded the plane, she called Marcus. Tapia's request was very simple, that is, let Marcus return all the money that Tapia had seized.
Will let Sydney go.
But of course this kind of thing is impossible. Not to mention that in the eyes of high-level officials, such a large amount of money is definitely worth more than a DEA agent. Just saying that the government will never bow to the robbers, Tapia's request is destined to fail.
may be satisfied.
Not compromising with the robbers is basically the rule of the police all over the world, because once this happens for the first time, the police are waiting for unlimited hijacking incidents. In this way, although it seems to be a bit indifferent to the safety of the hostages, the world
That's it. If you want to avoid countless victims later, you must be ruthless from the beginning and don't give those criminals any luck.
So no matter how angry and aggrieved Marcus is, those people will only pretend to comfort Marcus, telling him that the State Department is conducting diplomatic mediation, and they are trying their best to use diplomatic means to rescue Sydney safely.
In fact, these words are of little practical significance. The relationship between Cuba and the United States is very complicated. To say that there is no direct communication between the two is of course nonsense, although at the national level, the United States and Cuba do not have diplomatic relations, and they can communicate through third parties and
Folks, the two countries still have contacts.
What's more, the US military's Guantanamo military base is in Cuba.
It's very interesting to say that the two countries have been at war with each other for so many years and have even severed diplomatic relations, but the US military still has a military base in Cuba. Guantánamo base is the earliest military base established by the United States overseas. It is located in the original southeastern part of Cuba.
In the Oriental Province. In 1898, the U.S. military took advantage of the victory in the Spanish-American War and entered Cuba, which was originally a Spanish colony. In 1903, the United States forcibly leased Guantanamo Bay and part of its adjacent land to Cuba to build a naval base. The rent was 2,000 per year.
gold coin, equivalent to approximately 4,000 U.S. dollars. This amount has not changed to this day. In 1934, U.S. President Roosevelt and Cuban President Palma signed a permanent lease treaty, stipulating that Cuba can only take back the base if it is abandoned or both parties agree through negotiation.
After the victory of the Cuban revolution in 1959, the Cuban revolutionary government asked the United States to return the Guantánamo base, but the United States has always refused to give up the base.
Castro has always opposed the existence of the base, refused to accept rent from the United States, and demanded that U.S. troops withdraw from Guantanamo. But the United States ignored it and nominally paid rent to a designated account every year, and Castro continued
There was no way to really break up with the U.S. military and start a war, so things just stayed there.
Now, the Guantanamo military base has become an enclave of the United States. The US military has established mine arrays and defensive positions outside the military base. Anyone approaching will be regarded as a provocation. The US military has the right to shoot, which is very hooligan.
In short, it is not that there are no communication channels between the two countries, but... the relationship between the two countries is there. Castro is an iconic anti-American pioneer. Although he will not do anything to substantially harm the United States, he can sing the opposite tune.
For sure.
For Cuba, Tapia is not a criminal, and he is even an outstanding citizen who supports the construction of the motherland. Castro cannot touch Tapia under any circumstances. After all, Cuba and the United States do not have an extradition treaty, not to mention Tapia.
There is drug trafficking in the United States, but there is no such thing in Cuba. It is impossible for the Cuban authorities to arrest a patriot for this kind of thing. Coupled with the hostility between the people of the two countries, the bad things Tapia did in the United States are in the minds of many Cubans.
It’s considered anti-American and anti-imperialist.
When Kai opened the door and went in, Marcus had already started banging the table. As his direct superior, Theresa could only comfort him as much as possible, but there was no other way.
When Kai entered the door, he did not immediately go to talk to Marcus. Instead, he met an old acquaintance whom he had not seen for a long time.
"Hey~~! Im! How are you doing? How are Caroline and the kids?"
Im is the special commissioner of the State Council this time. To be honest,
"Caroline? She is still like that, worrying about the children all day long. You know, they have reached puberty and have a lot of troubles." Im used to work for the Special Forces Command and was an acquaintance of Kai.
He retired from service a few years ago and worked in the Pentagon. Later, he was transferred to the State Department due to his military background. He was able to get ahead. Kai didn't expect to meet an acquaintance here.
Although he and Kai are acquaintances, Im can't let go of certain things. After all, he also has his own position.
"Kay, you know, rules are rules. Regarding your colleague's sister..."
"Im!" Kai waved his hand to interrupt Im's next words. "I know, I know. I understand the rules. But you should understand me."
Im clearly heard what Kai meant. He was silent for a while and then said with a wry smile: "I knew it."
"Of course you should know that this is what I was originally doing." Kai smiled and patted his shoulder. "Okay, you can go back to work."
Im nodded, turned around and picked up his briefcase, and was about to take the FBI and CIA people away, but halfway there, he said a few words to the CIA people and got a phone number from that person.
, then turned around and handed it to Kai.
"I can only do so much...and I won't admit that I did anything afterwards. This matter has nothing to do with us. Well, you should know the rules." After saying that, Im left directly with the others, and even
He didn't even say a word to Director Cooper, he was very polite and polite.
Others in the police station were either thoughtful or confused, wondering why Kai wanted to drive these people away.
Director Cooper knew a little more, but he still looked at Kai a little worriedly: "Kay, can you handle it?"
Director Cooper is not qualified to fully view Kai's information, but from the limited information, it is not difficult to analyze what Kai once did in the army. There are various urban legends about this kind of thing in every country, but Library
Po knew that some of it was true.
After all, everything has a dark side, right?
But this time it’s different, it’s Cuba!
The United States is very powerful, but if you really want to talk about it, Americans are actually very ignorant. A TV station once conducted a survey. They randomly interviewed people on the street and asked them about their attitude towards North Korea. Basically, 80% of the people blurted out the answer.
, North Korea is the enemy of the United States, and they want to destroy the United States all the time.
But when they were asked to talk about why North Korea is the enemy of the United States and how North Korea destroyed the United States, no one knew. More than 70% of the people even didn’t know where North Korea was! They knew nothing about the situation in North Korea.
Know.
This kind of ignorance does not mean that Americans are really stupid, but that they are arrogant. They think that they only need to understand their own country, and other countries... don't matter, they are all rural places.
As for Cuba, the vast majority of Americans also don’t know much about it, and they only make assumptions about Cuba based on their inherent impressions.
Dictatorship, poverty, people's livelihood is in dire straits, there are spies everywhere, and every Cuban hates Americans.
But those who have actually been to Cuba know that this is not the case at all. Apart from being a little poorer, Cuba is actually a very nice country. First of all, under Castro's governance, Cuba's literacy rate is quite high, exceeding
99%, this number is much higher than that of the United States. At the same time, Cuba's average life expectancy has reached 78.3 years, the pace of life is slow, the folk customs are relatively warm and simple, and the public security is good, especially in terms of good public security, it ranks among the best in all of South America.
In other South American countries, because they have not carried out national construction, or they have listened to the deception of the Americans, they have adopted small government and liberal economic theories. This has led to serious local separatism in many South American countries, such as the most familiar Brazil, Argentina, etc.
Although the country may look like a modern country, in fact, local separatism is extremely serious and class conflicts are serious. Liberal economic theory has made these countries have a single domestic industry and lack an independent industrial system, and eventually they gradually turned into economic colonies of the United States.
Let’s take Brazil and Argentina as examples. Brazil exports bulk timber and minerals, while Argentina can only engage in agriculture and animal husbandry. It lacks its own industrial system, and the share of domestic foreign goods is significantly ahead of domestic goods. In this case, domestic jobs will naturally be created.
There will be fewer people, the unemployment rate will skyrocket, and then the society will become richer and poorer, and public security will be damned.
But this is not the case in Cuba. The gap between the rich and the poor is not large, so domestic conflicts are naturally small, and the society is naturally good.
Therefore, it is really an exaggeration to say that Cuba is a dragon's nest and a tiger's den. Kay once spent some time at the Guantanamo military base and knows what the situation is like in Cuba.
"No problem, I have acquaintances there." Kai did not explain to Cooper that Cuba is actually a good place. He might not believe it anyway. Under the influence of public opinion, his thinking has been fixed, unless one day the American media starts to give Cuba
Singing faro, otherwise this situation cannot be changed at all, and it is a waste of words.
Marcus now finally understood what Kai was going to do.
This emotional little black man was moved to tears.
"Thank you, Kai, thank you."
Mike was more enthusiastic and stood up immediately.
"I will go with you!"
But Kai obviously had no intention of taking him with him.
"No, no, no, you should stay calm. You need professionals to do this kind of thing." Are you kidding me? Going to an enemy country to rescue hostages is completely different from rescuing hostages in Chicago! What's more, Mike's style... this
Every time these guys catch a thief, they make the scene as big as possible. The last time they went to tap Tapia, they almost blew up three blocks and fired thousands of rounds of ammunition, not to mention the cars and utilities that were blown up.
, anyway, after the bill was sent to the police station, the chief almost called an ambulance. If he and Marcus hadn't been really good at business, they would have packed up and left long ago.
If he really wants to take him with him, then Marcus will definitely go with him, and it will be lively by then. He has no intention of confronting the Cuban army head-on. Of course, this kind of thing should be done as quickly as possible, and then run away. Really
If they are held back by the Cuban army, they will fight when the time comes. Whether the fight is inevitable or not will be discussed later. I only say that it is very easy to cause international conflicts afterwards. In order to rescue a hostage, two countries are at war with each other. It is a bit too exaggerated.
.
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Since we are in the old business, we naturally want to call on all our old brothers.
Saji and the others had just returned from Chicago, but they were called back within two days. Although they complained, they were very smart with their hands. After all, they had money. This time, they were going to rescue DEA agents anyway.
DEA must show sincerity, even if Kai's original intention is to save his friend's sister, one code must be the same.
And the DEA is also very wise. For them, it is natural to rescue their own people. They are willing to spend more money on this kind of thing. After all, it is related to the morale of the entire agency. As for money... Congressional appropriation is
What is it for? It’s not using their private money, why should they feel bad about public money? Moreover, this kind of thing is easy to repay, and even the big bosses of the audit committee of Congress will not make it difficult for them in this kind of thing.
So the DEA waved its hand and wrote a huge check.
That same day, Saji and the others were picked up in Chicago by a special plane, and then flew directly from Chicago to Miami. From Miami, they went directly to Cuba via an unspeakable passage. The CIA secretly controlled many passages into Cuba, and this was not a secret. After all,
The CIA has carried out 638 assassinations on Castro. Although none of them were successful, this is enough to show that the CIA has the ability to send people to Cuba.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the morning of the third day, a group of people arrived at Guantanamo City, the capital of Guantanamo Province in southeastern Cuba. This is the location of the famous Guantanamo military base in the United States and the Guantanamo prison.
location.
Tapia's estate is located on the seaside side of the northeastern corner of Guantanamo City, only a few kilometers away from the jurisdiction of the US military base, which is very close.
"That's Tapia's manor. It's the most luxurious manor in Guantánamo City. It has a huge swimming pool and a golf course. Many officials like to come here for recreation when they have nothing to do. Especially some officers. Tapia will provide them with
There are many American products that are rare on the Cuban market, so Tapia has a very good relationship with the local garrison.”
The speaker is the CIA's man in Cuba, a native Cuban. When it comes to finding 'collaborators' or leaders, the CIA has a natural advantage. Among other things, a US passport alone can attract many people to work for the CIA.
.Although the happiness index of Cubans is very high, there are always some people who are not satisfied with the status quo and want a better life. Decades of American hegemony have caused many people to believe that the United States is paradise.
The young man in front of him worked for the CIA because he wanted to immigrate to the United States and live a rich life. This was also one of the help Im gave Kai. There are many such collaborators in Cuba, and it would not matter even if they were exposed.
Anyway, the CIA doesn't expect these people to help them assassinate Castro or overthrow the Cuban government. So I don't feel bad.
"Because of his good relationship with the garrison, the alarm in his guardroom is directly connected to the military camp. Once an accident occurs, fully armed soldiers will arrive immediately. If you want to attack there, you must first defeat them
Guardhouse."
The CIA's observation point here is opposite Tapia Manor. Standing on the third floor, you can clearly see most of the manor's configuration.
"How is their staffing?" Kai asked as he watched a group of floral shirts patrolling inside and outside the manor with guns attached. By the way, why do drug dealers like Hawaiian floral shirts paired with gold necklaces and watches? It looked outrageous.
"There are at least fifty hotshots in the manor. These hotshots are not ordinary gangsters. They were arranged by Tapia to enter the military camp and undergo formal military training. Some of them were directly recruited by Tapia from retired soldiers.
After all, he has a lot of dollars."
Although relations between Cuba and the United States are very poor, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar in Cuba is still leveraged. Many Cubans prefer to receive U.S. dollars instead of their own currency.
"In addition, a full security system has been installed in the manor. Once someone breaks into the manor, the sensor will alarm. This is also a troublesome problem. We did not get his security design drawings. Tapia found this system himself.
It was installed by someone else, but my people didn’t handle it. So you can only solve it yourself.”
Kai nodded, indicating that he understood.
"What about the hostages?"
"We already know this. Their custody of the hostages is not too strict. Our people have already come into contact with her. She is in the second room on the west side of the second floor."
"Well, I understand. By the way, can you do me one more favor?"
"If I can do it."
"Don't be nervous, it's easy. Can you find me some small animals like cats, dogs, etc.?"
"It's okay, but...what's that for?" The Cuban guy was a little confused as to what Kai was going to do.
"Destroy the security system." Kai said very confidently.
The Cuban guy looked confused.
"Tsk." Kai smacked his lips and whispered something in the little brother's ear, and then he suddenly understood.
