Cuba Insists on Posada´s Extradition
Havana, Feb 8, 2006 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Juventud Rebelde newspaper has demanded Wednesday that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles be extradited to Venezuela to answer for his crimes or be tried in the United States.
"US maneuvers to send the notorious criminal to a third nation and evade justice are unacceptable," stresses the paper, reminding that Posada was the mastermind of a Cuban jetliner sabotaged in 1976 off the coast of Barbados killing all 73 people onboard.
It notes that the George W. Bush administration, with this covering-up policy, violates international agreements singed by the US such as the Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation, of 1971.
"According to that convention, if Washington rejects the extradition requested by Caracas, it is obliged to try the criminal on its territory as if the plane and passengers had been American," Juventud Rebelde underlines.
The paper quotes Cuban Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon slamming Bush´s complicity with Posada Carriles and accomplice Orlando Bosch.
It alludes to the terrorist´s jailbreak from a Venezuelan prison in 1985, helped by the US Central Intelligence Agency, before his trial for the so-called Barbados Crime.
Posada´s actions includes attacks against Cuban hotels in 1997 plus an attempt to assassinate President Fidel Castro during the 2000 Ibero-American Summit in Panama City.