VENEZUELA , May 16, 2007.- The case of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is an example of "media Omerta" among big media organizations to keep quiet about a key issue, prominent Spanish journalist Pascual Serrano said on Wednesday. In statements to Prensa Latina in Caracas , the editorial advisor of the multinational TV station Telesur recalled that this Omerta (mafia pact) works among those groups when the reach consensus about hiding an issue from public opinion. The Spanish journalist said that the media silence is aimed at hiding the US government"s protection of the international terrorist, who was the brains behind the blowing-up of a Cuban civilian airplane off Barbados in 1976, killing all 73 people on board, and a series of bomb attacks on Havana hotels in 1997, as a result of which Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo was killed. Serrano, who is also founder of the digital publication Rebelion, is in Caracas to participate in an International Congress on Communication, which will open on Thursday and will be attended by prestigious journalists and intellectuals from Latin America, Europe and the United States . About the Telesur-sponsored meeting, Serrano noted the need to debate the property of the media, "because we are in a historic moment in Latin America ." (Cubaminrex-PL)
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