CUBA , May 18, 2007.- The liberation of Luis Posada Carriles has once again placed the United States in an embarrassing situation in its fight against terrorism. The liberation from a federal judge in an El Paso, Texas, court, where he was simply charged for migratory violations, is seen by Cuba as a new disgrace of the George W. Bush government. In September 2001, shortly after the Twin Tower attacks, Bush lashed out against those who protect terrorists and said they too would be considered terrorists. The self appointed world leader against terrorism was victim of his own trap by receiving on US territory the infamous assassin and fugitive from justice who has lethal crimes in several nations under his belt. A simplified overview of the terrorists acts of Posada Carriles reports him as confessed author of blowing up a Cubana de Aviacion plane in 1976 with 73 persons on board, 57 Cubans and the rest from other nations. Also, in 1997 he is implicated in a series of attacks on Havana hotels killing an Italian tourist, wounding several and causing material damages. Salvadoran mercenary, Ernesto Raul Cruz Leon, arrested and tried in Cuba for placing those bombs, declared in his trial that he was under orders of Ramon Medina, an alias of Posada Carriles. Granma daily revealed transcriptions of phone calls made by the terrorist to coordinate the sabotage against Havana hotels in 1997 and organize an attack on the life of Fidel Castro that same year. Cuban and Venezuelan chancellors, Felipe Perez Roque and Nicolas Maduro, respectively, place full blame on the US government for the liberation of the terrorist. Maduro reported that his government would reiterate the extradition demand of the confessed assassin, a request that has been ignored by Washington. Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega announced that he is also preparing a demand for extradition of Posada to be tried in his country for involvement in the 1980's contra scandal. Sending him to face trial is a solution that is ignored for well known reasons: Bush protects him as did his father to please the Miami anti-Cuban extremists. (Cubaminrex-PL). |