Havana, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) Luis Posada Carriles, one of the terrorists of Cuban origin pardoned by the Government of Panama, is a confessed criminal that, as in other cases, was trained by the US to perform his vandalistic actions.

In an interview with The New York Times in 1998, Posada admitted to have organized bombings against tourism facilities in Cuba and received the support from National Cuban American Foundation (FNCA), extreme-right organization of the Cuban origin émigrés in the United States.

Although later he tried to deny his links with the FNCA, it is an open secret in Cuba and Miami that Posada Carriles has coordinated the far-right groups on their constant actions, which turns him in one of the most notorious terrorists at large.

Besides planning the assassination of Fidel Castro in 2000 in Panama, on the occasion of the 10th Ibero American Summit, an attempt that led him to jail in this country after the Cuban denunciation of his activities, he has been involved in other macabre plans.

Posada Carriles deserves universal rejection since 1976, when he orchestrated the explosion of a Cubana de Aviacion airplane that killed 73 people from different nations.

He left Cuba in 1961, joined the US army, and was trained and recruited in 1963 by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Posada was part of CIA infiltration group that carried out actions against Cuba and was related to terrorist groups such as Alpha 66, Comandos L and 30 de Noviembre Movement.

By the end of the 1960"s, he took the position of Chief of Operations of the Intelligence and Prevention Board of Venezuela, where he also was a CIA link.

In 1985, with the support of the FNCA, he escaped from the prison in Venezuela where he was serving, and went to El Salvador, where he worked as advisor of the Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary groups trained in that country.

He later moved to Guatemala and worked as a security advisor for Telefonos de Guatemala and after an attack that left him seriously injured, he went to Honduras to continue his terrorist activities, including the purchase of arms in Central America for Cuban-origin paramilitary groups.

The long résumé of Posada Carriles also includes an attempt against Fidel Castro in 1994 in Honduras, where he was waited for President Carlos Roberto Reina"s inauguration, and an infiltration of arms in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, for another attempt to assassinate the Cuban President during the 4th Ibero American Summit.

In 1995, he visited Costa Rica to dynamite a Cuban ship.

The following year, in interview with television channel 23 of Miami, along with also terrorist Orlando Bosch, both ratified the intention of continuing their terrorist activities against Cuba.

He has used mercenaries from other countries, what ratifies his character of international terrorist, as in 1997, when his accomplices prepared 14 bombs, out of which eight exploded in various Cuban tourism facilities and the rest deactivated.

The toll was one death and various wounded, besides the material damages on its attempt to affect the flourishing Cuban tourism industry.

He participated in a plan to assassinate the Cuban president in 1998 in the Dominican Republic and the project to blow another Cuban plane that flew between Havana and Central America.

He continued with similar plans in 1999 and 2000, until he was arrested in Panama while he planned to blow the main hall of the University during a ceremony President Fidel Castro would attend to speak to hundreds of Panamanians, who would have perished.

Despite all this, President of Panama Mireya Moscoso, a week before finishing her term, included Posada Carriles and three of his accomplices arrested in 2000 in a list of pardons, freeing one of the most dangerous terrorists of Latin America.