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Luis Posada's arrest in
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Luis Posada CarrilesCuban exile terrorist with a very long pedigree. Fabian Escalante: “Los que protegen hoy a Posada son los mismos que conspiraron contra Kennedy” 1/12/2011 Cuba Debate Articles in the Press on Posada Cariles Terrorists’ accomplices run the CANF,. Granma, 5/25/01 Luis Posada Carriles
and the Cuban American National Foundation:
Coca Contra lives on, 3/00 Class Action Suit against the CIA Letter to Janet Reno
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¿La última
fiesta para el terrorista Posada Carriles en Miami? 7/9/2015 Contrainjerencia: "El
texto aborda en detalle los vínculos de la CIA con “individuos supuestamente
involucrados” con el sabotaje al avión—y citan directamente a Hernán Ricardo
Lozano, Freddy Lugo, Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch, Frank Castro, Orlando
García, Ricardo Morales Navarrete y Félix Martínez Suárez—aunque concluyen que
la CIA solo había establecido contacto en el pasado con Posada Carriles, Bosch y
Martínez Suárez, en distintas circunstancias y roles."
Cuba-USA Try to Skirt Dead Ends 2/12/2015 OnCuba: "Some politicians from
the Cuban émigré community demand that Havana hand over fugitives from US
justice like Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, an African-American woman who
was a Black Panther leader and is sought by US authorities for the murder of a
police officer in the 1970s. They seem to be unaware of the fact that an
extradition agreement is reciprocal and would force the United States to deport
many Cuban exiles accused of crimes, including Luis Posada Carriles, sought for
the bombing of a Cuban commercial airliner that killed 73 people."
Senador socio de terrorista CIA amenaza a “cualquier” país que otorga asilo a
Snowden 7/8/2013 Kaos en la Red: "Menéndez es este miembro del Senado quién
se reunió el 17 de mayo de 2011 con Luis Posada Carriles, en un restaurante de
West New York, para felicitar el viejo asesino para su indulto por un tribunal
tejano, una operación dirigida por nada menos que Roger Noriega, el ex alto
funcionario del Departamento de Estado. El senador famoso por sus lazos con la
mafia, tanto italiana que cubanoamericana, es un aliado fiel de la Representante
por Miami Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, la también Presidente del “Fondo de defensa” de
Posada."
Cuban-American lawmakers press White House to keep Cuba on terror list 4/28/2013 The
Hill: [Where is the mention of the known killers being protected by Ileana Ros -
Posada, Bosch, and the rest?]
Cómplice de Posada Carriles reitera apoyo a candidato opositor venezolano 9/14/2012 CubaDebate: de
Jean Guy Allard - "Ricardo Koesling, el directivo del partido político Piedra
que declaró a “los chavistas los vamos a sacar a plomo, a golpes, a patadas o a
lo que sea” al proclamar que sigue apoyando al candidato derechista Henrique
Capriles Radonski, a pesar de los titulares, es el capo de la mafia
cubanoamericana de Miami en Caracas, y el representante en Venezuela de la red
terrorista de Luis Posada Carriles."
Muere investigador norteamericano que vinculó a Posada Carriles con asesinato de
JFK 9/3/2012 CubaDebate: "Pero algo más que ese complot interesaba al
investigador del asesinato de Kennedy: “No era el plan principal, pero un
subcomplot que Veciana identificó como urdido por el cerebro de Posada”. “Al
igual que Oswald fue utilizado para ser el chivo expiatorio en la conspiración
para asesinar a Kennedy, Posada concibió un plan donde un insospechado co-
conspirador era creado para ser el ‘chivo’ del complot a fin de asesinar a Fidel
Castro. “El experto de contrainteligencia, David Phillips, aseguraría luego, por
supuesto, que esas fotos tendrían una distribución mundial después del asesinato
de Castro. El plan completo se derrumbó cuando los pistoleros se congelaron en
el último momento.”
Nominan como Jefe de la Policía en Puerto Rico a persecutor de los Cinco 3/29/2012 CubaDebate: "Otro
detalle de su biografía asociada al criminal internacional que organizó el
estallido del avión: su hijo, Ed Pesquera, hizo desaparecer el expediente de
Posada Carriles mientras se acercaba el juicio del terrorista internacional, de
acuerdo con revelaciones del diario Washington Post."
Narcoterrorista Matamoros, cómplice de Posada: ¡Welcome in the United States! 1/31/2012 TeleSur: Por:
Jean-Guy Allard - "Durante el acto celebrado en el Teatro “Manuel Artime” de
Miami, convocado por Unidad Cubana, federación de grupos extremistas tolerada
sino auspiciada por el FBI, Matamoros -ya con más de 75 años de edad- se
apareció entre los “héroes” de la conspiración mafiosa de Panamá, impulsada y
promovida por la llamada Fundación Nacional Cubano Americana (FNCA). Condenado
por la justicia Panameña a siete años de cárcel, una sentencia complaciente
cuando se considera que el atentado hubiera provocado cientos de muertos,
Matamoros recuperó su libertad por el indulto de la presidenta Mireya Moscoso,
cuya ilegalidad acaba de ser pronunciada."
Vividores y terroristas. La "familia" se reúne en Miami 1/23/2012 Cambios
en Cuba: "Reina LuisaTamayo vuelve a posar con Posada. En la foto ( de izquierda
a derecha Luis Conte Agüero, el terrorista Posada Carriles y la Dama de Blanco
Reina Luisa Tamayo."
El amor de Reina Luisa Tamayo por Posada Carriles 1/23/2012 Yohandry: "El
papel del gobierno en todo esto, si bien durante décadas se mantuvo encubierto,
ahora se hace cada vez más cínico. En las fotos de la reunión de la ortodoxia
terrorista de Miami, junto a Posada y Reina Luisa Tamayo, aparece el congresista
David Rivera, otro de los defensores reconocidos del Ben Laden de América."
¿Y si Posada Carriles no fuera cubano? 1/15/2012 Isla Desconocida: "Pero no
ha pasado de ahí; vuelvo a repetirlo, porque Cuba no secuestra, porque Cuba no
ejecuta a personas fuera de la ley, aunque tenga el derecho moral de hacerlo.
Así es Cuba. Así es la Revolución. Así es Fidel y así es Raúl."
Lo que
los medios ocultan La madre de Orlando Zapata aparece con el terrorista Posada
Carriles 12/22/2011 Rebellion: "Recordemos cómo Reyna Luisa Tamayo hacía su
entrada a EEUU, en junio de 2010: "Ya aquí, en (Estados Unidos), el país de la
libertad, descansarán en paz las cenizas (de mi hijo Orlando Zapata)" (5).
Curiosa “paz” la que preconiza esta ciudadana, que enterró a su hijo en el
mausoleo de la Brigada 2506, junto a los mercenarios que trataron de invadir
Cuba en 1961 por Bahía de Cochinos; que pide en cada entrevista más sanciones y
más bloqueo económico a su propio pueblo: y que, ahora, da su apoyo público a
uno de los mayores fanáticos y criminales de la historia reciente del
continente."
El ADN del mercenarismo cubano: Reyna Luisa Tamayo con Posada Carriles 12/17/2011 Isla
Mia: "La foto aparece en un post del blog de Emilio Eichikawa sobre lo activo
que anda por estos días Conte Agüero. Un enlace, remite a una colección de fotos
del diario La Voz de la Calle donde figuran parte de lo mejor de la flor y nata
de los intocables terroristas de Miami, durante la última reunión anual del
Partido del Pueblo Cubano Ortodoxo, encabezado por Conte Agüero, donde se hizo
un homenaje a los opositores cubanos."
Luis Posada Carriles' U.S. Asylum Application Re-Opens JFK Unsolved
Assassination 11/12/2011 John-F-Kennedy.Neet
Sticky fingers at “Ladies in White” in Cuba 10/28/2011 Machetera: "One of
the “Ladies” sponsors, with financing from Washington expressly for this
purpose, is a U.S. Army veteran, Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, who runs the Cuban
Democratic Directorate [Directorio Democrático Cubano], an NGO that receives
substantial USAID funding to carry out subversive activities in Cuba. Gutiérrez
Boronat is also a former member of the terrorist Organzation for the Liberation
of Cuba [Organización para la Liberación de Cuba.] Like the terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles, Gutiérrez Boronat is connected with the right-wing extremists
from the ARENA party in El Salvador. The money earmarked for the “Ladies” and
other members of the opposition network fabricated by the USIS was “frozen” for
a number of months in Washington in reaction to the various fraud scandals
uncovered by the General Accounting Office (GAO), in which very well-known
individuals from the Cuban-American mafia were involved."
BROTHER OF POSADA VICTIM TO ROS-LEHTINEN: "You don’t even see the terrorist
within!" 2/10/2011 Granma: "The names of Posada Carriles and his associates
are always appearing in available declassified documents, he notes. "I learned
that in the U.S., members of Congress are among those who have lobbied on behalf
of these terrorist criminals. In fact, your name, Ms. Lehtinen, appears time and
time again." "In this open letter, I wish to express the extreme indignation and
revulsion that I feel knowing that there are people like you in the U.S.
Congress who are so blinded by hatred for the legitimate leaders of Cuba that
your twisted minds consider Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch as heroic
patriots."
El
Paso Diary: Day 14 in the Trial of Posada Carriles - The Battle for the Passport 2/8/2011 CounterPunch
El
Paso Diary: Day 14 in the Trial of Luis Posada Carriles - Posada Carriles Sleeps
Like a Baby 2/7/2011 CounterPunch
El
Paso: Day 13 in the Posada Carriles Trial - The Soap Opera Matters More Than the
Truth 2/4/2011 CounterPunch
El
Paso Diary: Day 12 of the Posada Carriles Trial - Questions Are Not Evidence,
But They Sway 2/3/2011 CounterPunch
El
Paso Diary: Day 11 at the Posada Carriles Trial - Judge Cardone at the Center of
the Drama 2/2/2011 CounterPunch
Former CIA Asset Luis Posada Goes to Trial 1/24/2011 The Nation: by Peter
Kornbluh, head of National Security Archive
Posada: A Voice From the Past 1/20/2011 CounterPunch: "Looking at Posada, I
realized something very curious. The section for the audience is located in the
back of the courtroom, behind the desks and seats where the trial lawyers are
seated. Observing from the back, Posada and his three attorneys are on the
left-hand side, while the attorneys for the prosecution and the FBI agents
supporting them are seated on the right. The back of the courtroom where the
audience sits has three rows on each side. The section behind Posada was empty
except for one seat that was occupied by a solitary woman, while the three rows
behind the prosecutors were filled to capacity. It was as though no one wanted
to approach the man the world recognizes as a terrorist, while the United States
accuses him of only of lying."
The
Trial of Luis Posada Carriles 1/19/2011 CounterPunch: "Hernández affirmed
that the government of Cuba has a longtime prejudice against Posada Carriles. He
spoke of "50 years of dictatorship and tyranny against the Cuban people" and
threatened to present historical examples of "Castro's tyranny." Reardon
responded forcefully, "This is not the History Channel." He stated that the
prosecution is thinking of bringing two Cuban police officers and a doctor to
the court. At that very moment, Reardon turned to face Posada Carriles. He fixed
his gaze on him and told him: ". . . so that they might testify about the death
of that poor Italian. Remember?" he told him with his voice raised. Posada
Carriles didn't look back. He didn't even blink, his blue eyes cold as ice."
Fabian Escalante: “Los que protegen hoy a Posada son los mismos que conspiraron
contra Kennedy” 1/12/2011 Cuba Debate: de Jean Guy Allard - "Para Fabián,
que investiga desde años cada aspecto del asesinato del mandatario
estadounidense, varios de los personajes que hoy siguen vinculados al mecanismo
terrorista que da apoyo a Posada, se encontraban ya entre los miembros de la
Operación 40, montada por la CIA paralelamente a la fracasada invasión de Playa
Giron para liquidar a los dirigentes de la Revolución cubana y reprimir a sus
partidarios. Y es entre estos agentes y colaboradores criminales de la CIA que
aparecieron varios individuos vinculados al asesinato, en Dallas, de John
Fitzerald Kennedy. “Esto es la mata de todos los terroristas,” señala Escalante
acerca de esta organización fundada por la CIA que sigue activa, con locales en
el centro de Miami, beneficiándose de la complacencia e incluso la protección
del FBI y de los Fiscales federales… Además de Posada, siguen exhibiéndose hoy
en Miami, Félix Rodríguez Mendigutía, el asesino del Che; Antonio Veciana,
fundador de Alpha 66; Orlando Bosch, cómplice de Posada en la destrucción de un
avión civil cubano; Guillermo Novo Sampoll, asociado al asesinato del ex
ministro chileno Letelier; Virgilio Paz Romero y Jose Dionisio Suarez, los
ejecutores del crimen; Gaspar ‘Gasparito’ Jimenez Escobedo, asesino de Artagnan
Díaz Díaz; Pedro Remón Rodriguez, asesino de Felix García Rodriguez y Eulalio
Negrín, en Nueva York; Jose Basulto y otros más."
Congresista Connie Mack tiene historial de vinculos con red de Posada Carriles 1/11/2011 Vos
el Soberano, Honduras: "En 1989, el propio padre del representante para el
distrito 14 de la Florida, el Senador Connie Mack III (McGillicuddy), y la
entonces candidata al congreso Ileana Ros-Lehtinen fueron los políticos que
llevaron la campaña para la liberación en EE.UU. del terrorista Orlando Bosch,
el jefe de la organización terrorista internacional CORU. Bosch y Posada
Carriles fueron quienes ordenaron, organizaron y financiaron en Caracas, en 1976
la destrucción en pleno vuelo de un avión civil cubano, provocando la muerte de
sus 73 ocupantes."
THE CIA FILE ON LUIS POSADA CARRILES 1/11/2011 National Security
Archive: "As the unprecedented trial of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles begins
this week in El Paso, Texas, the National Security Archive today posted a series
of CIA records covering his association with the agency in the 1960s and 1970s."
Former CIA Asset Luis Posada Goes to Trial 1/8/2011 Global Research: "In
the annals of modern justice, the Posada trial stands out as one of the most
bizarre and disreputable of legal proceedings. The man identified by US
intelligence reports as a mastermind of the midair destruction of a Cuban
airliner—all seventy-three people on board were killed when the plane plunged
into the sea off the coast of Barbados on October 6, 1976—and who publicly
bragged about being behind a series of hotel bombings in Havana that killed an
Italian businessman, Fabio Di Celmo, is being prosecuted for perjury and fraud,
not murder and mayhem. The handling of his case during the Bush years became an
international embarrassment and reflected poorly on the willingness and/or
abilities of the Justice Department to prosecute crimes of terror when that
terrorist was once an agent and ally of America. For the Obama administration,
the verdict will carry significant implications for US credibility in the fight
against terrorism, as well as for the future of US-Cuban relations."
En la Televisión Cubana nuevas revelaciones sobre Luis Posada Carriles 1/7/2011 Cuba
Debate: "En el proceso judicial de dos días que tuvo lugar en la Sala de los
Delitos contra la Seguridad del Estado del Tribunal Provincial Popular de Ciudad
de La Habana, Chávez Abarca reconoció plenamente su culpabilidad al describir
las circunstancias de su reclutamiento y de las operaciones que Posada le
encargó. En un momento del interrogatorio de más de 200 preguntas que le hizo la
Fiscalía, el acusado cuenta como viajó a Cuba con explosivos escondidos “debajo
de la plantilla” de sus zapatos."
Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group 12/4/2010 Fire
Dog Lake: "In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group Las damas
de blanco (the Ladies in White). This group receives US government funds and the
convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a friend and
supporter. Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Argentine Madres
de Plaza de Mayo as saying that “the so-called Ladies in White defend the
terrorism of the United States.”
Zacarias
dirigió el asesinato de tres diputados ARENA que viajaban con $5 millones 11/17/2010 Contrainjerencia: "Jean-Guy
Allard.- El venezolano Victor Rivera Aguaje, alias “Zacarias”, viejo colaborador
de la CIA y socio de Luis Posada Carriles , fue parte de la estructura criminal
que mató a los tres diputados salvadoreños asesinados en Guatemala en febrero de
2007, revela la investigación que también descubrió que los representantes del
partido ARENA llevaban consigo cinco millones de dólares."
Enlace entre Posada Carriles y Chávez Abarca es asesor del Partido ARENA de El
Salvador 9/30/2010 Cuba Debate: de Jean Guy Allard - "José Ramón Sanfeliú
Rivera, el gerente de Talleres Moldtrok, de San Salvador, que reclutó a
Francisco Chávez Abarca como ayudante de Luis Posada Carriles, se desempeña en
la actualidad como asesor del partido de extrema derecha ARENA, principal grupo
de oposición salvadoreño."
The devil wore white: Luis Posada Carriles and Ladies in White go out on a limb
in Miami with Gloria Estefan 3/26/2010 Machetera
Posada Carriles y las Damas de Blanco, “amigos para siempre” 3/26/2010 CubaDebate
La corrupción en la campaña mediática del imperio contra América Latina 12/14/2009 Cuba
periodistas: por Jean-Guy Allard - "Para alcanzar sus objetivos, la VOA usará
las instalaciones de producción de Radio y TV Martí lo que, según el rotativo
mafioso de Miami, ha alimentado "especulaciones de que las estaciones Martí
acabarán pasando a formar parte de la VOA". Radio y TV Martí han sido sacudidos
por varios escándalos de corrupción, en los últimos años. Lo más divertido es
que Alberto Mascaró, quien anunció la nueva orientación de la VOA, es nada menos
que el sobrino de la esposa de Pedro Roig, director general de Radio y TV Martí,
corporación famosa por dedicarse a contratar a las amistades de sus "capos". Ex
director de la Interamerican Military Academy de Miami, Roig fue formado por la
CIA en Fort Benning al lado del terrorista internacional Luis Posada Carriles,
como sicario de la Operación 40, con vistas a la fracasada invasión de Playa
Girón."
Entregan a
bloguera medalla hecha “con plata de la dictadura de Batista” 12/9/2009 Aporrea: por
Jean-Guy Allard - "Según los organizadores del “acto”, la condecoración es
compuesta “por un peso de plata de los que circulaban” en los tiempos de la
dictadura sanguinaria de Fulgencio Batista. Los fundadores del Comité
paramilitar de la FNCA y que hoy dirigen el CLC, entre los cuales Diego Suarez,
Alberto Hernández Alberto Hernández y Ninoska Pérez-Castellón (esposa del
terrorista Roberto Martin Pérez, encabezaron las ágapes entrecortadas de
discursos caracterizados por su fanatismo de extrema derecha. El comité
paramilitar de la FNCA sufragó a Posada Carriles durante sus campañas de terror,
en 1997, en territorio cubano y orientaron la compra de un millonario arsenal de
armas por Antonio “Toñin” Llama, destinado a acciones terroristas de gran
envergadura."
Italia: jefe de los 23 agentes CIA condenados “traficó” en Honduras, con la red
de Posada 11/7/2009 Habla Honduras: "“Bob” Seldon Lady, el ex jefe de la
estación de la CIA en Milán, quien dirigía a los 23 agentes de la CIA condenados
en Italia por secuestrar, torturar y luego ‘desaparecer’ al clérigo musulmán Abu
Omar en la ciudad italiana de Milán en el 2003 era un elemento clave de la red
que desde Honduras y El Salvador, con John Negroponte, Félix Rodríguez
Mendigutía y Luis Posada Carriles traficó armas contra cocaina a favor de la
Contra nicaraguense, cuando se encontraba en América Central en los años 80."
Honduras: el proveedor de gases israelíes, un viejo socio de la conexión
Bush-Posada 9/26/2009 Cuba Debate: "Yehuda Leitner radicado en Honduras,
denunciado como proveedor de armas y gases tóxicos a la dictadura hondureña de
Roberto Micheletti, es un ex oficial del ejercito israelí quién perteneció en
los años 80 a la red de contrabando del multimillonario Gerard Latchinian, que
abastecía en armas a los cubanoamericanos Felix Rodriguez y Luis Posada Carriles
en sus operaciones luego conocidas cómo escandalo Iran-Contra. Rodriguez y
Posada manejaban entonces la escandalosa operación de venta de droga contra
armas, encubierta por Bush George padre, vicepresidente de la administración
ultraderechista de Ronald Reagan. La Canciller del gobierno constitucional de
Honduras Patricia Rodas, denunció este viernes 25 de septiembre en Wastington
como “fuentes de la inteligencia militar leales a Zelaya” informaron que “los
químicos y armas del asedio (de Brasil en Tegucigalpa) han sido proporcionadas
por las empresas Alfacom e Intercom”, propiedad del ciudadano israelí Yehuda
Leitner, que “sirvió de intermediario con Israel”."
Meet Pepe Hernández, CANF’s terrorist president 9/18/2009 Machetera: "For
Francisco José “Pepe” Hernández, the head of the Cuban American National
Foundation, Luis Posada Carriles is not a terrorist. The terrorist Hernández,
who strives to advise President Obama, made this statement in an extremely long
interview distributed from Miami by the Associated Press, in which he also
admitted to having worked in different parts of the world on behalf of the CIA.
Pepe Hernández directly arranged the plans to assassinate Cuba’s president in
Panama, in the year 2000. It’s the second time this year that Hernández has
acknowledged his links with the torturer, murderer and drug trafficker who,
along with Orlando Bosch, planned and ordered the mid-flight destruction of a
Cuban airliner in 1976, causing the death of 73 people."
Un nuevo jefe del FBI para Miami 9/7/2009 Cuba Debate: por Jean Guy Allard
-- "En Miami, Gillies retoma la herencia pestilente de Jonathan I. Solomon y de
Héctor Pesquera, ambos cómplices de la mafia terrorista cubanoamericana del
lugar, el primero por su complacencia ciega y el segundo por su colaboración tan
alegre como escandalosa. Solomon es quién tuvo el poco envidiable privilegio de
acoger en Miami a Luis Posada Carriles. Dejo a los servicios de inmigración la
tarea de manipular la papa caliente, sin nunca considerar el estatuto de
terrorista del septuagenario ex agente de la CIA, responsable de 73 homicidios
por haber organizado la destrucción en pleno vuelo de un avión civil cubano. El
22 de junio del 2006, cuando el terrorista José Antonio Llama, ex directivo de
la Fundación Nacional Cubano Americana (FNCA) reveló al Miami Herald como
entrego 1,4 millones de dólares para la compra, entre otras cosas, de aviones
teleguiados para bombardear a grandes concentraciones de personas en Cuba,
Solomon, no valoró importante inculparlo e investigar la trayectoria terrorista
de la FNCA."
HONDURAS’ Cuban Connection: Coup AND Assassination Attempts? 8/23/2009 Honduras
Oye: "In an article he wrote (translated by Machetera) in early July, Dr. Nestor
Garcia Iturbe, identified a network of Cuban terrorists that was involved in the
coup against President Zelaya. Among them was Ralph Nodarse, owner of Channel 6
TV in San Pedro Sula and good buddy of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. The
following article written by Miguel Angel Ferrer suggests that not only was
Nodarse involved in the coup, but was an active participant in assassination
attempts against President Zelaya. And. as if this is not enough, let’s remember
that the next stop for Cuban terrorist, Armando Valladares, the darling of the
Reganites, is supposed to be Honduras."
Durante los atentados de La Habana, Posada recibió protección de Embajada USA 8/7/2009 Granma: "Mientras
dirigía desde El Salvador los atentados de La Habana, el terrorista
internacional Luis Posada Carriles realizó un viaje a Europa y Africa, en una
operación de tráfico de armas. Estuvo entonces asilado en la Embajada de Estados
Unidos en la República de Sierra Leona, con pasaporte salvadoreño falso, durante
el golpe de estado que lo sorprendió en ese país, el 25 de mayo de 1997."
Aseguran que brazo derecho de Posada se refugió en Honduras 7/31/2009 Aporrea: "A
finales de septiembre del 2005, Chávez y 21 miembros de su banda fueron
arrestados bajo cargos de robo de automóviles y estafa. Las autoridades
aseguraron entonces que se trataba de "una de las principales estructuras del
crimen organizado dedicadas al robo y hurto de vehículos a nivel nacional y
centroamericano". Según la prensa salvadoreña, la investigación reveló que el
brazo derecho de Posada había desarrollado “conexiones” con empleados de
aduanas, agencias de trámites de documentos de tránsito e instituciones públicas
y privadas. La operación realizada por la policía salvadoreña, denominada
Tormenta, incluía una serie de allanamientos en San Salvador, Soyapango, Ciudad
Delgado, Santa Tecla y hasta… Ilopango, el refugio de Posada durante años."
Ricardo Maduro, “héroe” de la ultra derecha, y protector de Posada Carriles 7/28/2009 CubaDebate: "Ricardo
Maduro, el ex presidente de Honduras que participó en el criminal golpe de
Estado contra el presidente constitucional, Manuel Zelaya, y que acaba de ser
acogido en Washington por los congresistas de la ultra derecha cubanoamericana,
fue quien presidía el país centroamericano cuando Luis Posada Carriles se
refugió ahí en el 2004 para quedarse durante más de seis meses, con la
tolerancia evidente de su gobierno. Maduro está realizando una gira en Estados
Unidos, adonde lo invitaron los miembros de la pandilla cubanoamericana del
Congreso. El ex candidato presidencial John McCain, viejo socio de la mafia
miamense, y la representante republicana, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen le organizaron una
reunión en el Capitolio con una decena de sus colegas."
Detrás de la
“democracia” de Micheletti, el esbirro CIA Billy Joya y sus “Cobras” 7/23/2009 Aporrea: "El
siniestro "Doctor Arrazola" – versión hondureña de Luis Posada Carriles y de
Klaus Barbie – está limpiando la policía nacional de sus altos
oficiales“blandos” para situar en cada puesto estratégico a elementos fascistas
Para evitar el derrumbe de su régimen golpista, Micheletti y sus cómplices están
ahora jugando su última carta: los escuadrones del “ministro-consejero” Billy
Joya, creador con sus asesores yanquis de “Los Cobras”, comandos de élite
entrenados para matar, y veterano miembro del siniestro batallón 316 creado por
la CIA que persiguió, torturó y desapareció a cientos de hondureños en la guerra
sucia de los años 80. Nombrado ministro del gobierno ilegitimo por Micheletti,
Billy Fernando Joya Améndola, puro producto de la “preparación” de oficiales de
cuerpos de represión hondureños prodigada por la inteligencia fascista argentina
bajo orientación de la CIA, está recomponiendo su maquinaria de terror para
acabar con la rebelión popular."
Honduras Coup Chooses Path of Rogue Narco-State 7/4/2009 NarcoNews: "One of
the big backers of the coup d’etat has been an international terrorist network
of ex-Cubans, who have financed the dirty work of jet plane bomber Luis Posada
Carriles over the years and have set up business interests in Honduras. These
forces are desperate now that Washington is making the moves to ease and end the
embargo of Cuba. Investigative journalist Guy Jean-Allard reports, via TeleSur,
that Ralph Nodarse – ex-Cuban owner of Channel 6 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras –
and arms-and-drug trafficker Rafael Hernández Nodarse are knee deep behind he
coup-plotters in Honduras. The latter aided and abetted Posada Carriles to hide
out in Panama in 2004. There was likewise a strong nexus between the Honduras
government and military and the 1980s Iran-Contra
drugs-for-arms-for-Nicaraguan-paramilitaries scandal, where much of the illegal
covert US cocaine smuggling operation was headquartered during the Reagan and
Bush Senior presidencies. The government of Venezuela has accused that former
State Department official and anti-Castro ex-Cuban Otto Reich is involved with
the current coup regime in Honduras. Reich, at State during the 2002 coup in
Venezuela, was the US official that called ambassadors from throughout Latin
America into his office when the coup was taking place to instruct them that the
US supported the coup and expected the same from them (that move backfired when
Latin American nations delivered the first-ever rebuke to the US via the OAS).
He was also at State in the mid-1980s heading up Latin American operations and
has been strongly linked to the cocaine-smuggling activities then. Those who
think that when the US cuts off funds, as it will surely do in the coming days,
that the sanctions will starve the Honduran coup regime into surrender, are
forgetting that in this asymmetrical world there are non-government entities –
which is to say, organized crime, terrorist, and narco-trafficking organizations
– that seek a safe haven in Central America, so important in the route between
the South American coca plant and the noses of North America."
Presidente
Chávez: Inteligencia estadounidense y Luis Posada Carriles planearon magnicidio
con cohetes en San Salvador 6/2/2009 Aporrea: “Y este atentado que se
estaba preparando (…) fue por la gente de Posada Carriles. Le exijo al
presidente Obama que cumpla con la ley. Mándenos a Posada; debe estar en
prisión”, pidió a su par de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama. También especificó que
los servicios de inteligencia de EE UU están “detrás de todo esto, no estoy
acusando a Obama. Más allá de Obama hay un imperio, eso está vivito, sus
tentáculos, sus asesinos y sus paramilitares”.
Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455 - A Glimpse
into the Mind of a Terrorist 5/2/2009 CounterPunch: published 4/06
Bush wants to impose Posada Carriles on Honduras 8/29/2008 Granma: [History
of the Bin Laden of the Americas]
Sudden order for Posada to stand trial 8/15/2008 Granma: "BARELY three days
after the vice president of Panama confirmed that his country is to apply for
the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, the Court of Appeals in New Orleans,
which has broken records in its slowness in considering the case, has suddenly
ordered that the terrorist be tried in El Paso on charges of immigration fraud."
Posada may face extradition to Panama 7/2/2008 Sun Sentinel
Cuba: US carried funds to opposition 5/19/2008 USA Today: "Cuba said the
funds came from the Miami-based Fundacion Rescate Juridica, headed by Santiago
Alvarez, a Cuban-American businessman once convicted in the U.S. of conspiring
to collect military-style weapons to overthrow Cuba's government. Alvarez is
currently serving a 10-month prison term for refusing to testify against Luis
Posada Carriles, the alleged mastermind of bombings of a Cuban jetliner and
hotels, and of assassination attempts on former President Fidel Castro… Rescate
Juridica also arranged US$2,400 (euro1,540) for the "Ladies in White," an
opposition group whose members include dissident Laura Pollan, officials said."
Posada, the Exiles and the CIA Failed - Cuba Will Live 5/19/2008 CounterPunch
Luis Posada Carriles, a terror suspect abroad, enjoys a 'coming-out' in Miami 5/7/2008 LA
Times: "No, the man being honored by 500 fellow Cuban Americans at a sold-out
gala was Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative wanted in Venezuela on
terrorism charges and under a deportation order for illegally entering the
United States three years ago. Posada, 80, has mostly kept a low profile since
his release from a Texas prison a year ago and a federal judge's dismissal of
the only U.S. charges against him -- making false statements to immigration
officials. But recent events like the Friday dinner and an exhibition and sale
of his paintings last fall show that the man who spent his life trying to topple
the communist government of Fidel Castro has returned to the social forefront of
this city's exile community."
Cuba, Venezuela Rap US in Terrorism Case 3/19/2008 AP: "Cuban Ambassador
Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz called the 80-year-old Posada, a militant opponent of
Fidel Castro's communist regime, "the most notorious terrorist of the Western
hemisphere." He said there is sufficient evidence linking Posada to "some of the
most infamous crimes of the 20th century" including the bombing of the Cubana de
Aviacion jet over Barbados that killed 73 people, the Iran-Contra scandal and
the bombings of Havana hotels in 1997. Deputy Venezuelan Ambassador Aura
Rodriguez de Ortiz accused the United States of ignoring a request made nearly
three years ago for Posada's extradition, calling him "a known international
criminal and terrorist and fugitive of Venezuelan justice." The United States,
she said, is bound not only by the 1922 U.S.-Venezuelan extradition treaty but
by international treaties on terrorist bombings and the safety of civil aviation
"to extradite or submit his case for prosecution without any exception."
Serious legal questions loom for Posada 2/25/2008 Miami Herald: "Luis
Posada Carriles, the anti-Castro Cuban militant, celebrated his 80th birthday
this month at an undisclosed location in Miami, but many serious legal and
political questions about his alleged crimes as a younger man still loom as
large as ever. In New Jersey, Posada is the ''target'' of a federal grand jury
investigation into the series of 1997 tourist-site bombings in Havana, his
attorney Arturo Hernandez confirmed to The Miami Herald. Posada has long denied
any involvement in the bombings. In Washington, Posada's alleged role in the
bombing of a 1976 Cuban airliner that killed 73 people is being revisited by a
Democratic lawmaker from Massachusetts who plans to hold congressional hearings
on the matter in the spring. And Posada's immigration status remains an issue
with the Justice Deparment, which is pressing its appeal of a Texas judge's
decision to dismiss an indictment that charged the Cuban with lying about his
2005 entry into the United States."
CIA continues to manage Miami terrorist groups 2/8/2008 Granma: ""The
terrorist organizations in Miami intensified their operations against Cuba in
the 1990's with attacks from the sea and hotel bombings, one of which killed an
Italian tourist in 1997. These terrorist activities were violations of U.S. law,
but U.S. law enforcement authorities, including the FBI, did not stop them,"
Agee said. "Why?" he asked, and then went on to explain, "In my opinion it's
because the CIA has never ended its involvement with these terrorist groups. In
Miami the Agency has close liaison with the FBI and local police, and all they
have to do is ask for hands off these organizations and nothing will be done.
For me there is no other explanation for the impunity with which these
terrorists have broken U.S. law over so many years and continue to do so," Agee
continued, citing the cases of Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles."
Miami: terrorists provoke aggression against pacifists demanding Posada’s arrest 1/14/2008 Granma
Bamby C4, New Film about International Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles 12/28/2007 Cuba
Now: "A new film exposing some of the criminal actions, the personality and life
of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is in its final production stage
in Cuba. Bamby C-4 is the title of the movie, which was shot in Cuban and
Venezuelan localities. It reveals aspects of the youth and old age of the
renowned criminal, author of among other violent actions of the 1976 bombing in
mid air of a Cubana airliner, off the coast of Barbados and which claimed 73
innocent lives."
Nicolás
Maduro: Detrás del caso de Antonini Wilson está el poder que protege a Posada
Carriles en EEUU 12/14/2007 Aporrea
‘Posada knows too much’ - Fabían Escalante, former chief of Cuban intelligence,
speaks 7/19/2007 Progresso Weekly: ""Then [Posada] disappeared in El
Salvador, showed up in Yucatán and entered the United States at the direction of
his bosses. Posada would have never done that without express orders. His
handlers told him: 'Come here and we'll do the same with you that we did with
Orlando Bosch.' "But they hadn't counted on the actions of supportive people, of
independent journalism. Then came the denunciations and the evidence. The
pressure from Cuba has been very decisive, so decisive that [the people in
Washington] probably wouldn't have done what they had to do. Consider the Cuban
denunciations, the combative marches, the round tables, the open forums, the
international solidarity; all these are pressure mechanisms that have forced the
U.S. to do, which is to try him as an illegal immigrant." "
The secrets that Posada Carriles knows will come to light sooner or later 5/11/2007 Granma: "In
fact, Judge Cardone, in her May 8 ruling, said that "the realm of this case is
not, as some have suggested, terrorism. It is immigration fraud. Terrorism, and
the determination of whether or not to classify an individual as a terrorist,
lies within the sound discretion of the executive branch," adding that she was
not disposed to provide a solution for what she called a "hot potato" for the
U.S. government."
Cuba
anger at US exile decision 5/10/2007 BBC: "Posada Carriles is free and
without legal charges against him, it is of the entire responsibility of the
White House," Dagoberto Rodriguez Barrera of the Cuban Interests Section in
Washington said in a statement. He said that the White House had done everything
it could to protect "the Bin Laden of the hemisphere" from revealing US
government links with terror activities."
Fighting Terror Selectively: Washington and Posada 5/10/2007 Global
Research: "There had been intense pressure to try Posada for his terrorist
crimes, as required by Security Council resolution 1373 and three international
treaties. Resolution 1373, passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks,
mandates that all countries deny safe haven to those who commit terrorist acts,
and ensure that they are brought to justice. These provisions of resolution 1373
are mandatory, as they were adopted under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. The
treaties require the United States to extradite Posada to Venezuela for trial or
try him in U.S. courts for offenses committed abroad. The Department of Justice
elected instead to charge him with perjury for lying about how he entered the
United States in 2005. But the government could not take the risk that Posada
might sing like a canary. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone
dismissed all charges against Posada. In her ruling, Cardone wrote that "the
Government engaged in fraud, deceit, and trickery" by using a "routine"
immigration interview to investigate possible criminal charges against Posada.
But questions about Posada's prior criminal conduct were relevant to the moral
character determination at the immigration interview. Posada is not a "routine"
guy and his lawyer was present throughout the interview to protect him against
self-incrimination. Cardone found the government's tactics "grossly shocking and
so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice." She then
disingenuously claimed, "This Court's concern is not politics; it is the
preservation of justice." It is shocking and outrageous that Luis Posada
Carriles, whose crimes rival those of al Qaeda, is now walking free in Miami .
And Cardone's decision is deeply political. Rep. William Delahunt has called for
a congressional hearing to examine the U.S. government's role in promoting
impunity in the Posada case. Delahunt sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales requesting an explanation as to why the Justice Department did not
invoke the USA Patriot Act to declare Posada a terrorist and detain him,
stating, "The release of Mr. Posada puts into question our commitment to fight
terrorism.""
U.S. charges against anti-Castro exile dismissed 5/9/2007 Reuters: "Cardone
dismissed the immigration charges on grounds that the U.S. government case was
based on statements it got from Posada Carriles, 79, under false pretenses. He
thought he was in an immigration interview that was actually a criminal
interrogation, his lawyers said, and the judge agreed. "The government's tactics
in this case are so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the
universal sense of justice," Cardone wrote."
Diaz Balarts & Ros-Lehtinen condemn FBI for seeking evidence in Posada case 5/9/2007 Havana
Journal: "South Florida’s three Cuban-American members of Congress condemned the
Justice Department Thursday for sending Miami FBI agents to Cuba to collect
evidence against Luis Posada Carriles in a hotel bombing that killed an Italian
in Havana a decade ago. ‘By asking a state sponsor of terrorism for `evidence’
regarding terrorism, the Bush administration Justice Department demonstrates a
shockingly profound ignorance of the nature of terrorism, of its origins and its
state sponsors,’’ U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and brothers Lincoln and Mario
D?az-Balart said in a statement."
Bush Sat on
Evidence of Cuban Terror 5/7/2007 Consortium News: "Earlier this year, as
accused right-wing terrorist Luis Posada Carilles successfully sought to be
freed on bond, the Bush administration possessed secret evidence implicating the
79-year-old Cuban exile in terrorist bombings in Havana a decade ago."
US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties 5/6/2007 Global
Research: "With his trial on immigration charges set for May 11, the US
government has filed a motion in federal court seeking to bar the international
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles from testifying on his role as an agent of the
Central Intelligence Agency."
FBI,
Cuba cooperating on Posada 5/4/2007 Miami Herald: "Three federal law
enforcement officers familiar with the case described the trip as ''pretty
amazing'' and ''unheard of'' because Cuba had for years blocked FBI access to
witnesses, crime scenes, forensic evidence and more information in the bombing.
The Miami Herald agreed not to name the officers because of the ongoing grand
jury investigation. The sources said the trip was very productive because agents
were able to interview witnesses, review Cuba's forensic evidence -- including
bombing materials -- and visit crime scenes, though they declined to say exactly
what information was gathered."
Luis Posada Carriles has boasted of bombing Havana hotels, yet American justice
lets him go free - A Terrorist Walks 4/23/2007 Venezuela Analysis
Militant's release angers Cuba 4/19/2007 AP: [note the use of 'Militant' to
characterize Posada, one of the foremost narcoterrorists in history.]
Cuban militant posts bond, remains in jail 4/19/2007 AP: "Anti-Castro Cuban
militant Luis Posada Carriles remained in jail early today and his chances of
being released from federal custody were uncertain. Posada was set to be freed
Wednesday after his attorneys posted $250,000 bond, but he still faced the
prospect of being held by immigration authorities."
Judge rejects government bid to delay bond order for Posada 4/11/2007 AP: "Posada
will be under house arrest in Miami and will have to wear a monitoring bracelet,
Hernandez said. Posada will likely be released Thursday, but could be out as
soon as Wednesday afternoon."
Cuban
exiles differ on Posada 4/8/2007 Sun Sentinel
Judge Sets Trial for Castro Foe With U.S. Ties 2/16/2007 NYT: "The judge,
Kathleen Cardone of Federal District Court here, set May 11 for jury selection
in the case against Luis Posada Carriles, who is also wanted in Venezuela on
charges that he planned a deadly jet bombing."
Officials: Bomb Found on Witness' Truck 1/17/2007 AP: "The pickup truck on
which a pipe bomb was found and later detonated by authorities over the weekend
belonged to a key witness in the federal case against jailed Cuban militant Luis
Posada Carriles, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The FBI had publicly
identified the owner of the truck only as a witness in a federal criminal case.
But two federal law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
because the case is under investigation, said Wednesday the witness was Gilberto
Abascal, whose testimony is key to the U.S. case charging Posada with lying
during immigration naturalization proceedings… The pipe bomb was found Sunday
after Abascal apparently noticed the device and drove his truck to Hialeah
police headquarters. The bomb was detonated by the Miami-Dade bomb squad, with
the investigation led by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force."
Posada: A Double Standard in the War on Terror 10/6/2006 Harper's: "On
October 6, 1976 seventy-three people were killed when terrorists blew up Cubana
Flight 455, which was on its way from Barbados to Cuba. Thirty years later, on
September 11, 2006, Luis Posada Carriles, one of the men who allegedly carried
out the attack, was sitting in a Texas prison when a federal judge in El Paso,
Texas, ordered him released from detention. If a U.S. district court upholds the
ruling, Posada could be on the street within a few weeks."
Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 30 Years Later 10/5/2006 National Security
Archives: New Documents on Luis Posada Posted as Texas Court Weighs Release from
Custody - Colgate Toothpaste Disguised Plastic Explosives in 1976 Terrorist
Attack - Confessions, Kissinger Reports, and Overview of Posada Career Posted
Bacardi: from C-4 to flamethrowers 9/28/2006 Granma: "IT is pretty ironic
that the Bacardi company, which for 50 years has financed the Cuban-American
National Foundation (CANF) and the C-4 of Posada Carriles, would be victims of a
consumer demand, victims of a bottle of the controversial rum converted into a
flamethrower. Three women in South Florida suffered burns in 2002, when a client
of the adult Secrets club converted a bottle of Bacardi into a flamethrower
during a drinks promotion. Drunk, the client set fire to a menu in order to
light the rum that he was drinking in a cup. The flames spread to a bottle of
75.5-proof Bacardi rum, which then exploded."
CANF responsible for attack on Por Esto 9/4/2006 Granma: "This Sunday,
Mario Menéndez, proprietor of the opposition daily Por Esto, charged the
Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) of Miami and Mexican state officials
with responsibility for the grenade attacks on the newspaper offices in the last
few days. Por Esto exposed Luis Posada Carriles’ transit via Mexican waters and
territory, as well as the person and drug smuggling operations in which the CANF
is involved. In an editorial titled “Two grenades that say a lot,” Menéndez
noted that the brother of the governor of the state of Yucatan and a commander
of the national police special forces were involved in planning the attacks, PL
reports."''
Santrina owner arrested 7/17/2006 Granma: "The 43-year-old man, son of
notorious terrorist Ernestino Abreu, and an accomplice of Posada since his days
in Panama, appears in the official register as president of the Caribbean Marine
Ecological Protection Foundation (FPEMC), the phony owner of the Santrina
shrimper in which Posada made his clandestine crossing."
Bush's
Hypocrisy: Cuban Terrorists 4/26/2006 Consortium News: "This double
standard was underscored again in early April when a Spanish-language Miami
television station interviewed notorious Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch, who
offered a detailed justification for the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cubana
Airlines flight that killed 73 people, including the young members of the Cuban
national fencing team. As usual, Bosch refused to admit guilt, but his chilling
defense of the bombing – and the strong evidence that has swirled around his
role – leave little doubt of his complicity, even as he lives in Miami as a free
man. Another Cuban exile, Luis Posada Carriles, also has been tied to the
bombing, but the Bush administration has so far rebuffed Venezuela’s extradition
request for him, since he sneaked into the United States in 2005. But there’s
really nothing new about these two terrorists – and other violent right-wing
extremists – getting protection from the Bush family. For three decades, both
Bosch and Posada have been under the Bush family’s wing, starting with former
President George H.W. Bush (who was CIA director when the airline bombing
occurred in 1976) and including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and President George W.
Bush. The evidence points to one conclusion: the Bushes regard terrorism –
defined as killing civilians for a political reason – as justified in cases when
their interests match those of the terrorists. Moral clarity against terrorism
only applies when the Bush side disagrees with the terrorists."
Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455 A Glimpse
into the Mind of a Terrorist 4/11/2006 CounterPunch: "Orlando Bosch: If I
tell you that I was involved, I will be inculpating myself . . . . and if I tell
you that did not participate in that action, you would say that I am lying. I am
therefore not going to answer one thing or the other."
Venezuela Refuses to Extradite Man Wanted in the US for Drug Trafficking 3/29/2006 Venezuela
Analysis: "In a move likely further increase friction in the already tense
relations between Venezuela and the US, Venezuela released Mateo Holguin Ovalle,
a Dominican wanted by the US for drug trafficking. The decision was based on a
Venezuelan law which requires extradition for those wanted for organized crime,
except in cases where the receiving country does not guarantee not to apply the
death penalty, life imprisonment, or a sentence that exceeds 30 years, according
to a release by Supreme Court Judge Héctor Coronado Flores. The move comes
exactly a week after Venezuela’s embassy in the US put out a strongly worded
statement asking the US to either extradite or prosecute Posada Carriles, an
anti-Castro terrorism suspect. Previously, a US judge had ruled that Carriles
could not be extradited to Venezuela, on the grounds that he may be tortured
here."
Venezuela demands US hand over Cuban "terrorist" 3/23/2006 Reuters: "The
U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency ruled on Wednesday that Luis
Posada Carriles, who was detained by U.S. authorities last May after illegally
slipping into the country from Mexico, would stay in custody. Caracas, which has
strained relations with Washington under leftist President Hugo Chavez, rejected
this an attempt by the United States to avoid its request for extradition of
Posada, a naturalized Venezuelan and former CIA operative."
Cuba raises protest flags outside U.S. mission - Banners obscure view of sign
with news, human rights messages 2/7/2006 CNN: "A large group of young
people in the crowd carried huge signs made from the black and white photographs
of some of the 3,000 Cubans the communist government says have been killed in
acts of sabotage since shortly after the revolution that propelled Castro to
power 47 years ago. Those carrying the signs were to hold a 24-hour vigil
outside the mission in honor of "our beloved dead," said Carlos Cremata, whose
father was among 73 people killed in a 1976 explosion of a Cuban jetliner blamed
on terrorism by the island's enemies." [Actually CIA has confirmed that jetliner
was bombed by Posada Carrilles, who may shortly be freed from a US jail where he
is held on inconsequential charges]
Posada Carriles May Soon Hit the Streets 1/6/2006 NarcoNews: "It’s now
clear why the United States refused to charge Posada Carriles with terrorism.
Not until now do we see exactly why the government charged him only with the
single and timid charge of entering the country without proper papers. Instead
of pursuing justice, the United States government simply scolded the terrorist.
According to an article published this Wednesday in the Miami Herald’s Spanish
language newspaper, the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently
informed Posada’s lawyers that his “status as a detainee would be reviewed on
the 24th of January.” This means that within a few weeks Posada Carriles, the
man responsible for the blowing up of a passenger plane with 73 people on board
in 1976, could soon be freed by the U.S. government under regulations that
prohibit the indefinite detention of undocumented aliens whose deportation from
the country cannot be carried out within a ninety-day period."
Indictment ties Posada ally to Broward arms stash 12/3/2005 Miami
Herald: "A task force of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Alcohol, Tobacco &
Firearms and FBI agents recovered nine firearms from the cooler transported from
Alvarez's 280-unit Lauderhill apartment complex and from a gun safe in the
storage facility. Among the seized firepower: one Maddi Company AK-47 machine
gun; one M-14 machine gun; one RPB Industries M-11A-1 machine gun; two Colt
AR-15 semiautomatic rifles; two Essential Arms Co. J-15 machines guns; one
Heckler and Koch grenade launcher; and one silencer. ''In an attempt to evade
detection by law enforcement, [Alvarez] would remove machine guns with
obliterated serial numbers, a silencer without a serial number, and a [grenade
launcher] from the storage facility . . . in order to transfer [the] items to
Osvaldo Mitat,'' according to the indictment. During last month's bond hearing,
Kainen told the federal magistrate: ``I would suggest, your honor, there is no
evidence that these [weapons] were going to be used in the United States."
Miamigate? 12/1/2005 Progresso Weekly: "If you pull Álvarez's string, you
can follow it all the way to the White House. We might then assume that this is
not a "strategy" of the government but of its opponents, as happened in the
other "gates." Evidently, the Bush administration is facing an opposition that's
sitting on the heart of the system, and the reason for this is the failure of
the war in Iraq. ...There is nothing more compromising for the credibility of
the "war on terrorism" than the connection between the administration and the
Miami terrorists, and that's something the administration's foes know well.
Until recently, the government had managed to sweep the Posada affair under a
rug, but its inefficiency and disrespect for public opinion have been so blatant
that it seems the federal prosecutors were left to their own devices, to sink or
swim. Only that can explain the lack of criticism that met Posada's illegal
entry to the United States, his "clandestine" presence in Miami, the
manipulation of a hearing where the prosecutor accepted the defense's arguments
without a peep, and where the judge was a government employee. These things can
happen with a strong government that enjoys the complicity of powerful groups
but not with a lame-duck president like George W. Bush, so I smell a trap in the
impunity. I have no idea who ordered the detention of Santiago Álvarez, but I
tend to think it was not the government. Maybe they found out too late, or
couldn't prevent the arrest without digging themselves into a deeper hole. They
might even be able to control the damage. But if they cannot, Bush's "gate" will
be memorable. Cuban Americans in Miami are his best stronghold; the day he does
not rule them in Miami is the day he does not rule anywhere else."
LUIS POSADA CARRILES CASE - Backer's arrest clouds case 11/29/2005 Miami
Herald: "With his biggest benefactor, Santiago Alvarez, behind bars, Cuban exile
militant Luis Posada Carriles' chances of walking out of federal custody before
year's end have sustained a serious blow."
Operation 40 11/26/2005 Spartacus: "Over the next few years Operation 40
worked closely with several anti-Castro Cuban organizations including Alpha 66.
CIA officials and freelance agents such as William Harvey, Porter Goss, Gerry
Hemming, E. Howard Hunt and David Morales, Bernard L. Barker, Frank Sturgis,
Tosh Plumlee, and William C. Bishop also joined the project. Cuban figures used
by the Operation 40 included Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Roland
Masferrer, Eladio del Valle, Guillermo Novo, Carlos Bringuier, Eugenio Martinez,
Antonio Cuesta, Hermino Diaz Garcia, Barry Seal, Felix Ismael Rodriguez, Juan
Manuel Salvat, Ricardo Morales Navarrete, Isidro Borjas, Virgilio Paz, Jose
Dionisio Suarez, Felipe Rivero, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Nazario Sargent, Pedro
Luis Diaz Lanz, Rafael Quintero, Jose Basulto, and Paulino Sierra."
Detienen
a Santiago Alvarez en Estados Unidos cómplice del terrorista Posada Carriles 11/23/2005 Red
Voltaire
Agents target Posada ally 11/19/2005 Miami Herald: "Federal authorities
searched the Hialeah office of Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles'
biggest benefactor Friday, the same day that a Cuban group ran a full-page
advertisement in The New York Times denouncing Posada."
Celerino Castillo on Luis Posada Carriles 11/11/2005 From the
Wilderness: published 5/17/05, by Celerino "Cele" Castillo, 3rd, the ex-DEA
Agent who exposed Felix Rodriguez, the man who killed Che, as a major
narcoterrorist.
Venezuelans tortured by Posada Carriles present their cases 10/3/2005 Granma: "Venezuelans
tortured by terrorist of Cuban origin are today preparing the files of their
cases and those of disappeared comrades in order to support the demand for the
criminal’s extradition. Jesús Marrero, coordinator of the group of victims
affected by Posada during the years in which he had a high position in the
Venezuelan political police (DISIP), explained to Prensa Latina that the
initiative is an attempt to bring about justice. Marrero, who was tortured at
the orders of Posada, considers the decision of the U.S. judge not to hand the
criminal over to Venezuelan authorities under the pretext that he may be
tortured, an insult to Posada’s victims."
Venezuela Denounces Bush Family Ties with Terrorists 10/1/2005 Prensa
Latina: " Vice President of Venezuela José Vicente Rangel has accused the Bush
family of ties with terrorists, especially criminal Luis Posada Carriles."
Venezuela’s Ambassador: “Posada Carriles is the Osama Bin Laden of Latin
America” 9/30/2005 Venezuela Analysis: “The United States presents itself
as a leader against terrorism, invades countries, restricts the civil rights of
Americans in order to fight terrorism, but when it is about its own terrorists,
it denies that they be tried,” said Alvarez.
El Salvador Arrests Criminal with Ties to Posada Carriles 9/30/2005 Prensa
Latina
Judge prevents deportation of Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles 9/28/2005 Sun
Sentinel
U.S. Government Charade Will Result in Denial of Posada Extradition 9/26/2005 NarcoNews: "The
real struggle in the case seems to be over Posada’s potential release from
prison. Garrett-Jackson wanted as much evidence as possible of Posada’s past
deeds in the record in order to apparently establish him as a threat to the
national security of the United States and as a terrorist. But since
Archambeault waived the issue with respect to withholding, the judge may require
that the U.S. Government’s evidence be ignored. In that case, the way may be
clear for Posada’s release. Without a finding that Posada is a terrorist or a
threat to national security, it will make it much easier for him to win his
freedom."
US Lawyer Accused Luis Posada Carriles at Miami Rally 9/21/2005 AIN: "The
lawyer said that most of the so-called Miami exiles prefer to protect Posada
instead of condemn him for his actions."
Lawyer: Posada faces torture in Venezuela 8/31/2005 UPI: extraordinary
rendition!
Jim DeFede: A victim of the Miami mafia? 8/5/2005 Granma: "In his article
titled “Terror is terror, whether it’s in London or Cuba,” DeFede criticized
comments by Cuban-born Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, about what she called
the “barbaric” terrorist attack in London. DeFede wrote: “Strong words. What But
where was the congresswoman's outrage when she came to the defense of Luis
Posada Carriles, a man who bragged about masterminding a series of hotel
bombings in Havana that killed an Italian tourist? A man suspected of blowing up
a Cuban airliner?"
Judge denies bond for Cuban, seeks Bay of Pigs info 7/26/2005 Reuters: "A
U.S. immigration judge denied bail on Monday for an asylum-seeking former CIA
operative from Cuba and asked for legal briefs on whether his role in the 1961
Bay of Pigs invasion was a terrorist act. Lawyers for Luis Posada Carriles
called the request "surprising" because they said if Posada is found to have
engaged in terrorism, it would imply the CIA did also."
Luis Posada Carriles Denied Bond 7/26/2005 NarcoNews: "But as the hearing
wound down, the judge dropped a bombshell in the courtroom. He informed both the
attorneys for Posada and for the U.S. Government that he would issue a pretrial
order in late July or early August requiring counsel to brief the court as to
whether or not Posada’s actions in support of the Bay of Pigs invasion could be
construed as terrorist actions under U.S. statutes governing detention and
deportability of aliens. Abbot then pointedly noted that he looked especially
forward to the government’s brief on that matter. The court was silent. An
immigration judge had just ordered a brief as to whether or not an action 43
years ago supported and funded by the U.S. government in accordance with policy
taken at the highest levels, including presidential decisions, could be
construed as a terrorist act under current U.S. law. As Javier Montaño, Posada’s
second-chair counsel, translated the judge’s statement to Posada, a hint of a
smile came over the old man’s face."
Posada Carriles deportation case turns into Bay of Pigs sparnfarkel 7/25/2005 NarcoNews: "Of
even greater interest, however, is the fact that the Associated Press reports
that the federal immigration judge hearing Posada’s case “asked lawyers involved
in the deportation case … to provide briefs on whether the Bay of Pigs invasion
could be considered an act of terrorism.” That’s right, U.S. prosecutors and
Posada’s attorneys will now have to duke it out over whether the U.S. government
engaged in an act of terrorism against the Cuban government in the early 1960s.
And the irony is that it will be to the benefit of U.S. prosecutors to argue
that it was terrorism, since it would seem to bolster the government’s case
against granting Posada asylum."
The Posada case is the strongest evidence of the five Cubans’ innocence 7/21/2005 Granma
Where is Luis Posada? 7/19/2005 NarcoNews: "Bush senior was also Vice
President of the United States when Posada “escaped” from a Venezuelan prison
while being tried for the Cubana bombing. Posada resurfaced soon after his 1985
escape from Venezuela, as Ramon Medina, a chief player in the Iran-Contra
affair,a grotesquerie hatched by the CIA and the Reagan-Bush Administration that
helped fund itself by facilitating drug sales in the United States. In 1986,
Bush family friend and lapdog, Elliot Abrams, lied stone-faced to the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about U.S. involvement in the
"contra" affair, making sure to protect Bush senior: "Mr. Stokes asked whether
denial of U.S. involvement included the Vice President. Mr. Abram’s said Mr.
Gregg of the Vice President’s staff had introduced Mr. [Felix] Rodriguez to
Salvadoran Air Force officials in 1984 to serve as an adviser on air/ground
operations. Mr. Rodriguez’ actions since that time were on his own." Abrams has
resurfaced as a chief adviser in the Bush junior administration. And Bush
senior, as President, released Posada’s comrade-in-arms, Orlando Bosch, from
federal detention in 1990. Now with the weight of all this history on him, and
no doubt tremendous familial pressure, Bush junior must decide what to do with a
77-year-old terrorist who is really the living embodiment of a failed United
States policy of decades past. The federal government transported Posada to El
Paso, Texas, where he is to have a bond hearing on July 25. We are unable to go
into any further detail, but credible information has it that Posada is no
longer in El Paso. Additionally, two separate calls to the detention facility
supposedly holding Posada yielded differing information concerning his upcoming
bond hearing. During a call this morning, employees said that the bond hearing
set for the 25th will be accomplished electronically, with neither Posada nor
his attorney to be present. Later in the day, however, a second call to the
detention center yielded the information that Posada was “most definitely” at
that facility and that he would be present for the bond hearing next Monday.
Bill Conroy, well known to regular readers of Narco News and the Narcosphere,
said that he checked with sources on the inside and could not confirm that
Posada had been moved. But one of his sources said that “it would not be a big
surprise if Posada were moved. They could move him on a whim, claiming he was
under threat or for some national security pretense. [The government] want[s] to
control [Posada] as much as [it] can without killing him.” "
Diaz Balart and Ros-Lehtinen sought freedom for terrorist Luis Posada Carriles 7/3/2005 Havana
Journal: "Two years ago, when anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles was
imprisoned here for his role in an alleged plot to assassinate Cuban President
Fidel Castro, South Florida’s three Cuban-American members of Congress lobbied
the Panamanian government to pardon him. But today, with Posada in the United
States seeking political asylum after sneaking into the country illegally, the
same lawmakers—Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen—have remained quietly on the sidelines."
Hypocrisy Rules in Posada Case 6/25/2005 NarcoNews
Posada Carriles may well choke on Bush's pickle 6/24/2005 NarcoNews: "Source
1: A former high-ranking DEA official “If he was a CIA operative, and he was, I
don’t think the CIA wanted him in custody,” the source says. “But he had the
audacity to grant an interview with the Miami Herald, and he was arrested the
day after that interview. … He did a stupid thing and rubbed it in the
government’s face by coming into the U.S. illegally and then having the balls to
grant an interview to the press in the middle of Miami.” The source adds that if
the immigration judge in El Paso was really under political pressure to grant
Posada Carriles asylum, then he would have granted his motion to have the case
moved to Miami, “but he didn’t.” “They’re going to keep him in custody where the
government can keep an eye on him,” the former DEA official says. “How many
Cubans are incarcerated already (in the United States)? They can hold him
indefinitely, until he dies, maybe due to bad prison food.” "
How
Authentic Journalists Caught an International Terrorist in Mexicon - The Daily
Por Esto! Found Posada Carriles on Isla Mujeres but George W. Bush Is Trying to
Set Him Free in Miami 6/21/2005 NarcoNews
Luis
Posada Carriles 6/20/2005 Latin American Studies: clearing house on this
topic
Cuban militant's case will remain in El Paso 6/20/2005 Houston
Chronicle: "Posada's attorney wanted the trial moved because he said holding it
in El Paso would cause hardships for Posada and that his client wants to be
closer to his family in Miami. Prosecutors said holding Posada in South Florida
would present security risks."
US Congress members support Posada Carriles’ extradition 6/17/2005 Granma
Posada Carriles: The double acquittal myth 6/16/2005 Progreso Weekly: "On
the eve of the pronouncement of his sentence on August 8, 1985, he fled from the
San Juan de los Morros penitentiary, located in the State of Guárico, where he
had been confined after two previous failed escape attempts. No verdict was
entered against Posada Carriles because according to the Venezuelan Penal Code
judicial proceedings cannot continue without the presence of the accused. The
court issued an arrest warrant against him."
Posada sought to stand trial 6/16/2005 Miami Herald: "Venezuela presented a
new challenge to the Bush administration on the Posada Carriles case by formally
submitting an extradition request."
The CIA and the Bombing of Cubana Flight 455 - Why Bush Wants to Harbor Posada
Carriles 6/16/2005 CounterPunch
Posada renews asylum bid at a hearing held in Texas 6/14/2005 Miami
Herald: "Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles refiled a formal request for
political asylum, and a judge said he is considering moving him to a facility
closer to Miami." [Judging by previous proceedings against anti-Castro
paramilitaries, this is a sure sign in Posada's favor.]
The
New CIA Revelations About Posada Extradition US-Style By RICARDO ALARCÓN 6/14/2005 CounterPunch
The
Asshole in El Paso - Posada Carriles: Why He Matters 6/9/2005 CounterPunch
The
Charmed Life of a Mass Murderer - Posada Carriles and Bush's Anti-Terror Hoax 6/9/2005 CounterPunch
The Posada File: Part II 6/9/2005 National Security Archives: Posada
Boasted of Plans to "Hit" Cuban Plane, CIA Document States - Served as
Instructor, Informant for Agency for more than a Decade - Other Documents
Highlight Creation of Exile Terrorist Umbrella Group; Subsequent Acts of
Terrorism and Violence attributed to Orlando Bosch
Posada Carriles nunca fue absuelto en Venezuela 6/6/2005 La Jornada,
Mexico: exposes US government lies about Posada's legal history in Venezuela,
where he was actually never found innocent of the airplane bombing.
Cuban
militant worked for US in Contra supply network 5/30/2005 Tallahassee
Democrat: "Using the "Ramon Medina" alias, Posada worked closely with another
militant Cuban exile known as "Max Gomez" at the major Contra staging area at
Ilopango Air Base in El Salvador. "Max Gomez" was actually Felix Rodriguez, a
longtime CIA operative who took part in a 1967 operation in Bolivia that led to
the capture and execution of Castro's revolutionary ally Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Posada needed a job, and Rodriguez had a destination," said Thomas Blanton,
director of the National Security Archive, a nonprofit organization at George
Washington University that collects and publicizes government documents. "If
Rodriguez is the CEO of the operation, Posada is the chief operating officer."
[Predictably, this US paper neglects to mention the large scale narcotics
trafficking Posada and Rodriguez organized out of Ilopango.]
Chavez slams 'negative' U.S. move over Cuban exile 5/30/2005 Reuters: "Left-winger
Chavez, a fierce critic of President Bush, expressed disappointment at the U.S.
decision on Friday to reject Venezuela's request that Posada be arrested for
extradition. "They've given a sign, a negative one," Chavez said. "It's a
worrying sign," he said during a cabinet meeting broadcast live on state
television. Venezuela plans to deliver a formal extradition request for Posada
to U.S. authorities on Tuesday. Chavez accused Bush, whom he mockingly referred
to as "Mr Danger," of "sheltering a terrorist." The U.S. government told
Venezuela on Friday its request that Posada be arrested for extradition was
"clearly inadequate," because it lacked supporting evidence. Chavez scoffed at
this. "And what about those CIA and FBI documents that you have over there, Mr
Danger? ... You know the truth much more than we do," he said. He was referring
to declassified U.S. intelligence documents which cite informants as saying that
Posada, who once worked with Venezuela's security services, had plotted to bomb
a Cuban airliner with other Cuban exiles."
Mexico Supports Venezuelan Extradition Request 5/29/2005 Venezuela
Analysis: "Despite the fact that Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles illegally
entered the US via the Mexican border in March, Mexico is not interested in
prosecuting him for what Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez referred
to as a relatively minor offense in a statement last week. In the event that the
US would deport Posada to Mexico, Mexico would turn the former CIA agent over to
the Venezuelan authorities. "We would be practically obliged to do this," stated
Derbez, explaining that, "[w]e have an extradition treaty with Venezuela."
Derbez went on to clarify that "[P]osada would have to go to Venezuela because
the Venezuelan case is very clear, there is a crime, which is compounded by his
escape from prison.""
US denies Venezuela extradition of anti-Castro militant 5/27/2005 AFP: "Venezuela,
meanwhile, said Friday that US officials had rejected only its request to arrest
Posada Carriles, but not the request to extradite. The embassy in Washington
released a statement saying it would "submit any documentation necessary to seek
the extradition.""
Cuba says US must try exile if he's not extradited 5/25/2005 Reuters: "The
United States would be obliged under international law to try Cuban exile Luis
Posada Carriles on terrorism charges if it fails to extradite him to Venezuela
to face trial for a bomb attack 30 years ago, a senior Cuban official said on
Wednesday."
Venezuelans demand US turn over Cuban for bombing trial 5/24/2005 AP: "Venezuelan
troops stood guard outside the embassy, while some protesters held a towel
printed with the American flag upside down, then let it fall to the ground,
trampling on it. "Cuba yes, yankees no!" the crowd chanted. One woman shouted,
"Yankees, go home!" Protester Noel Marquez had strong words for McFarland,
telling him, "You should apologise to the Venezuelan people for having a
terrorist like the criminal Posada Carriles on US soil.""
Chávez threatens ties with U.S. over Posada 5/23/2005 Miami
Herald: "Venezuela's president said he'll reconsider diplomatic ties with the
United States if Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles is not extradited."
Send Posada Carriles to Venezuela - Beating Around the Bush 5/22/2005 CounterPunch: "There's
no valid reason why Posada should not be extradited to Venezuela now. There's no
necessity to wait while lawyers mess around with Homeland's insignificant
illegal entry claim or any asylum claim. The case should be promptly submitted
to the extradition judge. It seems like the Administration is using these
immigration cases, with Posada's cooperation, to try to delay decision on the
extradition request in hope of avoiding evidence of CIA's involvement in the
bombing from becoming public in a Venezuelan proceeding. Part of its plan seems
to be to make reporters and the public think the US can't extradite until the
immigration proceedings are ended and they have some policy preventing
extradition. Neither of which is so."
The crimes of Bosch and Posada - Washington knew beforehand of the plot to
sabotage the Cubana airliner 5/20/2005 Granma
Former rebel: Posada ordered torture 5/20/2005 Miami Herald: "A former
Venezuelan leftist guerrilla fighter has accused Cuban exile militant Luis
Posada Carriles of ordering his torture."
Posada charged with illegal entry 5/20/2005 Miami Herald: "Immigration
authorities have charged Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles with entering
the United States illegally and have ordered that he be held without bond."
Cuba
slams US extradition 'farce' 5/19/2005 BBC: "Cuban President Fidel Castro
has condemned the US handling of an old foe, bombing suspect Luis Posada
Carriles, as "a big farce, a big lie". "
Exiles reluctant to publicly back militant Posada 5/19/2005 Miami
Herald: "Eager to avoid the blistering that Miami's Cuban community took in 2000
as a result of the Elián case, exile leaders are preaching restraint when it
comes to Posada, 77, a militant accused in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner
and other acts of terrorism. A group that had sponsored street demonstrations in
2000 was asked to back off, for example, and Spanish-language radio stations on
Wednesday appeared intent on building interest in Friday's scheduled assembly of
civil societies in Cuba -- rather than fueling outrage over Posada's fate."
Venezuela Wants Cuban Exile Extradited 5/18/2005 AP: "But Castro has
repeatedly ruled out trying to extradite Posada, saying he should be tried in
Venezuela or by an international court. Rangel called the idea that Posada could
be sent to Cuba "an excuse, a subterfuge, that they are using precisely in order
to not approve the extradition." "
Assata and Posada: Two different colors, two different stories 5/18/2005 SF
Bay View: "The generally unacknowledged factor of Posada and Bosch’s blowing up
of the Cubana airliner, however, is this. If tourists to Cuba take the time to
visit Havana’s Sport’s Palace, guides will inevitably take them to the memorial
wall. From there, visitors will be greeted by row after row of young, mostly
Black faces staring back at them – photographs of Cuba’s Olympic athletes who
were returning from the Pan American Games in Venezuela and were on board the
airliner Posada and Bosch likely bombed. Therefore, by putting a $1 million
bounty on Sister Shakur, who, they say, is linked to the killing of one white
person, while allowing Posada and Bosch remain free in the U.S. after killing at
least 73 mostly Black people, the U.S. has once again exposed itself as a
government that continues to capitulate to and accommodate itself to racism."
Cuban exile whisked away after his arrest 5/18/2005 Miami Herald: "Cuban
exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, accused of terrorism, briefly came out of
hiding Tuesday before he was arrested by federal immigration authorities and
whisked away in a Homeland Security helicopter. Posada, who has been linked to
the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner and to a 1997 series of bombings at tourist
hotels in Havana, was arrested in Miami-Dade on the same day Cuban President
Fidel Castro mounted a massive march in Havana to accuse U.S. leaders of
hypocrisy for sheltering the accused bomber. And his arrest came just hours
after Posada, who has been hiding in the Miami area since he entered the United
States illegally in late March, held an invitation-only news conference under
tight security at a warehouse near Hialeah."
What the CIA Could Learn from Venezuela: The Luis Posada Carriles Case 5/13/2005 Venezuela
Analysis: "Luis Posada Carriles is a fugitive from justice in Venezuela and an
international terrorist, so defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI), and therefore cannot be granted political asylum under U.S. law."
Time for U.S. to live up to its anti-terror rhetoric 5/12/2005 News Press,
FL: "President Bush has said that any government that harbors terrorists is
complicit in murder and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. Yet thousands of
Cuban people have died by violent attacks perpetrated on the island by
anti-Cuban paramilitary groups that operate freely in Miami. Following Bush's
reasoning, allowing Posada into the United States and entertaining an asylum
request from a confessed terrorist is an open acknowledgement of complicity in
terrorist acts. (And Cuban exiles would do well not to start calling Posada
Carriles a "freedom fighter.") The United States must deny Posada's political
asylum request, and should arrest and deport him to Venezuela, honoring that
country's extradition treaty with the United States. Or, as Cuba has suggested,
Posada should be tried by a competent international tribunal."
Cuba
'plane bomber' was CIA agent 5/11/2005 BBC: "The documents, released by
George Washington University's National Security Archive, show that Mr Posada,
now in his 70s, was on the CIA payroll from the 1960s until mid-1976. One FBI
report quoted a confidential source as saying that Mr Posada was one of several
people who met at least twice at a hotel in Caracas, allegedly to discuss
bombing a Cubana airlines plane."
LUIS POSADA CARRILES - THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD 5/10/2005 National Security
Archives: "The National Security Archive today posted additional documents that
show that the CIA had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on
plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner. The Archive
also posted another document that shows that the FBI's attache in Caracas had
multiple contacts with one of the Venezuelans who placed the bomb on the plane,
and provided him with a visa to the U.S. five days before the bombing, despite
suspicions that he was engaged in terrorist activities at the direction of Luis
Posada Carriles. Both documents were featured last night on ABC Nightline's
program on Luis Posada Carriles, who was detained in Miami yesterday by Homeland
Security. In addition, the Archive posted the first report to Secretary of State
Kissinger from the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research on the
bombing of Cubana flight 455. The report noted that a CIA source had overheard
Posada prior to the bombing in late September 1976 stating that, "We are going
to hit a Cuban airliner." "
Bush,
Posada & Terrorism Hypocrisy 5/10/2005 Consortium News: "The New York Times
has finally put the case of fugitive terrorist Luis Posada Carriles on Page One,
observing that the violent anti-Castro Cuban’s presence in Florida “could test”
George W. Bush’s universal condemnation of terrorism. But that principle already
appears to have been tested and failed. Without doubt, Posada – who reportedly
has been hiding in South Florida for six weeks – is getting the benefit of a
conscious U.S. policy of benign neglect, a Bush version of the “I know nothing”
approach made popular by Sgt. Schultz, the German prison guard in the TV comedy
“Hogan’s Heroes.” If Posada were a suspected Islamic terrorist – not a
CIA-trained right-wing Cuban exile – there’s no question that the Bush
administration would be showing zero tolerance for his presence inside the
United States. Certainly, the U.S. government wouldn’t be waiting around
patiently for the terrorist to check in with immigration authorities."
Cuban leader denounces
U.S. hunt for convicted cop killer 5/10/2005 Newsday: "Castro suggested
that the action was meant to divert attention from Cuba's demand that U.S.
officials arrest Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela on charges of
involvement in blowing up a civilian Cuban jetliner in 1976, killing 73 people."
U.S. promotes double
standard in how it deals with 'terrorist' cases 5/9/2005 USA Today: "What
bothers me is that while these men, whose suspected crimes fit the State
Department's definition of terrorism, haven't set off Justice Department alarm
bells, Shakur is being treated like a disciple of Osama bin Laden. If she killed
Foerster (her attorney argues the evidence suggests otherwise), Shakur should be
returned to New Jersey to spend her life in prison. By not proclaiming that it
will arrest Posada on sight and deport him, the Bush administration caters to
those in the Cuban exile community who view him as a freedom fighter — and
undermines its leadership of the fight against terrorism."
Terrorist Cuban Exile Luis Posada Carriles Seeking Political Asylum in U.S. 5/9/2005 Democracy
Now: "ANN LOUISE BARDACH: I think I saw the June 1976 document about him being
in Santa Domingo, from memory, back in 1998. Actually it ties -- the one I think
I recall that we got at The New York Times back then had to do with the Cubana
shoot-down, where there was that big meeting in Santa Domingo, the DR, and that
that was discussed. I'm not sure it’s a new document. I think it has been
declassified for some time. But yes, I am aware of what they're referring to. I
can only say that the information -- Posada denied blowing up the airliner, but
I have never found an intelligence official whether in the F.B.I., the C.I.A.,
certainly the Cuban intelligence, Venezuelan intelligence, who did not believe
that Posada and Bosch were involved. They're basically two guys who worked for
their detective agency after he sort of got in trouble with the Venezuelan
government, he started a private eye detective agency, and the two guys who
planted the bombs on the plane, who were Venezuelan, worked for Posada and
Bosch. And I have never – and I even did an interview, which is cited in my
book, with the former head of Latin American intelligence for us, and he just
said to me, he said, look, there were no other suspects. But Posada and his
lawyers will properly point out that eventually over time, over ten years, he
won an acquittal here, an acquittal there. Venezuelan justice is very peculiar.
Same thing with Orlando Bosch. I mean, there are people who will tell you that
you can get an acquittal in Caracas back then, you know, for around $45. I'm not
exactly sure, but Venezuelan justice is very peculiar, labyrinthan, and it was
very susceptible to what is called mordidas, and there was a tremendous crusade
in Miami to free these guys. But again, he and his lawyers say they did not do
it. I have never heard anyone else in the intelligence world who did not think,
au contraire, that he did do it. What is interesting in the memos I saw back in
1998 was, I remember one where he's informing and sending tips to the C.I.A.
throughout 1976, and I just remember one where he said that Orlando Bosch may be
involved in blowing up a civilian airliner, I think he identified the country,
leaving from Panama."
Cuban Exile Could Test U.S. Definition of Terrorist 5/9/2005 NYT: "On Sept.
21, 1976, in the heart of Washington, a car bomb killed a former foreign
minister of Chile, Orlando Letelier, and an American aide, Ronni Moffitt; at the
time, it was one of the worst acts of foreign terrorism on American soil.
Fifteen days later, a Cubana Airlines flight with 73 people on board was blown
out of the sky off the coast of Barbados in the worst terrorist attack in Cuban
history. Mr. Cornick, the F.B.I. counterterrorism specialist who worked on the
Letelier case, said in an interview that both bombings were planned at a June
1976 meeting in Santo Domingo attended by, among others, Mr. Posada. "The Cubana
bomb went off, the people were killed, and there were tracks leading right back
to Disip," said Mr. Cornick, who is now retired. "The information was so strong
that they locked up Posada as a preventative measure - to prevent him from
talking or being killed. They knew that he had been involved," said Mr. Cornick,
referring to the Venezuelan authorities. "There was no doubt in anyone's mind,
including mine, that he was up to his eyeballs" in the Cubana bombing. A
November 1976 F.B.I. report, based on the word of a trusted Cuban-American
informer, Ricardo Morales, places Mr. Posada at two meetings where the Cubana
bombing was plotted. It quotes the informer directly: "If Posada Carriles
talks," it says, "the Venezuelan government will 'go down the tube.' " The
document was obtained from government files by the National Security Archive, a
private research group in Washington."
Posada has something on Bush, says expert on Kennedy case 4/29/2005 Granma: "Dankbaar,
also a Dutch businessman, who has made a documentary on the assassination of
Kennedy titled Second Look, has shown how one of the three individuals arrested
by Dallas police shortly after the crime placed Luis Posada Carriles in Dealey
Square in that same city at the moment of the assassination."
Ex-Venezuelan Soldier Says CIA Tried to Bribe Guards for Cuban Terrorist's
Escape 4/27/2005 Venezuela Analysis: "According to retired Venezuelan
National Guard member Nelson Díaz, the CIA financed the escape of Cuban
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles from a Venezuelan penitentiary in 1985. During a
telephone interview yesterday with the daily morning program En Confianza, on
Venezuela’s state television channel, Nelson, who worked in the prison where
Posada was in prison for the bombing of a Cuban airliner, spoke of $20,000
dollar bribes that he and several of his co-workers were offered in 1983 to
facilitate Posada's escape."
Hijo de
cubano asesinado por Posada Carriles exige justicia 4/22/2005 Jiribilla
An
Exclusive CounterPunch Interview with Ricardo Alarcon About One of the World's
Most Wanted Terrorists - "Is Posada Still Working for the White House?" 4/19/2005 CounterPunch: "The
explosion took place probably more rapidly than they had expected because they
eared and saw the explosion when they were in the taxi going from the airport to
town. That perhaps has provoked their extremely instable attitude. They were
very, very nervous. That is what the driver reported. And at some moment they
asked the driver not to go to the hotel but to go to the American Embassy and,
at a particular moment, something struck the mind of the driver. He listened
when one of the individuals signalled a building, when approaching downtown
Bridgetown, and referred to the American Embassy. In Bridgetown, at this moment,
there were very few embassies. The US and very few countries had a
representation there. We didn't at the time. This was noted by the driver
because it is rather strange that somebody who is entering the country should
know this, unless he had been there before. Then they went to the Embassy,
according to this driver."
El Departamento de Estado instruyó a los medios de prensa para que difundieran
que la presencia de Posada Carriles en Estados Unidos era una operación de la
inteligencia cubana 4/15/2005 Tricontinental
Cuban Terror Suspect Sets Off Propaganda Battle 4/14/2005 Washington
Post: "Posada has been living in unspecified Central American countries since
2000, his lawyer told Prensa Grafica (Spanish) in El Salvador. He recently
entered the United States via Mexico, the lawyer said. In a three-hour
appearance on Cuban television on Monday, Castro charged that the Bush
administration knew Posada had entered the United States. "It is as if Bin Laden
were in the United States and the US president did not know," Castro said
according to the BBC. In Venezuela, the government of President Hugo Chavez says
it will formally demand that the U.S. extradite Posada, according to two leading
dailies, El Observador (Spanish) and El Nacional (Spanish). Venezuela is Cuba's
closest ally in the hemisphere. One target of Castro's rhetorical offensive is
Europe. Both Unavision (Spanish), the mainstream Mexican broadcast network, and
the leftist daily La Jornada (Spanish) noted that Castro is seeking European
help in getting Posada extradited."
Venezuela Issues Extradition Request for Terrorist in U.S. 4/13/2005 Venezuela
Analysis: "Venezuela formally asked U.S. authorities to extradite an escaped
prisoner who was responsible for the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, in
which 73 persons were killed. The former prisoner, Luis Posada Carriles, is a
Cuban exile who had escaped a Venezuelan prison in 1985. For a while he lived in
Panama, where he was also captured for planning an assassination of Cuba’s
President Fidel Castro in 2000. He was then pardoned in Panama, though, and
entered the U.S. about a month ago. Venezuela’s Vice-President, José Vicente
Rangel, said, “We going to step up our demands for extradition.” “I hope Mr.
Bush will take note of his own anti-terrorism policies and hand over Posada
Carriles,” added Rangel."
Cuba pide a EU entregar a Luis Posada Carriles 4/12/2005 La Jornada,
Mexico
Moscoso obtained $4 million for pardoning Posada and his accomplices 4/7/2005 Granma: "The
pardon of international terrorists Luis Posada Carriles, Pedro Crispín Remon
Hernández, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo and Guillermo Novo Sampol was negotiated in
Miami by Ruby Moscoso, sister of the then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso,
for the sum of $4 million, according to documents published on the internet."
Activist emerged from shadows 3/31/2005 Miami Herald: A half a dozen terror
bombings in Havana returned longtime anti-Castro activist Luís Posada Carriles
to the limelight in 1997.
Posada Carriles: a Hot Potato 3/31/2005 Radio Miami: "The news arrived to
the media just a few hours ago, but the rumor has been going around Miami for a
few days. Luis Posada Carriles, the most infamous terrorist of Cuban origin is
already in the U.S., and he is ready to request political asylum over there. He
had remained clandestinely in Central America, possibly Honduras and El
Salvador, after having been pardoned in Panama by the then Panamanian President
Mireya Moscoso, who released him from prison. He was serving a sentence for
terrorist acts in that country."
A
Cuban Perspective on Gary Webb - The Journalist Who Exposed the Crimes of Luis
Posada Carriles 1/5/2005 CounterPunch
When will the French press reveal the RSF leader’s friendships with terrorists? 9/24/2004 Granma: "In
Miami, Ménard got friendly with several of those who led the campaigns to
release Orlando Bosch and prevent Elián from returning to Cuba, and who
purchased a pardon for Luis Posada Carriles. Bosch and Posada have a
long-standing career of terrorism behind them going back some 45 years and that
includes the mid-flight explosion of a Cubana Aviation aircraft with 73
passengers on board."
Amid
Cheers, Terrorists Have Landed in the U.S. 9/12/2004 LA Times: "I think you
can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable
in parts of the world," Bush recently said in an interview. But the decision to
allow members of the Posada gang into this country, and the televised spectacle
of Miamians applauding their return, sends a different and dangerous message: In
a swing state, some terrorists are not only acceptable but welcome."
Posada Carriles said to be in Honduras 8/31/2004 Granma
Panama-Cuba 'pardon' row worsens 8/23/2004 BBC: "The Cuban government also
recently alleged the convicted men were planning to flee from their Panamanian
prison and said it would hold the Moscoso government responsible if this
happened. Earlier this year, it criticised as too lenient the four-to-eight year
sentences imposed on the men. Cuba had tried to extradite four of the Cuban
exiles, including the alleged ringleader, Luis Posada Carriles, who has been
wanted by Havana for many years. He is accused of a string of offences,
including an attack on a Cuban passenger plane which crashed off the coast of
Barbados in 1976."
ROBERT “CIA” MENARD: SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY - Reporters Sans Frontières along
with, the U.S. army, Bacardí and CANF 1/21/2004 Granma: "THE most dishonest
anti-Cuba publicity campaigns by Reporters sans frontières, the organization
that has been feverishly attacking Cuba in recent years in Europe and other
parts of the world, have been conceived and established by Publicis, the global
advertising giant. Amongst its most important clients, Publicis has contracts
with the U.S. Army, Bacardí and other Miami mafia representatives, including
some who are financing notorious terrorists such as Luis Posada Carriles."
Reporters Sans Frontières along with, the U.S. army, Bacardí and CANF 11/20/2003 Granma: "THE
most dishonest anti-Cuba publicity campaigns by Reporters sans frontières, the
organization that has been feverishly attacking Cuba in recent years in Europe
and other parts of the world, have been conceived and established by Publicis,
the global advertising giant. Amongst its most important clients, Publicis has
contracts with the U.S. Army, Bacardí and other Miami mafia representatives,
including some who are financing notorious terrorists such as Luis Posada
Carriles. The general secretary of Reporters sans frontières, CIA operative
Robert Ménard – who devoted himself in the 1960s to infiltrating left-wing
groups including Trotskyite organizations – has acknowledged on several
occasions that Saatchi & Saatchi, the famous New York advertising agency, is
behind his attacks on Cuba, confirming that the huge commercial propaganda firm
provides its services "free of charge" to him."
John F. Kennedy: A dual-purpose assassination - An interview with Division Gen.
(r) Fabián Escalante Font ‘They were in Dallas’ (Second and final part) 11/11/2003 Radio
Progresso: "Tony Cuesta and I talked several times. Talking with him was
difficult, because he always spoke as if he were telling a secret. Several times
I told him: “Tony, it's me you're talking to. I'm the only person who can turn
on the microphones here and I haven't turned them on, so talk a bit louder
because I can't hear what you're saying.” It was like a big mystery, as if we
both were conspiring. One time, in the late 1970s, he asks me to go see him.
Probably it was a way to say thanks, because it was difficult for us to save his
life and the process of rehabilitation was very long. We had a long
conversation. We started talking about the exiles, about the principal
characters, Orlando Bosch, Antonio Veciana, Luis Posada Carriles, Jorge Mas
Canosa. But all of a sudden, I don't know how, we started talking about
Kennedy's assassination and the man paled and said more or less this: Herminio
Díaz and Eladio del Valle were in Dallas on that day, Nov. 22. I ask him why
he's telling me this. And he answers that he doesn't know anything else, but
that he does want us to know that Herminio Díaz and Eladio del Valle were
there."
Bush Passes on Cuban Exiles' Right 10/26/2003 LA Times: By Ann Louise
Bardach - "Bush's speech was carefully calibrated to appeal to a narrow — and
extremely reactionary — section of the exile community. He spoke about Cuban
dissidents jailed by Fidel Castro, but he failed to mention Cuba's most
prominent dissidents, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Oswaldo Paya, leader
of the respected Varela Project; and human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez.
Dissidents like Paya are ignored because, although they would like to see the
end of Castro's reign, they also argue that the U.S. embargo is
counterproductive. Moreover, such charismatic and popular figures represent a
threat to the ambitions of White House favorite Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, the
Miami congressman who has made no secret of his desire to succeed his uncle by
marriage, Castro — the sooner the better. Perhaps the clearest signal of just
how extreme the Bush policy is can be gleaned from the list of those invited to
the Rose Garden. Amply represented were members of the Cuban Liberty Council, a
group that broke away from the conservative Cuban American National Foundation
on the grounds that it was too moderate. Also present was Alberto Hernandez, an
exile known for his militancy who is profusely thanked for his support and
friendship in the memoirs of Luis Posada Carriles, currently in prison in Panama
on charges that he attempted to assassinate Castro… More stunning was the
omission of representatives from the Cuban American National Foundation, a
prominent exile group. The slight was viewed by insiders as part of ongoing
punishment for the group's not having endorsed Bush (or any other candidate) in
the 2000 presidential campaign. "These guys have no equal when it comes to
revenge," says one foundation board member… The current U.S. stance toward Cuba
has little to do with effective foreign policy and everything to do with
Miami-Dade politics. All of which may explain why Fidel Castro seems so amused
by George W. Bush, the 10th American president to face off against him. With
enemies like this, Castro hardly needs friends." You go, girl!
Panamanian justice rules that Posada and his accomplices should stand trial 9/8/2003 Granma
Five-star cell with a terrace facing the Canal 6/10/2003 Granma: "The
detention of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his three
accomplices is the subject of an international disinformation campaign, with the
complicity of certain figures from the Panamanian judicial system, whilst his
narco-lawyer and the Miami mafia are noisily planning his release."
Posada and his accomplices, active collaborators of Pinochet’s fascist police 3/26/2003 Granma: "DINA’s
objective was to physically eliminate opposition both inside and outside the
country. This was how Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo Sampoll and Gaspar
Jiménez Escobedo – all of them founders of the Coordination of United
Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), along with pediatrician and killer Orlando
Bosch – actively participated in a significant number of support tasks for
Pinochet’s junta, as advisors or providers of mercenaries, explosive materials
and logistical support. A declassified FBI report, dated April 29 1986, confirms
a meeting between exiled Cubans and Pinochet on March 17, 1975. Pinochet offered
them financial assistance on the condition that they unified the various
counterrevolutionary groups. He also promised to mediate in their favor before
heads of state in Paraguay and Uruguay, both countries living under cruel
dictatorships."
Posada reaffirms his determination to continue with his terrorist acts 3/7/2003 Granma: "Posada
recently reiterated his intentions in an interview with Miami’s Canal 23, in
which he defended terror with impunity, which comes as no surprise to anybody in
the city where the FBI protects terrorists and arrests those who infiltrate
terrorists’ ranks to put a stop to their criminal plans."
Discount for
terrorists - Florida Justice 2/14/2003 Granma: "Miami-Dade County Judge
José Rodríguez abruptly and suspiciously reduced Calatayud’s bond from the
$200,000 originally set at the time of his arrest to $50,000 USD, thanks to the
pharmacy owner’s lawyer arguing that his client had insufficient resources… A
felony charge of this magnitude is extremely serious and could earn him 30 years
in jail plus a $100,000 USD fine. Calatayud is simultaneously accused of
defrauding Medicaid, which could cost him various years in prison and a fine of
tens of thousands of dollars. The pharmacy owner, not the pharmacist as the
Miami press would have it, also owns La Primera Farmacia Latina, on 300 SW 107th
Avenue in Miami. He lives in a luxurious residence on 14232 SW 21 Terrace. It
doesn’t take much imagination to figure out that he has considerable financial
resources and could take on board any important financial need." Details follow
on Calatayud's career as terrorist, his associations with Posada Carilles and
numerous other terrorists.
MIAMI IN SHOCK - Leader of anti-Chávez march arrested on fraud charges 2/3/2003 Granma: nice
bio - "El Nuevo Herald failed to mention Calatayud’s previous record in
illicitly approving funds. As far back as 1978, in cahoots with Miami terrorists
Rafael, Raúl Villaverde Lamadrid, Pedro Lucas Roig and Antonio de la Cova, he
was investigated for embezzling Medicaid. As a member of the terrorist
organization RECE, founded and funded by the Bacardí Company and the CIA,
Calatayud, a veteran of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, participated in
various terrorist conspiracies alongside then-CIA operative Jorge Mas Canosa.
From the outset he actively participated in terrorist activities with characters
like Luis Posada Carriles, currently in prison in Panama, and Orlando Bosch, who
presently resides in Miami. In 1973, Calatayud organized a plan to sabotage the
Cuban Embassy in Paris, France. The plot failed in light of the explosive device
killing terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz as he was activating it. The Miami
swindler also actively participated in a conspiracy to assassinate Cuban
President Fidel Castro during a visit to Mexico. He personally hired Mexican
resident and "veteran" mercenary Manuel Camargo to check out the airport and
other places of interest in the Mexican capital for the express purpose of
planning the failed attempt. Calatayud later directed the Cuban Independence
Party, a hard-line terrorist group out of South Florida. During the 1990s he was
information chief of WQBA La Cubanisima radio station. He ultimately headed
"Project Cuba," appointing himself general director of the organization. Various
sources confirm that Calatayud ordered and directed the bombing of the Cuban
Commercial Office in Montreal, Canada on April 4, 1972, causing the death of a
young Cuban diplomat, Sergio Pérez Castillo."
Posada conspires in prison 12/19/2002 Granma: "During a visit to El Renacer
prison to record a television report on a cultural event for Mothers Day (a
December festivity in Panama), a Panamanian TVN television camera team was
witness to an unexpected meeting between Luis Posada Carriles, the hemisphere’s
most dangerous terrorist, and known Miami terrorist Ignacio Castro Matos."
The lost illusions of Posada and his accomplices 12/10/2002 Granma: "Traumatized.
There aren’t many other words to describe Posada Carriles and his three henchmen
on leaving the court on Thursday, December 5 after discovering the extent of the
deceit practiced on them over the months by their defense attorney drugs lawyer
Rogelio Cruz… Cruz, a former state attorney and millionaire who lost his
position some years ago due to his links with Colombian drug cartels and a
series of financial maneuvers that could have sent him to jail, is confronting a
team of top-level lawyers in this country, doctors and university professors who
are exercising their skills on behalf of various popular groups. And without
charge, out of solidarity with trade union, student and indigenous organizations
and the Cuban Revolution."
The lost illusions of Posada and his accomplices 12/10/2002 Granma: "Traumatized.
There aren’t many other words to describe Posada Carriles and his three henchmen
on leaving the court on Thursday, December 5 after discovering the extent of the
deceit practiced on them over the months by their defense attorney drugs lawyer
Rogelio Cruz… Cruz, a former state attorney and millionaire who lost his
position some years ago due to his links with Colombian drug cartels and a
series of financial maneuvers that could have sent him to jail, is confronting a
team of top-level lawyers in this country, doctors and university professors who
are exercising their skills on behalf of various popular groups. And without
charge, out of solidarity with trade union, student and indigenous organizations
and the Cuban Revolution."
Trial of exiles in anti-Castro plot halted in Panama after 4 ½ hours 12/6/2002 Miami
Herald: "The trial of the man that Cuba calls its ''most wanted terrorist'' and
three Cuban Americans started and halted Thursday after a lawyer insisted they
be charged with trying to kill Fidel Castro in 2000. Luis Posada Carriles,
Gaspar Jiménez and Pedro Remón of Miami and Guillermo Novo of New Jersey, who
have been jailed for two years, groaned when the judge suspended the
long-awaited trial after only 4 ½ hours."
Behind Posada: Drug Trafficking 12/4/2002 Granma: Coca Contra, again -
"Panamanian sources confirm links between José Valladares Acosta, accomplice of
terrorist gang leader Luis Posada Carriles and Orestes Cosío, recently deported
from the United States for drug trafficking and involvement in three murders •
The extremely dangerous terrorist has always maintained links with drug
trafficking circles in Miami - the U.S. drugs capital."
Behind Posada: Drug Trafficking 12/4/2002 Granma: Coca Contra, again -
"Panamanian sources confirm links between José Valladares Acosta, accomplice of
terrorist gang leader Luis Posada Carriles and Orestes Cosío, recently deported
from the United States for drug trafficking and involvement in three murders •
The extremely dangerous terrorist has always maintained links with drug
trafficking circles in Miami - the U.S. drugs capital."
The Miami mafia’s September 11 9/11/2002 Granma: "On that same date in
1980, Miami mafia capos were celebrating the success of their latest feat of
terrorism: the murder of Félix García Rodríguez, a Cuban diplomatic at the
United Nations, carried out in a New York street by Pedro Remón, the deadliest
killer at their disposal. It was the one and only assassination of a UN diplomat
and the news immediately made world headlines. Pedro Remón, who was never
punished for his crime and continued his life as a terrorist, is currently
detained in Panama with gang leader Luis Posada Carriles; he could soon be
returning, unpunished, to his Florida residence."
Posada in El Renacer, 60 meters from the Panama Canal 8/7/2002 Granma: "For
many observers, Posada Carriles’ arrival at El Renacer Rehabilitation Center and
reunion with the rest of his terrorist gang, looks like another attempt to
illegally spirit him out of the country. The move adds to the Panamanian
authorities’ unjustifiable rejection of an extradition request by the Cuban
government, a lack of response to the Venezuelan government’s extradition
request, the many legal irregularities and constant visits to Panama by big-time
Miami mafia members."
Cuban warns of Posada Carriles’ possible escape 6/24/2002 Granma: Posada
was Felix Rodriguez #2 at Ilo Pango air force base in El Salvador, the source of
much Coca Contra trafficking in the 80's. Felix is a long time CIA employee
close to George Bush senior and the CIA rep in on the Che take down.
Nota del
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores: Luis Posada Carriles 6/23/2002 AIN,
Cuba: narcoterrorist Posada about to flee - "El Ministerio de Relaciones
Exteriores ha conocido que en días pasados, el señor Rogelio Cruz, abogado
defensor del connotado terrorista Luis Posada Carriles, anunció que su defendido
ha sido trasladado a una clínica privada en Panamá alegando su deteriorado
estado de salud."
REICH-POSADA-BOSCH - The Axis of Deceit 4/5/2002 Granma
Posada and his Gang in Panama-12 Mar 2002 3/12/2002 Radio Havana
El Salvador pedirá la extradición de Posada Carriles 3/9/2002 El Nuevo
Herald: The Cubans say this is to free the narcoterrorist, as he has many
friends in El Salvador.
POSADA CARRILES - Four bloody decades 2/28/2002 Granma: "...a professor at
Tufts University, also an investigative reporter, who exposed himself to the
worst reprisals by revealing previously unpublished information about the
"private lives" of the CIA and the Miami mafia. In two alternative Internet
publications, Professor Jerry Meldon released a "biography" of the best known
Cuban exile drug traffickers, especially the central figure: arch-terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles. Basing himself on a series of declassified secret documents,
Meldon bravely describes Posada Carriles’ relationship with the late Jorge Mas
Canosa, founder and leader of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) and
frequent guest at the White House under Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton."
Uncle Sam's Favorite Terrorists 2/28/2002 Antifa: by Jerry Meldon, 1998 -
extensive review of narcoterrorist Posada and the CANF
POSADA CARRILES - Four bloody decades 2/28/2002 Granma: "...a professor at
Tufts University, also an investigative reporter, who exposed himself to the
worst reprisals by revealing previously unpublished information about the
"private lives" of the CIA and the Miami mafia. In two alternative Internet
publications, Professor Jerry Meldon released a "biography" of the best known
Cuban exile drug traffickers, especially the central figure: arch-terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles. Basing himself on a series of declassified secret documents,
Meldon bravely describes Posada Carriles’ relationship with the late Jorge Mas
Canosa, founder and leader of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) and
frequent guest at the White House under Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton."
PANAMA PAVES THE WAY FOR RELEASE OF TERRORIST LUIS POSADA CARRILES 2/22/2002 Radio
Havana: the endless power of the Miami narcoterrorists - "The government of
Panama appears to be preparing the way for the release of international
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and three of his accomplices. During the nightly
roundtable discussion -- broadcast live on Cuban radio and television Thursday
evening -- it was revealed that the four terrorists will face reduced charges
and could be released awaiting trial."
Castro foe won't face murder plot charge 2/20/2002 Miami Herald: Posada
Carriles was Felix Rodriguez' #2 at Ilo Pango, the center of the Coca Contra
trade. He could have blown that wide open…
Destacan en Cuba decisión venezolana de tramitar extradición Posada Carriles 12/26/2001 AIN,
Cuba: Posada, narcotraficante extraordinario, apoyado por Miami
Venezuela initiates extradition procedures for terrorist Posada Carriles 12/26/2001 Granma: ""Luis
Posada Carriles fled the San Carlos Garrison [in Venezuela] on September 8,
1982, where he was being held. On that occasion he was captured and brought
before the courts once again, but he managed to escape [again] on August 18,
1985," Dávila said." Word is he was aided by Jorge Menos Canosa, mas o menos.
U.S.
authorities must act against the Miami mafia and extreme right 12/20/2001 Granma: What,
there are terrorists in Miami, and the FBI does nothing? "He cited the cases of
Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, both of whom have an extensive history
of links to the CIA, and who masterminded the sabotage of a Cuban commercial
airliner in mid-flight on October 6, 1976, causing the deaths of 73 innocent
persons. Orlando Bosch, Fernando pointed out, is living freely in Miami, thanks
to the parole granted by former president George Bush, in spite of being
considered a dangerous and a notorious terrorist by authorities in the U.S.
Justice Department. He charged that the influence and pressure exerted by Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen, Republican congresswoman from Florida and protector of terrorists,
was behind the presidential parole granted to Bosch. The evidence presented by
Fernando’s defense confirms that Orlando Bosch continues conspiring in Miami to
commit acts of terrorism against Cuba. The FBI is aware of documents concerned
and nobody has arrested him."
Denuncia Cuba estratagemas para no enjuiciar a Posada Carriles 11/22/2001 Agencia
Cubana de Noticias: Details the stratagems of the Miami Mafia, including the
CANF, to get Luis Posada Carilles, one of the most horrendous terrorists in the
Americas, off the hook from having attempted the assassination of Fidel and
2,000 Panamanians with a large bomb.
Cuban Missive Crisis 2/1/2001 Miami New Times: "But each, through his
court-appointed lawyer, has admitted to spying for a good reason: to protect the
lives of people in Cuba from extremist elements of the exile movement. From
people who might be crazy enough to bomb hotels in Havana, assassinate Fidel
Castro, or even invade the island -- it has been known to happen. In fact three
of the men about which the Wasp Network was worried -- Luis Posada Carriles,
Guillermo Novo Sampoll, and Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo-- currently are under arrest
in Panama for a plot to kill Castro during last November's Ibero-American
Summit."
THE RETURN OF THE CONDOR 1/5/2001 Prensa Latina: "Cuban-American terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles' recent detention in Panama, for leading a commando group
that brought explosive devices into that country to attempt to assassinate Cuban
President Fidel Castro during the 10th Ibero-American Summit is daily acquiring
greater importance. In the many recent trials against dictatorships of the
South, these same people appear to be accomplices in the so-called Operation
Condor."
CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER 12/15/2000 Zmag: "The Cuban American
National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential
electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be
a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named Luis
Posada Carriles, one of the most notorious terrorists among Cuban expatriots. In
an autobiography published in Honduras in 1994, Posada names Feliciano Foyo as
one of his financial backers."
Miami-Dade Reversal -- A Cuban Terrorist Payback To Bush Family? 12/7/2000 Pacific
News: "At the core of the CANF terrorist connection was Mas Canosa's personal
friendship with two other Cubans who had worked for the CIA, Luis Posada and
Felix Rodriguez. In 1985 Rodriguez was reporting personally to Vice President
Bush's office about his logistical support for the Contras from a base in El
Salvador. That same year, Mas Canosa helped Posada escape from a Venezuelan
prison and relocate in El Salvador as part of the Rodriguez Contra supply
operation. (Seven years later, at a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising dinner,
President Bush said, "I salute Jorge Mas.") "
New York Times interview with terrorist Luís Posada Carriles 7/12/1998 Free
the Five: "Over the years, Posada estimated, Mas sent him more than $200,000.
"He never said, 'This is from the foundation,' " Posada recalled. Rather, he
said with a chuckle, the money arrived with the message, "This is for the
church."
| Panama, August 2 (RHC)--Social and student organizations
working with Panama's Solidarity with Cuba Association have denounced
escape plans by a group of terrorists that plotted an attempt against
the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro during the last Ibero-American
Summit.
Well-known international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and three accomplices, Guillermo Novo Sampol, Gaspar Gimenez Escobedo and Pedro Remon Crispin, are being held in Panama, accused of plotting to assassinate the Cuban leader during an activity at the University of Panama in Panama City. Had it succeeded, the plot would have claimed not just the life of Fidel Castro, but also more than 2,000 Panamanian students and solidarity activists who had gathered there to hear the Cuban leader speak. Solidarity groups in Panama have denounced a propaganda campaign launched by right wing anti-Cuba extremists in Miami to make Posada Carriles and his accomplices appear as the "innocent victims" of a trap laid for them in Panama. The solidarity activists also pointed to false allegations regarding Posada Carriles' presumed poor health conditions, charging that they are tactics aimed at confusing public opinion and favoring requests for the defendants to be placed under house arrest, rather than being held in jail, in order to facilitate their escape. A press release issued by the solidarity groups warns that it should come as no surprise if the terrorists manage to escape if they are finally removed from jail and placed under house arrest. Evidence of that, says the statement, is their long criminal records, which include escapes from prisons in Venezuela and Mexico and the use of false passports to travel from one country to another. The document also charges that the four terrorists have continued with activities against Cuba from inside the Panamanian prison, where they have been visited by Santiago Alvarez, the organizer of a recent plan to infiltrate a terrorist group to plant bombs in Havana's world famous Tropicana night club. Carriles is known to be responsible for numerous terrorist actions against Cuba and several other nations, including the 1976 bomb explosion on a Cuban airliner in mid-air that claimed the lives of all 73 people on board. |
Terrorists’ accomplices run the CANF, 5/01
Granma, 5/25/01 That mafia organization is led and financed by unconditional supporters of killers Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles • In order to improve their image, they are Americanizing their message, now that U.S. public opinion has discovered their true face. NOW that it is politically liquidated, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) will have to invent a new name for its organization, since it is led and financed by people born in the United States and is intimately linked to terrorists such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. The case of Elián González has revealed to U.S. public opinion who are the figures who have controlled and supported the most reactionary and dirty-dealing sector of the Cuban exile community in the United States, having dared to challenge the U.S. government and inciting disdain for the patriotic symbols of the country that took them like spoiled children. The Cuban press has commented that Joe García will be named CANF executive director. This man, as a journalist revealed in Havana, directed the Exodus program to take Cubans living in third countries to the United States. Alberto Hernández, an accomplice of terrorists, will continue to be president of the CANF. This individual raised $200,000 USD to bribe judges in the trials of Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. The CANF hoped to establish an operations center on the Nicaragua-Honduras border to act against Cuban civilians, by attacking innocent people. García, whom Cuban reporter Reynaldo Taladrid called a brother-to-the-death of Orlando Bosch, has been accused of sexual assault. When the Exodus program became the center of a scandal, in which Joe García’s shady maneuvers related to the medical insurance of Cubans using his clinic in Miami came to light, he lost the Miami-Dade elections to candidate Miguel Díaz de la Portilla. The latter’s campaign was centered around attacks on Mas Canosa. Joe García then moved on to Jeb Bush’s team, as part of a commission monitoring large corporations. Now that Al gore has lost ground in the campaign, according to recent surveys, the CANF is trying to get on the good side George Bush, who could very well be the next president, stating that it is going to Americanize its message. The CANF has raised $3 million USD for elections. As Taladrid pointed out, this money is invested so that the organization can then achieve what it wants. |
Luis Posada Carriles is a career narcoterrorist who spent time in a Venezuelan jail for the 1976 bombing a Cubana airliner, killing all 73 on board. He escaped after 8 years in 1985 thanks to a bribe from Jorge Mas Canosa, the now deceased head of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF)[1]. He has been tied to the importation of large quantities of cocaine into the US in support of the Contras in Nicaragua in the 80's ("Coca Contra") and to a series of bombings in Cuba. Posada was interviewed by reporters from the New York Times in 1998 and told them of his ties to the CANF, a tax exempt right wing group created under Reagan and a beneficiary of substantial federal funds for running Radio and TV Marti, which beam their propaganda to Cuba. The Times ran two articles, on July 12 and 13, 1999. They have caused a sensation and led to Posada's retraction of his interview. The Times has him on tape and stands by their story. In addition, elements of his interview had already appeared in autobiographical writings done with a publicist. Posada has been tied to large scale cocaine trafficking in support of the Contras in Peter Dale Scott's book, Cocaine Politics. Posada was second in charge of a major Contra resupply operation at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador. He was recruited there by his old friend Felix Rodriguez, a long-time CIA operative who was the CIA liaison with the Bolivian forces that captured and executed Che Guevera. Rodriguez was in charge of the Contra resupply operation and its cocaine trafficking component at Ilopango, a nerve center for the Contra resupply operation, and Posada became his second in command. For some updates on the later course of these trends, check out: Miami FBI Office: terrorism, drugs, and politics, updated 3/25/00: Miami FBI head, said to be brother of CANF attorney, personally entrapped INS officer Faget. Nice touch: Miami FBI spokesman had a felony drug trafficking warrant out on him from Canada in '98! NarcoNews does a great job of covering the drug war in South America, but does not cover much of the Cuban American angle. It does however provide good overall context. [1] See in Spanish: "Gusanos de Miami e intelectuales mexicanos: Confunden derechos humanos y contrarrevolución" by Salvador del Rio at www.m3w3.com.mx/SIEMPRE/2279/columna/Columna10.html
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La Alborada - Cuban American
Alliance
Volume 1, Number 9, CAAEF Newsletter, January 1999
Lots of documentation on this issue
Contra Resuppliers Who Did Not Testify, Part II,
The Guardian, 9/30/87
Eugene Hasenfus' testimony on Posada's coordinating role at Ilopango
The Miami Herald on Posada's Cuba bomb campaign, 11/19/97
The article that broke the story
Granma, Cuba's daily, recounts the New York Times articles of July 12&13, 1998, 7/17/98, (Español)
ALLEGATIONS OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CIA AND THE CONTRAS IN COCAINE
TRAFFICKING
TO THE UNITED STATES (96-0143-IG): Volume II: The Contra Story
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/cocaine2/contents.html
On the CIA site, the CIA's forthright answer to all these scurrilous allegations! Actually
contains many damning admissions...
Accused Cuban bomber calmly confesses on TV, September 16, 1997 http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/16/cuba.bombing/
| Contra Resuppliers Who Did Not Testify Part II by Peter Shinkle and Dennis Bernstein The Guardian, September 30, 1987 Extract: How About Hasenfus? |
| Miami Herald, November 17, 1997 Exiles directed blasts that rocked island's tourism, investigation reveals By JUAN TAMAYO Herald Staff Writer SAN SALVADOR—A spate of bombings in Cuba this summer was the work of a ring of Salvadoran car thieves and armed robbers directed and financed by Cuban exiles in El Salvador and Miami, a two-month investigation by The Herald shows. The ring's leader is Francisco Chavez, son of an arms dealer with close ties to Cuban exiles and a pistol-packing ruffian who apparently was in Havana just hours before the first bomb exploded at the luxury Melia Cohiba Hotel. But the Salvadorans were only delivery boys for the bombs, paid and taught to assemble the explosives by a Cuban exile—a tight-lipped, superbly disciplined man in his 30s who has participated in several other anti-Castro operations in Central and South America. And it was Luis Posada Carriles, a veteran of the Cuban exiles' secret war against President Fidel Castro and explosives expert in his 60s, who was the key link between El Salvador and the South Florida exiles who raised $15,000 for the operation. For the rest of this scoop, which stunned Miami when it came out, see http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y97/nov97/17e1.htm |
| Conmoción en Estados Unidos por artículos del New York Times sobre actividades terroristas contra Cuba El periódico The New York Times publicó los pasados días 12 y 13 de julio extensos artículos basados en una entrevista realizada al terrorista de origen cubano Luis Posada Carriles, que han causado una gran conmoción en los medios de prensa y la opinión pública norteamericanas, así como reacciones en muchos otros países. En sus declaraciones al diario norteamericano, Posada Carriles -cuya extensa hoja de servicios contra el pueblo cubano, además de su participación en sabotajes, planes de atentados y otras acciones similares en la guerra sucia contra Cuba, incluye la organización del sabotaje al avión de Cubana en Barbados en 1976 que costó la vida de 73 personas inocentes, entre ellas los adolescentes que integraban el equipo juvenil de esgrima de nuestro país- reconoce explícitamente, con absoluto cinismo, su participación en estas acciones terroristas y el financiamiento y apoyo recibido de la Fundación Nacional Cubano Americana, y explica la evidente apatía de las autoridades norteamericanas en investigar su actividad terrorista contra Cuba por el hecho de lo que llamó "su vieja relación con las agencias norteamericanas de inteligencia y los órganos encargados de hacer cumplir la ley". En el primero de los artículos, el diario señala: "Un exiliado cubano que ha llevado a cabo una campaña de estallidos de bombas e intentos de asesinato dirigidos contra Fidel Castro, dice que sus esfuerzos fueron respaldados financieramente durante más de un decenio por los líderes cubano-estadounidenses de uno de los grupos de cabildeo más influyentes de los Estados Unidos. "El exiliado, Luis Posada Carriles, dijo haber organizado una ola de estallidos de bombas el año pasado en hoteles, restaurantes y discotecas de Cuba que ocasionaron la muerte de un turista italiano y la alarma del gobierno cubano. El señor Posada fue entrenado por la Agencia Central de Inteligencia en demolición y guerra de guerrillas en el decenio de 1960. "En una serie de entrevistas grabadas en un complejo amurallado del Caribe, Posada expresó que la colocación de bombas en los hoteles y otras operaciones habían sido apoyadas por líderes de la Fundación Nacional Cubano Americana. Su fundador y jefe, Jorge Mas Canosa, quien murió el año pasado, fue acogido en la Casa Blanca por los Presidentes Reagan, Bush y Clinton." Sigue diciendo el New York Times: "Aunque la Fundación, que no paga impuestos, ha declarado que trata de derrocar al gobierno comunista de Cuba únicamente por medios pacíficos, Posada manifestó que los líderes de la Fundación discretamente financiaban sus operaciones. Mas Canosa supervisaba personalmente el flujo de dinero y el apoyo logístico, dijo. "`Jorge lo controlaba todo', expresó Posada. `Cuando yo necesitaba dinero, yo decía: Dame 5 mil dólares, dame 10 mil, dame 15 mil, y ellos me los mandaban.' "A través de los años, Posada calculó que Mas Canosa le había enviado más de 200 mil dólares. `El nunca dijo: Esto es de la Fundación', recordó Posada. Por el contrario, recordó con una risita sarcástica, el dinero llegaba con el mensaje: `Esto es para la iglesia.'"3 Según los autores de los artículos, "por primera vez, Posada describió también el papel que había desempeñado en algunos de los más importantes hechos de la Guerra Fría en los que los exiliados cubanos fueron participantes clave. Fue entrenado para la invasión por Playa Girón en un campamento en Guatemala, pero no llegó a desembarcar en las playas cubanas [...]. Fueron exiliados cubanos como Posada los reclutados por la CIA para los subsiguientes atentados contra la vida de Castro. "Encarcelado por uno de los más vergonzosos ataques anticubanos -la colocación de una bomba en un avión civil de Cubana en 1976-, escapó más tarde de una cárcel venezolana para formar parte del eslabón principal de la cruzada anticomunista de la Casa Blanca en el hemisferio occidental iniciada por Reagan: las actividades clandestinas del teniente coronel Oliver North para suministrar armas a los contras nicaragüenses."
Seguidamente el diario comenta: |
| Please forward all responses to CAAEF at: caaef@igc.org
or see P/F info at end of letter. I hope many of you will agree to have your name or organization on the letter. Many of us are working hard at keeping this issue alive inside Washington. This is one step - please stay posted for more to come. Please pass this to others you think will sign on. Note the deadline to have your information in is 11 p.m. on Monday, 20th. The letter will be hand-delivered on Tuesday, 21st July. You are also encouraged to send your own letter, however we would like to get a good showing of solidarity from our communities. Thank you all for your support! Paddy ===================================================== Send a message: "YES add my name __________ and organization ____________ to the
Janet Reno letter." Call 202-543-6780 or fax your OK to 202-543-6434 or simply
respond by e-mail to caaef@igc.org NO LATER THAN MONDAY
JUNE 20 at 11 PM!! July **, 1998 The Honorable Janet Reno Dear Attorney General Reno: We are writing as members of the Cuban American Community to express our deep concern about recent news reports of financial links between people living in the U.S. and Luis Posada Carriles, the alleged mastermind of a series of bombings targeting Cuban hotels, restaurants and night clubs last year. In total, 12 bombings occurred in Cuba between April and September 1997. On September 4, 1997, a bomb exploded at the Copacabana Hotel, claiming the life of Fabio di Celmo, an Italian citizen. We request a full investigation of these reports, and if warranted, the prosecution of those involved in violations of U.S. law. According to the New York Times, Posada Carriles admitted to receiving financial support for acts of international terrorism over the course of several years from the late Jorge Mas Canosa, founder and long-time Chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation(CANF). Additionally, the New York Times claims to be in possession of independent evidence that indicates that financial support for the specific purpose of planting bombs in Cuba last summer came from a number of other individuals within the United States. We are particularly disturbed by reports that the FBI responded indifferently to credible evidence of the involvement of American citizens when it was presented to them by a Cuban American businessman based in Guatemala at the time of the bombings. We believe that had such evidence come to your attention, it may have helped avert the injuries and loss of life caused by the bombings. These revelations follow on the heels of an apparent foiled assassination attempt against Fidel Castro by several Cuban Americans who were arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of Puerto Rico in October of last year. Recent media stories have reported that one of the rifles found aboard the cabin cruiser La Esperanza, which was owned by a member of the Executive Board of CANF, was registered to the President of CANF. As Cuban Americans, we share a great concern for the situation of our loved ones on the island. However, we strongly oppose the use of violence as a means of demonstrating political opposition. Regardless of the nature of the Cuban government, we can not condone actions that violate international and U.S. law, and most importantly, place our loved ones in danger. We have committed ourselves to the humanitarian cause of reconciliation between Cubans in exile and our brothers and sisters on the island. We disapprove of any person who from U.S. soil conducts or finances acts of violence against Cubans or Cuban Americans. We call on you to do all in your power to investigate and prosecute any person under U.S. jurisdiction that is found to be involved in acts of violence against the Cuban state and people. Further, we call on you to condemn in the strongest terms the use of terror to achieve political goals. We look forward to further contact with you on this issue. Sincerely, |
Powderburns; Cocaine, Contras and the Drug War
by Celerino III Castillo. To purchase ==> 
Very readable account of the Contra resupply effort and the role of Cuban Americans among others.
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