Managua, Jun 2 (Prensa Latina) Salvadoran Deputy Blanca Flor Bonilla demanded Wednesday that Washington extradite terrorist of Cuban origin Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela.

In a telephone interview with Prensa Latina, Deputy Bonilla said that was the position of her political party, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) of El Salvador.

FMLN demands respect for international conventions, and that the criminal Luis Posada Carriles be extradited to Venezuela, the first country to request his extradition.

The CIA-trained expert on demolition was allowed to escape from a minor security prison in Caracas in 1985 while awaiting a trial by appeal on the mid-air bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people in 1976.

She assured that FMLN is opposed to the extradition of Posada to El Salvador, as demanded by Salvadoran Third Court in San Salvador.

She said that the Salvadoran request is intended to protect the terrorist by using the pretext that he has pending forgery charges, which is a minor crime compared to the attacks, killings and tortures he committed as an operative of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

She pointed out that Salvadoran President Elias Antonio Saca and the leadership of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) are behind this decision, as ARENA protected Posada Carriles for years, under orders from Washington.

She remembered Posada escaped from jail in Venezuela in 1985, and was sent to El Salvador by the CIA as an advisor for armed groups, to try to defeat the triumphant Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, and he trained Salvadoran mercenaries to plant bombs in Cuban hotels in Havana. In one of the bombings an Italian tourist got killed.

The members of FMLN and the rest of the Salvadoran people reject the intention of the Salvadoran government to protect a terrorist, she said.

She finally announced that legislators from FMLN will introduce a new motion in the National Assembly against the Salvadoran decision.