Washington Protects Terrorists
US authorities freed two persons accused of assassinating Venezuelan prosecutor Danilo Anderson and are giving judicial protection to another suspect said the newspaper.
There is also total silence on the complicity of a former head of the Miami FBI and a CIA agent in the plot to kill Anderson, who was investigating the failed 2002 coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Just prior to his murder by a car bomb (similar to the bombs used by Cuban-American terrorists), Anderson had subpoenaed more than 400 coup supporters.
Granma quotes an article published by Caracas´ El Universal describing how, after 22 hearings and sentencing of three of the terrorist attack authors, the participation in Anderson´s assassination of former policemen Johan Peña and Pedro Lander, sheltered in Miami, is still to be proved.
According to Venezuelan government´s main witness, Giovanni Jose Vasquez De Armas, the former head of the FBI in Miami, and Hector Pesquera, participated in a meeting in Panama where Anderson´s assassination was planned.
Pesquera, personally related to known Miami terrorists like Jose Basulto and Horacio Garcia, knew of all terrorist plans against Cuba and Venezuela during the time he was FBI representative in Miami, said the newspaper.
On June 2001, Pesquera arrested Jose Guevara, one of the suspect´s cousins, on extortion charges, but for unknown reasons released him shortly thereafter.
While Washington protects three persons accused of Anderson´s killing and keeps FBI and CIA implications under wraps, five Cuban antiterrorism fighters are still behind bars.
The official protection granted to Peña, Lander, Guevara, Pesquera and to a CIA agent linked to Anderson´s assassination shows US authorities implication in terrorism activities against other countries, revealed Granma.
The newspaper also published how relations between Venezuelan and Cuban American terrorists are widespread and reach Posada Carriles´ circle of friends.
Thais Elizabeth Plaza de Zurilla, one of Anderson´s suspects, is the wife of Jesus Zurrilla, businessman Nelson Mezerhane´s pilot, denounced by the prosecutor, noted the newspaper.
The name of Nelson Mezerhane appears in the police report next to two of his accomplices, Venezuelan ex Gen. Eugenio Anez Nunez and Salvador Romani.
Romani is a Venezuelan lawyer of Cuban origin and a personal friend of international terrorists Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles.
According to Granma, Romani, together with Ricardo Koesling, attacked the Cuban Embassy in Caracas during the coup d´etat in April 2002.
He was also linked with Koesling in the attempt on Chavez´ life, discovered in 2004 with the arrest of paramilitaries in Daktari, owned by another Cuban emigrant Roberto Alonso, a Venezuelan and US citizen linked to the Miami mafia.