EU Silent about Case of Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles

Madrid, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The European Union and the 25 governments that make up that regional bloc have remained silent about the case of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the Spanish Internet portal "Rebelión" criticizes.

"Rebelión" says that so far, neither the EU nor any governments of the so-called Old Continent has made a statement on that murderer, the most wanted terrorist in the Western Hemisphere and the confessed mastermind of the blowing-up of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed all 73 people on board.

The source points out that the attitude of the member-states of the European Union does not match Europe´s proclaimed fight against terrorism.

Major European media organizations, it says, have widely covered what has happened in the United States with Posada Carriles, and the repeated denunciations and demands by Cuban and Venezuelan authorities to have the murderer extradited and tried in Venezuela, from where he escaped in 1985.

However, adds "Rebelión", no statements have been made by the main leaders of the European Union, thus proving the Old Continent"s double standard on terrorism, the worst scourge affecting humankind since the late 20th century, according to analysts.