Thursday, November 8, 2007

Prosecutors appeal Posada Carriles case

U.S. federal prosecutors have filed an appeal against the release of Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles. Posada Carriles was let go by a Texas judge in May after the U.S. government was deemed to have used “deceit and trickery” in using a citizenship interview to get evidence against him. Yet prosecutors alleged that Posada Carriles lied on an application and during an interview to become a naturalized citizen, and that does not justify “the extreme sanction of dismissal.”

Who is Luis Posada Carriles and why is he such a sought after individual? An article by the AFP explains:

A Cuba-born Venezuelan national, Posada Carriles was jailed in Venezuela in 1976 for allegedly masterminding the downing of a Cuban jet off Barbados.

He escaped in 1985, was sentenced to eight years in jail in Panama for a 2000 bomb plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro, and was pardoned four years later.

US authorities are reportedly investigating whether Posada Carriles was involved in a 1997 Havana hotel bombing that killed an Italian tourist.

Sources- The Latin Americanist, ABC News, AFP, Associated Press

Image- ABC News (Anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, center, arrives at his wife's house in Miami, April 19, 2007, after being released from federal custody.”)

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:49 PM

    The AFP article also says that:

    "Declassified US documents show that Posada Carriles worked for the CIA from 1965 to June 1976. He also reportedly helped the US government ferry supplies to the Contra rebels who waged a bloody campaign to topple the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s."

    Something important that we shouldn't forget mentioning.

    By the way, A Venezuelan movie on the Posada Carriles' story is coming out soon. You can watch the trailer here:

    http://nomenclatura_films.spymac.com/Trailer_Bambi_Web/bambi_C4.html

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  2. Hodad12:18 PM

    another one that should be hung in public,

    he must be well protected in Miami from his contra coke running buddies in CIA DEA etc etc etc
    like North and Hazlewood

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