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 Travel & Outdoors | The Cuba Connection | April 2005 
Castro Demands Answers
 Wire services
| | Cuban President Fidel Castro holds a photo of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles during a press conference. |
Havana - Mexico should explain how Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles passed through its territory undetected en route to the United States, Cuban President Fidel Castro said Sunday.
Posada, who is linked to assassination plots against Castro and wanted in Venezuela for a 1976 Cuban airliner bombing, entered the United States illegally through Mexico in March. He filed papers seeking political asylum in the United States last week.
"The Mexican government should speak, because it's strange that such a notable gentleman should pass through Mexican territory and the authorities not say anything," Castro told reporters in Havana after casting his vote in countrywide municipal elections.
The Cuban leader also said Sunday that Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez should give up his bid to become the next chief of the Organization of American States.
Castro said that Derbez's chances of winning the currently deadlocked race against Chilean Interior Minister José Miguel Insulza are remote, beacuse "all the people and governments of Latin America and the Caribbean already know who the United States'candidate was." The U.S. government previously had backed Francisco Flores, a pro-business former Salvadoran president with close ties to Washington. But it abruptly changed course and threw its support behind Derbez, prompting accusations from Havana that the U.S. had made the switch to get Mexico to vote against Cuba in a United Nations human rights measure. |
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