Former Mossad chief Rafael Eitan is visiting Cuba. Journalist Larry Luxner wrote in 1997 regarding Eitan's Cuban activities:
At the moment, the largest foreign citrus venture in Cuba is a $22 million project headed by Grupo BM of Israel, which is developing a 115,000-acre citrus operation in Jagüey Grande, in Cuba's Matanzas province. The plantation, largest of its kind in the world, aims to improve the export quality of Cuban citrus by using Israeli drip-irrigation technology, modern sorting machines and other innovations. In exchange for their know-how and capital investment, the Israelis get an unspecified share of the profits...BM...has consistently refused to talk to reporters ever since its president -- Rafael Eitan, former chief of the Israeli Mossad--set up operations in the Havana suburb of Miramar in 1993.
Currently, the biggest Israeli investor is Tel Aviv-based Grupo BM, which is behind an 18-building office complex in Miramar, a once-wealthy suburb of Havana. The $200 million project, known as the Miramar Trade Center, is managed locally by Inmobiliaria Monte Barreto S.A., an entity registered in Panama. The company’s chief is Enrique Rottenberg, an Argentine Jew living in Havana. Rottenberg refused to talk about BM’s activities. According to an official pamphlet, the project is being built in five phases and should be done by 2008. Dozens of Cuban state-run trading companies, foreign firms and embassies already have offices in the center, which is adorned with Israeli art.
Given the Castro regime's decades of anti-Semitism and support for Israel's enemies, this is, mildly put, a troubling situation. It would be as if Jesse Jackson had encouraged massive investment in apartheid South Africa. Common sense means you don't enrich your enemies.
