PARAGUAY, May 23, 2007.- The Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) demanded the United States of America adopt measures so that notorious international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles be tried for his crimes. Posada Carriles, ex CIA agent and perpetrator of a detonated Cuban airplane, was released from a New Mexico prison on April 19, where he had been detained for immigration charges after entering US territory illegally. The government of Caracas has demanded extradition from the US of the Cuban origin terrorist, who became a naturalized Venezuelan. A court of that South American country found Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch on November 2, 1976, guilty and co-authors of the mid-flight explosion of a Cuban airplane, in which 73 people lost their lives. In 1998, Posada Carriles, admitted in an interview with the New York Times his participation in the terrorist attacks against hotels and nightclubs in Havana, which took the life of an Italian tourist, Favio Di Celmo. Cuba also accuses Posada Carriles of having taken part in 16 terrorist attempts against embassies, cultural centers, and airline offices in the mid 70 s. MERCOSUR, formed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, reaffirmed in a text the value of the extradition as an essential tool in the fight against terrorism. The note, a communique published in Asuncion after a meeting of MERCOSUR foreign ministers on Tuesday, expresses that "terrorism can only be fought through justice. (Cubaminrex-PL)
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