GUATEMALA , May 3, 2007.- Nobel Peace Prizewinner Rigoberta Menchu reiterated her support to the Cuban people s fair cause and rejected the release in the US of Luis Posada Carriles, mastermind of several terrorist actions against the Revolution. "I have always identified with the struggle for Cuba s free determination," the candidate to Guatemala s presidency told Prensa Latina, by explaining her joining the international call for Posada Carriles trial. Menchu, along with Nobel Prizewinners Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nadine Gordimer, Harold Pinter and Zhores Alfiorov, is on the list of some 5,000 world figures who demand trying that infamous terrorist. Posada Carriles is the mastermind of the 1976 mid-air explosion of a Cuban airplane that killed 73 people, among them the island s fencing team. He prepared in 1997 a series of bomb attacks in Havana hotels, in which Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo was killed, and organized an assassination attempt against Cuban President Fidel Castro, on occasion of his visit to that country in 2000. About 100 Guatemalan political, social and cultural figures, as well as several organizations joined the document demanding to try Posada Carriles. (Cubaminrex-PL)
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