Posada Case Unveils US Policy
Havana, Jan 9, 2006. (Prensa Latina) The US government is about to totally ruin its anti-terrorist facade by the imminent release of its homicidal accomplice Luis Posada Carriles.
In a few days, attempts by the administration of President George W. Bush to shelter the notorious terrorist may become a reality.
If this happens, then Cuba's reiterated denunciations of the issue will be fully confirmed.
Cuban President Fidel Castro repeatedly inquired, without getting any answer, how Posada Carriles entered US territory and what role currently detained terrorists Santiago Alvarez Fernandez Magriñat and Osvaldo Mitat played in the operation.
For several months, the White House concealed the presence of Posada in the US, and even now it keeps silence about how he got there.
Washington also ignored the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's demands to extradite the criminal in line with extradition agreements signed between both countries.
It also ignores an international call to judge the confessed author of crimes including the blowing up of a Cuban civil plane in mid air, killing all 73 people on board in 1976, and bomb attacks against Cuban tourism facilities in 1997.
Instead of bringing the murderer of about a hundred innocent victims, the US government started a migratory proceeding against Posada Carriles for illegal entry in the US.
According to a report published in El Nuevo Herald daily, the Immigration and Customs Control Office notified Posada's lawyers that "his status will be revised on Jan 24."
It means that Posada might be released in a few days, under protection of a law that bans in definite detention of undocumented people whose deportation is not carried out within 90 days.
Immigration judge William Abbott had ruled Posada's deportation, to any country but Cuba and Venezuela, and the 90-day deadline is beginning to expire.
Despite there are plenty of laws to put Posada Carriles in jail, Washington makes fun of its own Constitution and prefers to release the notorious criminal.
Double standard, hypocrisy and cynicism remain as US banners in its alleged anti-terrorist crusade worldwide.