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The Farce of El Paso Continues

The CIA Manages to Keep its Agent Posada Out of Reach

By JEAN-GUY ALLARD

The fifth-rate soap opera the CIA came up with to keep its agent Luis Posada Carriles free, in spite of his terrorist crimes and confusing the US public, is skipping gaily on: Judge Kathleen Cardone, from El Paso, Texas, in charge of the case, has granted the US government a new postponement until June 2, 2010.

The new court order had been signed by the Texan judge on April 12, 2010, but was not made public until today, when the president of the National Assembly, interviewed by the press after exercising his right to vote in Sunday’s elections, stressed how the five Cubans imprisoned in the US for monitoring the activities of terrorist groups in Miami were unable to exert their right to vote.

According to a report by the Prensa Latina news agency, Ricardo Alarcón revealed that in the meantime, "the trial against the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles continues to be postponed, by agreements between the government and the district attorney’s office."

Procedures accompanying Posada’s trial were scheduled for May 20, but the federal district attorney’s office, under the somewhat ridiculous pretext of having another commitment for that day, requested another postponement.

"The assembly was postponed on April 12, however, nothing has been said, I haven’t seen any report, not a single media outlet has reported it", commented Alarcón while underlining the absolute information blockade by both the news agencies and the mafia press in Miami.

The so-called assembly is nothing but an exchange between the district attorney’s office and the defense to agree on the orientation of the trial and the date it will take place.

This form of "justice" is something normal in the United States, where cases are prolonged by delaying procedures when the District Attorney’s Office and the defense have a common interest in this regard. On this occasion, the district attorney’s office needs to save Posada from extradition, something good for the defense which, in the meantime, continues billing from the fund of Posada’s "benefactors."

Ironically, Posada’s dossier is under the responsibility of the federal district attorney’s office of the antiterrorist section of the Department of Justice.

The current US administration –like that of George W. Bush- hopes to make people believe it has no evidence that Posada is one of the masterminds behind the explosion, in mid air, of a Cubana airliner in Barbados in 1976.

It doesn’t recognize either that his main accomplice, Orlando Bosch Ávila, who took refuge in Miami in July 28, 1960, is a terrorist.

Posada and Bosch are co-founders of CORU, the terrorist Coordinating Committee of United Revolutionary Organizations, the operations of which are among the bloodiest in the history of terrorism in the continent.

Posada was, for several decades, a regular collaborator and a confessed agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency, under the guidance of which he committed numerous acts of terrorism, tortured and made people disappear in counterinsurgency operations, while in Venezuela, as in Central America, he trafficked in weapons and narcotics and participated in several assassination attempts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

While Posada and his supporters want to justify their crimes based on the fact that he was following CIA orders, the attorney general’s office affirms that mentioning Posada Carriles’s links with the CIA is not pertinent for the study of the 11 charge presented. Judge Cardone banned the assassin’s lawyers from involving the CIA in his defense.

After the illegal entry of Posada into the United States five years ago, he was formally accused of minor charges beginning January 2007. His trial was first set for May 11 of that year. Three years ago!

And exactly four years have passed since Robert E. Jolicoeur, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in El Paso, Texas addressed a letter to Posada Carriles, under arrest at the time, in which he told him that he was "a risk to the national security of the United States." April 26, 2010. (Cubaminrex- Granma)

 

 

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