Havana, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The US government prepares the way to deny extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, affirmed Cuban president Fidel Castro.

The head of state spoke at a round table broadcast Friday by national radio and TV from the biggest theater in this capital, where he denounced maneuvers of the George W. Bush administration on this issue.

Fidel Castro described as insolent the note of the State Department released today in which it rejects for “inadequate” and “lacking evidence” the petition by Caracas that Posada Carriles be detained provisionally attending to the extradition petition.

The bullyness and insolence of the note, said the Cuban leader who stressed US authorities kept silent for two months about the presence of the terrorist on US soil.

“The spokespersons have been mute, they said nothing because they were involved and will be even more implicated", he added.

He said now the White House has broken its silence “to show off like the neighborhood bully. You can´t expect anything else from them.”

Later on, the head of state affirmed the US government officials “are exposed as imbeciles before World public opinión”.

"They are a bit late to solve this with bullyness”, he indicated, in moments when the demands grow from different parts of the world, even inside the United States, for the Republican administration to comply with its international obligations against terrorism.

During the round table program, press reports were quoted showing the US stand of denying the Venezuelan petition of provisional arrest of Posada Carriles who is under custody in the United States but merely for migratory charges.

Other opinions were commented, including those of US personalities who refute the State Department note on the allegad lack of evidence in the Venezuelan petition.

Those affirmations take into account declassified documents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) that admit to the participation of Posada Carriles in the bombing of a Cuban plane with 73 persons on board, in 1976.

President Fidel Castro has denounced the complicity of several US administrations with terrorist anti Cuban groups based in Miami who were even financed by the White House.

According to his denounces, the intelligence agencies of that country knew beforehand of the plans to sabotage a Cuban civil airplane. Those agencies knew of the participation of Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch in those schemes, the latter indulted by president George Bush, father of the current US head of state.