Havana, Sep 21, 2006. (Prensa Latina) Cuban National Peoples Power Assembly (Congress) President Ricardo Alarcon denounced that US official declassified documents show the White House complicity in the death of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier. Alarcon summed up an act in Havana on occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death in Washington of Letelier, close collaborator of former President Salvador Allende, victim of the explosion of a bomb in his car. The legislative leader stated that 15 documents published Thursday in the US confirm that country s government knew of those plans to kill Letelier and abstained from any action to prevent them. This concerns exchanges among the Department of State, other governmental offices and US embassies, while the application of the Condor Plan included crimes against Latin American leaders opposed to dictatorships. Alarcon´s evidence confirms how US authorities knew of the agreement adopted by Chilean secret services and terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch to kill Letelier, as well as blow up a Cuban airplane. Despite that, said Alarcon, they allowed the attack and the criminal action against the Cubana de Aviacion plane off the Barbados coasts, which killed 73 people on October 6, 1976. One of the documents is the confession of a former US assistant secretary for Latin American affairs, shortly before dying, who attended the meeting held in Santiago de Chile where he was informed on those crimes. In spite of those documents and others previously published, nobody has asked inquired about, for instance, Orlando Bosch, who lives calmly in Miami, said the legislator. Alarcon mentioned how eight years ago, five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters were locked up with harsh sentences in US jails for gathering information about terrorist plots by anti-Cuban organizations in Miami, Florida, in an effort to prevent the deaths of Cuban and even United States citizens. "Letelier and all terrorism victims will live whenever we are capable of make them live, demanding punishment for those murderers and their accomplices," concluded the parliamentary leader. The act was attended by Jose Arbesu, vice chief of the International Relations department at the Cuban Communist Party, Chilean ambassador to Cuba Jaime Toha, and Tato Ayress, director of the Salvador Allende Memorial House. |