One of the things many of our readers may not be aware of is that one of the most active battlefields in the fight against castro communism has been Puerto Rico. castro has long funded the Puerto Rican independence movement as it’s been a personal obsession for him. Since there’s a sizeable exile community in Puerto Rico the situation is often tense between the castroites and the anti-castro exiles. There’s been violence, dirty tricks, etc.
20 years ago in Puerto Rico there were hearings under something called “la Comisión de Derechos Civiles de Puerto Rico” (The Puerto Rican Commission for Civil Rights). These hearings were controlled by the PSP (Socialist Party of Puerto Rico) and were essentially a witch hunt against their political enemies.
One of the many people subpoenaed to appear was Antonio de la Cova. Yes Dr. de la Cova before he earned his Ph. D. He was working as a journalist for a magazine called Crónica Gráfica. de la Cova spent six years in Puerto Rico exposing the castroites and many of their plots, generally giving them hell. As a result they tried to make de la Cova’s life miserable. They didn’t succeed. Quite the contrary, as the video below proves.
The video is a clip from a Puerto Rican news broadcast in which de la Cova takes on the president of the commission, Enrique “el chino” Gonzalez who de la Cova describes as a known defender of communists accused of terrorist acts.
For those who don’t espic espanish de la Cova is the guy who is showing some papers to those gathered. He is saying that Gonzalez doesn’t have the moral authority to preside over the commission since he has been accused by a woman named Dinorah Diaz (allegedly DIaz’ young mistress at one time) in an affidavit of setting her car on fire. Gonzalez loses his mind and has to be physically restrained as he challenges de la Cova to settle the matter “man to man” outside the hearing room.
Of the video, de la Cova says:
The balding guy behind me, with white shirt and mustache, is Castro agent Ricardo Fraga, co-owner of Viajes Varadero with Raul “El Bizco” Alzaga. The audience included Macheteros and other Puerto Rican terrorists, there to intimidate me. There were an equal number of militant Cuban exiles in the audience…
Gonzalez ended the hearings that day and rushed to Dallas to get cardiac treatment.
por la reaccion del presidente de esa comision parece que el viejo es culpable cuando De la Cova saco debajo de las mangas esa informacion del carro
No he parado de reirme con este video…super comico lol
asi hay que hacer con estos personajes exponerlos en cualquier foro
They can’t handle the truth
This is a classic example of how leftists uphold civil rights: the president of the civil rights commission tries to suppress freedom of speech and then challenges the deponent to fisticuffs. Note how Chino Gonzalez is wildly stuttering after he jumps out of his seat like a jack-in-the-box. He needed anger management lessons. No wonder Gonzalez died soon after that of a heart attack.
Henry were this related to El Cerro Maravilla?
‘Cause for the life of me I can’t remember these. Do you have the exact year? Maybe I was too young to remember.
Although I don’t remember these hearings, sadly I can tell you not much has changed in Puerto Rico.
These goons still exist, as can be attested by last year’s riot inside the capitol in which the case that houses the PR constitution was cracked. All because some senators were honorning Julito Labatut for his business success (he owned a flower shop), who was accused by the socialists of having killed, if I remember correctly, the owner of a company that offered trips to Cuba.
The hearing in the video was in October of 1987.
Man, I love de la Cova.
The hearing in the video was in October of 1987. No wonder I don’t remember!
I was turning 17 and celebrating at the Heidelberg Tavern with dark beer!!
All kidding aside, I wasn’t into politics then, so I had no clue this even went on. Shame on me.
La Ventanita:
This was years later after the Cerro Maravilla hearings and had nothing to do with it. Here is the description in YouTube:
En 1987, la Comisión de Derechos Civiles de Puerto Rico estaba controlada por izquierdistas, entre ellos: Su presidente Enrique “Chino” González, conocido abogado defensor de comunistas acusados de actos terroristas; su asesor legal, Franklyn Rivera Irizarri, miembro del Comité Central del Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño (PSP); y su director ejecutivo Yamil Suárez Marchand, colaborador de los Círculos Cristianos por la Abolición de las Armas Nucleares que dirige la terrorista convicta Lolita Lebrón. El 23 de octubre de 1987, la comisión citó bajo amenaza de desacato al periodista Antonio de la Cova, director de la revista Crónica Gráfica en San Juan, Puerto Rico. De la Cova exhibió documentos señalando al “Chino” González como responsable de un acto terrorista, por lo que el iracundo González retó a de la Cova a encontrarse con él “de hombre a hombre.” De la Cova acusó a González de no tener moral para presidir la Comisión de Derechos Civiles. González falleció el 15 de julio de 1990, a los 70 años de edad, tras sufrir un derrame cerebral durante un argumento legal en el tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico.
The Commission was investigating how information about suspected Machetero terrorists and Castro agents in Puerto Rico was being leaked to the newsmedia and appearing in Cronica Grafica. They subpoenaed journalists, FBI, the US Attorney, and other federal agents in San Juan, but none of them attended, claiming that commonwealth authority had no power over federal authority. I was the only journalist who appeared under the threat judicial contempt.
Chino Gonzalez went berserk because he knew beforehand that I had those police reports, which are public documents. He thought that I would not dare expose him. My three pro bono Cuban American attorneys, including Sergio Ramos and Guillermo Toledo, advised me not to reveal the documents during the hearing after I told them of my intention. I followed my own instinct, which had better results.
A month earlier, when I was called before a closed-door session of the commission, they asked me at its conclusion if there was anything I wanted to say. Just then, Chino got up to “go to the bathroom” and left the room. I gave another commission member, Yamil Suarez Marchand, copies of the complaint documents and told him “I want this commission to investigate this unsolved case of terrorism.” The commission never investigated my request.
The woman whose car was blown up, Dinorah Diaz, a Dominican in her 20s, was Chino’s paramour. He bought her a lavish house in Bayamon and when she started having an affair with her youthful neighbor two years later, Chino told her to get out, but she refused because the house was under her name. Chino then ordered his Machetero associates to intimidate her. They machine gunned her bedroom window and blew up her car in the carport.
I was later told by a cop who was on the commission security detail that right after my hearing ended, Chino had his shirt open and was massaging his heart, while his wife Justina Carrion kept asking him who was Dinorah Diaz, and why he did not refute my accusation. Gonzalez quickly terminated the commission hearings and rushed to Dallas for cardiac treatment. He never fully recuperated after that and died three years later.
A few days after Chino’s death, Cronica Grafica received a giant “Thank You” card signed by dozens of Puerto Rican attorneys who believed that the confrontation was the start of Chino’s health demise.
Aquí tienen el historial del viejito iracundo, publicado en Crónica Gráfica, cuyo temperamento lo llevó tempranamente a la muerte:
Enrique “Chino” González Velázquez nació en Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, en 1920. En 1945 contrajo matrimonio con Justina Carrión. Recibió el título de abogado en 1949.
En 1964, defendió a la subversiva MIRIAM CRESPO RIVERA, acusada en los motines en la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
El 17 de enero de 1965, fue fundador del CONGRESO PUERTORRIQUEÑO ANTICOLONIALISTA.
Defendió en 1970 a AUGUSTO PLARD FACUNDO, acusado de colocar una bomba en el oleoducto de Cataño.
El 31 de julio de 1970 era abogado con LUIS F. ABREU ELIAS, LIUDMILA RIVERA BURGOS, BALTAZAR QUIÑONES ELIAS, LUIS ARCHILLA LAURIEL, FERMIN B. ARRAIZA MIRANDA y MIGUEL MATOS COLON, de algunos de los 20 miembros del Movimiento Independentista Revolucionario Armado (MIRA) acusados por actos terroristas, caso M70-2144 al 2163. El MIRA lo dirigía Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, quien fundó Los Macheteros en 1976, y recibían armas y entrenamiento en Cuba.
En 1978 fue abogado defensor de MIGUEL CABRERA FIGUEROA, acusado del asesinato del abogado Alan Randall atribuido a los Macheteros. También defendió a los subversivos Pupa Trabal, Ana Livia Cordero, Carlos Fortuño, y otros, acusados de colocar bombas en lugares públicos en Puerto Rico.
En 1979 defendió a JOSE ADORNO MALDONADO, acusado del secuestro del bolitero Miguel Pellicea Moll por los Macheteros.
En 1979, Dinorah Díaz, una dominicana que era ejecutiva de Dominicana de Aviacion, en Miramar, recibió de su amante “Chino” González, el título de propiedad de una lujosa casa en Río Hondo, Bayamón. Ella posteriormente tuvo relaciones con su vecino, y le dijo al viejo “Chino” que no quería saber de él. A Dinorah le quemaron su carro en la marquesina de su casa, el cual se lo ayudó a apagar su vecino. También le ametrallaron la casa. Dinorah se querelló en el cuartel de Bayamón Norte, que entonces dirigía el coronel Feliciano, y dijo que ella sospechaba del Chino porque había recibido unas amenazas escritas y le ponían su nombre con “H” aunque ella firma sin “H”, pero en su inscripción de nacimiento y propiedad de la casa aparece con “H” y el único que sabía ese dato era el Chino González. El caso lo investigó el agente Irizarry pero no hubo suficientes pruebas para acusar a González.
En 1988, González fue abogado de MANUEL DE JESUS SANTIAGO, acusado de perjurio en el caso del fuego del hotel Dupont Plaza.
En 1989, renunció de la Comisión de Derechos Civiles por una disputa con miembros del Partido Popular en la comisión, que no quisieron nombrar al comunista FRANKLIN RIVERA al cargo de director ejecutivo de la comisión.
Falleció el 15 de julio de 1990 tras un derrame cerebral en el Tribunal de Carolina mientras argumentaba durante en una vista de supresión de evidencia. Fue inhumado en el cementerio Buxeda de Cupey.
Señor de La Cova , no cree usted que el incomodo que tuvo el Chino con usted en dicho video haya propiciado el deterioro de la salud de dicho excremento
Wow, De la Cova was not to be messed with, even back then.
I was a little distracted however, by the news anchor who stole my high school graduation hairdo.
Tony looked like Serpico. He should have taken up the challenge for a fight. Tony was in his early thirties and looked fit and trim. The bluffing Chino was 67 years old, squat and dumpy. It would have been no contest. The Chino would have died of a heart attack from the first punch.
Oye, mulatica, te acuerdas del dicho cubano: “¿Búscate un chino que te ponga un cuarto?” A los chinos cubanos les encantaban las mulaticas y las llevaban a trabajar a su tren de lavado.