CUBA, April 19, 2007.- Puerto Rican singer Danny Rivera said affirmed that the US deserves to be tried for war crimes, as well as war madness and racism expressed by the protection of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, among other examples. The killer goes free, and we could mention thousands of cases like this, he told in statements to Prensa Latina. Along with other singers, including Spanish-French Manu Chao and Uruguayan Daniel Viglietti, Rivera joined Wednesday the call circulated Sunday by the Network in Defense of Humanity titled, "Luis Posada Carriles must be tried for his crimes." The text denounces interminable pseudo legal maneuvers implemented by Washington to "deceive the international public" and its double standard in its war against terrorism "in the name of which they torture, kidnap and bomb." On Tuesday the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled without explanation to lift the emergency order, requested by the Justice Department, to block the release of Luis Posada Carriles, also wanted in Cuba and Venezuela for the 1976 mid-flight bombing of a Cuban plane. It raised the possibility of Posada Carriles going free on bail before his May trial on immigration fraud charges, while Washington refuses to try the terrorist for his true crimes. The number of notables from all over the world demanding the US government charge international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is increasing. The text was published Sunday by 153 world personages, and in these few days many other signatures have been added, including that of US novelist Gore Vidal, actor Danny Glover, historian Howard Zinn, writers Alice Walker and Russell Banks and pacifists Cindy Sheehan and Medea Benjamin. Other signatories are Tariq Ali, Pakistani writer and one of the most respected historians and political essayists of current times, US Julie Belafonte, French writer and journalist Sergio Berrocal, Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri, Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, Italians Ettore Scola (filmmaker) and Luca Zingaretti (actor), British thinker and writer Alan Woods, and Chilean storyteller Luis Sepulveda. (Cubaminrex-Granma)
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