 |
|
|
 News from Around the Americas | January 2007 
Venezuela Demands Posada Justice
 Prensa Latina
| | An anti-Castro activist holds pictures of Luis Posada Carriles in Little Havana, Miami January 19, 2007. Cuba said on January 15 the United States should indict Carriles, a militant anti-Castro exile accused in the bombing of a Cuban airliner, for terrorism instead of minor immigration charges. The Cuban Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. government of protecting the former CIA operative from extradition to Venezuela to face charges of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976. (Reuters/Carlos Barria) |
Venezuela demands fulfillment of the extradition request it submitted to the United States for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, currently being prosecuted in that country for migratory fraud, lawyer Jose Pertierra said on Friday.
Interviewed on the Venezolana de Television program "En Confianza," Pertierra, who represents this country in the case, said that law does not give Washington another alternative to extradite him or try him.
"The only thing to stop these proceedings," added the lawyer, "is a legal charge other than terrorism."
Due to the pressure Caracas has exerted, the US administration aims to impute Posada with seven charges of migratory fraud, with sentences up to 40 years imprisonment if he is guilty.
As to that situation, the lawyer admitted that it is disappointing to try "a terrorist for being a liar" and not for his responsibility in the explosion in mid air of a Cubana airplane that killed 73 people in 1976.
He also recalled that among Posada´s other crimes are a series of bomb attacks on Havana hotels, in which Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo was killed. |
| |
|
Vallarta Weddings
Tell a Friend
Site Map
Print this Page
Email Us