Cuban Intellectuals Condemn Release of Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles CUBA, May 11, 2007.- "A monster has been set free; a monster that represents a monstrous system. That's why the United States will do everything possible to not bring him to trial, because it would be like putting itself on trial," said poet Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Thursday evening at the Jose Marti Anti-imperialist Tribune in Havana. In the gathering called by the Cuban Association of Writers and Artists (UNEAC), Retamar joined those repudiating the shelter the United States provides plane bomber Luis Posada Carriles. Poet Alex Pausides said the US government is protecting one of the best students of its school of assassins, a decision which he said shows the decadence of its judicial system. National Literature Prizewinner Nance Morejon said that poetry can make the truth prevail. She dedicated a poem to the Cuban Five, imprisoned for more than eight years in the US for having fought terrorism. Choral director Maria Felicia Perez expressed outrage at Posada's recent release. We need to join our voices and hands to change the course of the judicial farce that exonerated the criminal [Posada], said art critic Omar Valino. Posada has publicly confessed to the 1976 sabotage of a commercial Cuban airliner that took 73 lives and is credited with a string of Havana hotel bombings in 1997 and several attempts to kill President Fidel Castro and other Cuban authorities. (Cubaminrex-RHC
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