terrorist and mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles was freed April 8, 2011 Court of El Paso, Texas. He was not prosecuted for their terrorist activity, his murder, his bestial torture activities or their bomb explosions. He was prosecuted only for having lied to U.S. authorities. Among other things, for having lied about his central role in the terrorist attacks against tourist installations in Cuba in the 90s. But not for the terrorist attacks. The charge related primarily lies about how he entered the U.S. after being in December 2004 released from prison in Panama.
Reactions against friandet was strong and indignant. We reproduce here the Cuban Foreign Ministry statement.
Statement by Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
afternoon April 8 20 011 ended the farce that began 13 weeks ago in El Paso, Texas. The terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was freed from the charges made against him in a process that acted on an immigration matter.
For those familiar with the dark history of this terrorist, his ties to each successive U.S. governments and to the FBI and CIA, and his dirty war against Cuba, the release of him as further evidence of the patronage and the support that U.S. authorities traditionally been with him.
Since the moment he landed in Florida after that, as a passenger on the boat Satrina, have been taken from Isla Mujeres in Mexico - and even then it was condemned by our commander in chief Fidel Castro - has Posada Carriles, who always benefited from U.S. government auspices.
He has been accused of having gone to lie in a migration process - not because he is a terrorist. This is a blatant insult to the Cuban people and all families affected by the grief of his terrorist actions caused.
The shameless decision of the court in El Paso total violation of the official anti-terrorist policies that the U.S. government claims to pursue. A U.S. policy that, moreover, even led to military intervention and harvesting of thousands of people's lives.
U.S. government is well aware of Posada Carriles' role in the bombing of the passenger plane belonging to Cubana de Aviacion off Barbados in 1976, and about his involvement in bombing wave in 1997, which was directed against tourist facilities. As if his plan to assassinate Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000, he also was convicted of in that country.
U.S. government has access to all evidence relating to Posada's crimes, and much of the evidence was also presented during the trial in El Paso.
It remains to be seen whether the U.S. government's inability to either bring a new prosecution against Posada Carriles - a charge relating to his terrorist operations - or to meet requests for extradition to Venezuela - put forward by Venezuela for more than five years ago. U.S. government is formally required to consider the international agreements to be attached to the idea, and to consider the UN Security Council Resolution 1373, by 2001, a resolution which actually operated by the U.S. government.
It seems paradoxical that while Posada Carriles is acquitted as five Cuban anti-terrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States to gather information about terrorist activities. Terrorists of Cuban origin which, as Posada Carriles, walks free, and with impunity on the streets of Miami.
Cuba argue that the U.S. government is primarily responsible for the relationship in this way, and requires the U.S. government that it is complying with its commitments in the fight against terrorism, without hypocrisy and double standards.
Havana, April 9, 2011
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