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Editor’s Note: <\/b>Here is original coverage from the Miami Herald archives of the case of a Cuban spy and a duped South Florida woman after the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996.<\/i><\/p>\n

Read more DNA ties man accused in other cases to girl\u2019s assault in Miami Beach: cops<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lawsuit targets a very personal injury<\/h2>\n

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Published Aug, 4, 1999<\/b><\/p>\n

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By Liz Balmaseda<\/p>\n

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In her soon-to-be-published memoir, Ana Margarita Martinez tells the story of her final night with the man she thought she loved. On that night, in February 1996, she made love to her husband, slept sweetly at his side, kissed him goodbye as he went off on a business trip.<\/p>\n

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She describes feelings any wife would have for her beloved husband.<\/p>\n

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Three years and a few spy stories later, Martinez has come to view that tender final sequence in a different light:<\/p>\n

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It was rape, she charged Monday in a personal injury lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. And the rapist who prowled in her bedroom for 11 months was not a lone man, but an entire government, the government of Cuba.<\/p>\n

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Her dream husband, it turned out, was a spy for Fidel Castro, a double defector who surfaced in Havana the same weekend that Cuban fighter jets shot down two Brothers to the Rescue planes, killing four civilian crewmen.<\/p>\n

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Not only did Martinez marry Mr. Wrong, she married a phantom. She was left to ponder empty dresser drawers and piece together the subtle clues of their final days together. In the larger scheme, she seemed insignificant. After all, unlike the four crewmen, she had survived Roque\u2019s deception.<\/p>\n

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But the damage, she says, has proven indelible. The tragedy turned many in the exile community against her, thrust cameras into her home, forced her to grieve in public for the husband she never truly had. Was she a spy or a blind fool, people hissed.<\/p>\n

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Like many jilted spouses in a nasty divorce, Martinez, 39, a mother of two, worked out her anguish during intense therapy sessions. But unlike your typical divorcee, she could not confront her ex. He had vanished.<\/p>\n

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She fantasized about getting even. But how would she do it?<\/p>\n

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Her answer came when she met lawyer Fernando Zulueta. Intrigued by her dilemma, he researched the federal statutes. He found the law required more than evidence of fraud to indict a sovereign nation. But if he could establish personal injury, he could make a case.<\/p>\n

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Besides, he found a precedent in a 1995 Florida case, Hogan vs. Tazvel, in which a woman sued her husband for sexual battery after he infected her with genital warts. In that case, Zulueta points out, the court ruled that the woman\u2019s consent to marital sex was nullified by her cheating husband\u2019s deception.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRoque married Ana to establish a cover,\u201d the lawyer says. \u201cIn doing so, basically, he was raping her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It seems a ludicrous charge. Wouldn\u2019t the same apply to any marriage annuled for reasons of fraud? If so, doesn\u2019t such a lawsuit open the floodgates of litigation for deceived spouses everywhere, even in this no-fault state?<\/p>\n

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The difference, says Martinez, is that her ex was not your ordinary cheating husband. He was an employee of an enemy state.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe managed to infiltrate not only the exile organizations, but every part of her life,\u201d says Miami writer Diana Montane, who coauthored Martinez\u2019s book, Estrecho de Traicion (Straits of Betrayal), which is to be published locally.<\/p>\n

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For Martinez, the case is not about the fine points of law. \u201cThis is about fighting back,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, she\u2019s heard Roque remarried – and is going through a divorce. She\u2019s heard he wasted no time in finding new mates.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is number three since he got back to Cuba,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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But for her, closure has been elusive. The only thing that has come close has been filing this lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOf course you could say I\u2019m bringing it all back to the public eye, but it\u2019s different this time,\u201d she says. \u201cThis time, I\u2019m in control.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arguing her case in court<\/h2>\n

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Published March 15, 2001<\/b><\/p>\n

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By Liz Balmaseda<\/p>\n

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Ana Margarita Martinez left a Miami courtroom this week as a virtual multimillionaire because she married the wrong guy – or, depending how you look at it, she married the right guy.<\/p>\n

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Martinez, a 40-year-old mother of two, sued the Fidel Castro government for sexual battery because the man she believed to be a loving, faithful husband, Juan Pablo Roque, turned out to be a Cuban spy.<\/p>\n

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A Miami-Dade Circuit judge agreed Cuba should pay $7.175 million in compensatory damages for inflicting such hardship on Martinez. Martinez could get a lump-sum check as soon as that money, drawn from frozen Cuban assets, are cleared by President Bush.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, her ex proved to be a dangerous man working for a lethal regime. In mock exile, Roque posed as a church-going volunteer for Brothers to the Rescue. His abrupt flight from Miami to Havana coincided with Cuba\u2019s shootdown of two Brothers planes, causing the deaths of three Americans and one U.S. resident.<\/p>\n

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As Martinez\u2019s husband, Roque proved to be a bastard, snookering her into marriage, then vanishing.<\/p>\n

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But if you take Cuba out of this equation, you have to wonder what makes Roque any different from other men who pronounce marital vows they never intend to keep.<\/p>\n

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Every woman who has ever been dumped can understand the impotence Martinez felt that day when she stared into his emptied dresser. I bet there\u2019s a working-class mother somewhere in this city who woke up today to a similar shock and now, scared and broke, contemplates the fraud that was her life.<\/p>\n

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What about the unsuspecting wives of drug dealers, terrorists and pedophiles? Or those used for their money? I\u2019m sure their pain is no lighter.<\/p>\n

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I asked Martinez these and other questions. Here\u2019s how our woman-to-woman went:<\/p>\n

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Q: What makes your heartache any different from any other woman\u2019s heartache?<\/p>\n

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A: The difference is we\u2019re talking about a government here. We\u2019re talking about a marriage that was controlled by the Cuban government. In order for this man to have married me or even dated me, he had to get approval.<\/p>\n

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Q: What about the love you felt for him – that wasn\u2019t controlled . . .<\/p>\n

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A: That\u2019s why I was so easily fooled. I was just a pawn. That\u2019s what really disgusts me.<\/p>\n

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Q: Let\u2019s talk about those frozen assets, which by law can be made available to victims of terrorism or their relatives. How are you a victim of terrorism?<\/p>\n

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A: I was used for the purpose of terrorism.<\/p>\n

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Q: One can argue that those funds belong not to the Castro government, but to the people of Cuba . . .<\/p>\n

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A: If Fidel Castro had fallen, I wouldn\u2019t have sued. But what if the embargo gets lifted tomorrow? He could put that money in a Swiss bank account.<\/p>\n

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Q: But consider this scenario: Castro dies next year, clearing the way for a democratic Cuba. Will you still take that money, which could be used to rebuild the nation?<\/p>\n

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A: I\u2019m going to be part of rebuilding Cuba. I expect to support worthy causes like the dissident movement, which I\u2019ve always supported.<\/p>\n

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Q: Even if this verdict does hit the Castro government, it doesn\u2019t appear to even touch Roque. As a woman, doesn\u2019t that leave you where you started?<\/p>\n

Read more Cuba reacts: Indictment of Raul Castro is pretext for U.S. attack on the island<\/a><\/p>\n

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A: He\u2019s nothing but a puppet. I\u2019m sure he\u2019s stewing because, due to his actions, I won this lawsuit. He knows his actions indirectly hurt his government. Look, the man doesn\u2019t have a day of peace in his life, whatever is left of it. Too many people want his head – I wouldn\u2019t give you a dime for it. He\u2019s in God\u2019s hands. This is good enough for me.<\/p>\n

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Jilted wife of spy sins $7.1 million<\/h2>\n

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Published March 10, 2001<\/b><\/p>\n

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By Jay Weaver<\/p>\n

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The jilted former wife of Cuban spy Juan Pablo Roque was awarded more than $7 million in damages Friday by a Miami judge who declared Cuba committed acts of sexual battery, torture and terrorism by orchestrating Roque\u2019s sham marriage so he could infiltrate the exile community.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis court finds that as the unwitting victim in a plot among terrorists that was targeted, used and injured in furtherance of acts of international terrorism, Ms. [Ana Margarita] Martinez herself is the victim of a terrorist act,\u201d Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Alan Postman ruled.<\/p>\n

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Postman said he wanted to impose a separate $20 million award in punitive damages against Cuba for its \u201crepugnant, contemptible and reprehensible\u201d actions. But he could not because Cuba has sovereign immunity under federal law.<\/p>\n

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The judge\u2019s award of $7.175 million in compensatory damages took into account Martinez\u2019s emotional pain and suffering, including not only the alleged sexual battery but also the ridicule by some exiles who labeled her as Roque\u2019s ally in his spy mission.<\/p>\n

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To collect the civil judgment, her attorneys will rely on an anti-terrorist law to pursue frozen Cuban assets in this country – an arduous process that will involve finding the assets, garnishing them and then obtaining President Bush\u2019s approval to tap them.<\/p>\n

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Cuba chose not to defend itself in Martinez\u2019s suit, saying in a diplomatic note that the U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over its government.<\/p>\n

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Last June, Postman found Fidel Castro\u2019s government liable. Following a brief damages trial last month, the judge decided to award $175,000 a year for the rest of Martinez\u2019s expected lifetime, to age 81.<\/p>\n

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Martinez, 40, an executive secretary with two teenage children from a previous marriage, had mixed feelings.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe only disappointment is I don\u2019t think the award gives Cuba a hard enough blow,\u201d said a teary Martinez. \u201cI wish it could have been higher, not so much for my sake, but for the Cuban government to feel more pain from this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roque, described as a dashing pilot who portrayed himself as an anti-communist, left Cuba in 1992 and dated Martinez for three years before marrying her. He used the marriage as a front while he infiltrated the exile community and, in particular, the Brothers to the Rescue, which searches for Cuban rafters at sea.<\/p>\n

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Roque abruptly left Miami on Feb. 23, 1996. His shocking identity was revealed during a CNN interview in Havana on Feb. 26 – two days after Cuban jets shot down two Brothers planes, killing four fliers.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Roque] was a bad actor, but the real bad egg was the Cuban government,\u201d said attorney Fernando Zulueta, who represented Martinez.<\/p>\n

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In his 22-page opinion, Postman said Roque, as an agent of the Cuban government, committed sexual battery on Martinez because he did not have her \u201cinformed consent to having marital relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The shootdown and subsequent revelation of Roque\u2019s identity shattered Martinez\u2019s life, the judge wrote. Roque was eventually indicted as part of a spy ring that allegedly conspired to penetrate U.S. military establishments. Five of his co-conspirators are now on trial in federal court.<\/p>\n

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In the civil case, Postman said the Castro government pulled all the strings behind the scenes, including Roque\u2019s marriage to Martinez, without any concern for the fallout.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMs. Martinez was emotionally distraught and devastated by the revelation,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cBetrayed and alone, she suffered the criticism of some members of the local Cuban-American community who doubted her sincerity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSome members of the local community ostracized Ms. Martinez, mistakenly suspecting that she might have known her husband was a Cuban spy. She allegedly was accused on some radio programs of conspiring with Roque.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Following the shootdown, three of the four fliers\u2019 families sued the Cuban government. In 1997, U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King awarded the families about $50 million in damages, plus $35 million in sanctions against Cuba.<\/p>\n

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But citing national security interests, President Clinton would not unfreeze Cuban assets to pay the judgment – at least not until Congress passed a law last fall to take care of terrorist victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n

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Last month, the U.S. government transferred about $93 million, including interest, in frozen Cuban bank accounts to the Brothers families.<\/p>\n

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Attorney Scott Leeds, who also represented Martinez, said it might take a couple of years to unlock more blocked Cuban assets for his client, but he expects cooperation from the Bush administration.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the scheme of things, you couldn\u2019t ask for a better administration,\u201d Leeds said. \u201cBoth on a state and federal level, it will be well received. . . . This was truly a terrorist act. You don\u2019t let that money go back to [perpetrators] of terrorist acts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wife of Cuban spy has her own mission: a new life<\/h2>\n

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Published April 20, 1996<\/b><\/p>\n

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By Armando Correa<\/p>\n

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Two months after her husband Juan Pablo Roque abandoned her to return to Cuba in a much-publicized double defection, Ana Roque is trying to start a new life.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had a lot of trouble dealing with the truth,\u201d she said Friday. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe that the man I married, the man I loved, had betrayed me. After reviewing the past, remembering conversations, and rereading his book, I\u2019ve become convinced that he was just performing a mission\u201d for the Cuban government.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy mission now is to wipe him from my mind — with God\u2019s help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Juan Pablo Roque, 40, who arrived in Miami in 1993 identifying himself as a Cuban air force defector, disappeared Feb. 23 from the Kendall home he shared with Ana, 35, and her two children.. The next day, two Cessnas flown by the volunteer group Brothers to the Rescue were shot down over the Florida Straits by Cuban warplanes. Four civilian crewmen died.<\/p>\n

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Days later, Roque appeared on Cuban television, accusing Brothers to the Rescue — an organization he joined in 1993 — of colluding with the CIA to commit acts of sabotage on the island. Little is known of his activities since he returned to Cuba.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne day I\u2019m going to make a barbecue and burn everything connected with him,\u201d Ana Roque said Friday.<\/p>\n

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She is seeking an annulment of their two-year marriage and wants to regain her maiden name: Ana Margarita Martinez.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe doesn\u2019t deserve a divorce,\u201d she said. \u201cIt must be as if the marriage never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ana Roque\u2019s principal income comes from her job as a bank secretary. Also, she has received numerous cash donations from members of her church, \u201cwith which I\u2019ve paid for my children\u2019s private school. Now I\u2019m trying to sell the car Juan Pablo left behind and other items we bought together.\u201d The monthly payments on the car are $227.<\/p>\n

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In one of the interviews he gave in Cuba, Juan Pablo Roque said that what he missed most from his Miami stay was his Jeep Cherokee. Right after Juan Pablo\u2019s departure, \u201cI took (tranquilizers) and went about in a daze, weeping, but now things have changed,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel stronger, like a different woman. There\u2019s neither hatred nor anger in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But she would be careful before getting married again. \u201cI think I could trust another man,\u201d she replied, \u201cbut first I would have him investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Roseanne goes on wild rant on why she may move to Florida<\/a><\/p>\n

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