CUBA, May 8, 2007.- Luis Posada Carriles terrorist record against Cuba included plans to attack Prensa Latina s offices in Panama and Colombia, according to declassified documents in the US National Security Archives. References to this news agency are included in a detailed list of Cuban targets in Latin America and the Caribbean, handwritten by Venezuelan citizen Hernan Ricardo Lozano in 1976 for Luis Posada Carriles, who was his boss at the time. "Prensa Latina. Cuban news agency; located at Av Jimenez Lopez 4-03. The Lender building, office No. 904. (Across from the Hotel Conti-)" [which presumably refers to the Hotel Continental]. This was the way Ricardo described the location of Prensa Latina s office in Bogota. He used a similar procedure for the news agency s office in Panama City: "Prensa Latina. News agency, located in the Bacena building. Floor 6 office 6B, 41st Street. Across from the Executive Panama Yacht Club. "The building of reference was built recently, it has 14 floors, two apartments per floor, prensa latina s (in small letters) is on the right going out," adds the note. Ricardo, who worked for the Caracas-based security company Investigaciones Comerciales e Industriales, headed by Posada Carriles, described the security systems at embassies and travel agencies in his notes. He also identified the cars used by Cuban diplomats (plate, model and color), itineraries of Cubana de Aviacion in Barbados, and addresses of Cuban consulates in Barbados, Trinidad, Colombia and Panama. At least five of those targets were attacked shortly after the terrorists set their sights on them, as in the case of the Cubana de Aviacion plane blown up off Barbados. In fact, Ricardo and another Venezuelan citizen, Freddy Lugo, were sentenced for their participation in the sabotage of that Cuban civilian airplane, which killed all 73 people on board in 1976. (Cubaminrex-PL) |