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Cuba Decries US Protection of Terrorists

VENEZUELA, November 10, 2009. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon decried in this capital the protection the United States has given to confessed terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch.

Both terrorists, residents in the southern city of Miami, Florida, were the masterminds of the explosion in mid air of a Cuban commercial plane with 73 passengers off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976.

For Alarcon, the freedom the US government has offered to those criminals contrasts with the severe punishments, of several life terms, against five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, whose real crime was defending their country from violent actions like the bombing to the DC-8 aircraft.

"The sanctions to Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez were to turn the attention and protect the terrorists," Alarcon told the Venezolana de Television program "Dossier."

According to the official, US authorities learned since 1994, four years before their detention, about the activities of the Five, as they are universally known.

According to Alarcon, Washington's stance in the case of Rene, Gerardo, Antonio, Ramon and Fernando prove the complicity with criminals Posada Carriles and Bosch.

March will mark five years that Posada Carriles walks freely in the United States, which neither processes or extradites him to Venezuela, where he escaped from prison to avoid being tried for the blast of the Cuban civil plane, Alarcon stated.

(Cubaminrex- PL)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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