CUBA, May 18, 2007.- Cuban journalists called for their colleagues throughout the world to condemn the release in United States of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and end impunity. Professionals and media workers met Thursday at the capital s Anti-Imperialist Tribune, under the nose of the US Interests Section, and criticized Washington s protection of Posada Carriles. Barbara Betancourt, from Radio Habana Cuba station, Juvenal Balan and Daysi Francis, from "Granma" newspaper, Jose Alejandro Rodriguez, from "Juventud Rebelde" daily, Carlos Alberto Gonzalez, a TV journalist and Jean-Guy Allard, from Granma International paper, denounced the terrorist s crimes. They also highlighted the international media silence over the release of the mastermind of a mid air explosion of a Cuban airplane in 1976 that cost the lives of 73 people and a series of bomb attacks in Havana hotels in 1997. Jose Antonio Martin, vice president of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, said according to some declassified documents from the US Department of State, Posada s plans in 1976 included attacks against Prensa Latina press agencies in Panama and Colombia. Among Posada´s new projects is to attack statesmen and leaders from social and left-wing organizations, but Cuban journalists will continue faighting with the truth the media campaign that tries to protect him, concluded Martin.(Cubaminrex-PL). |