In
the afternoon of April 8, 2011, the farce that had begun 13
weeks ago in El Paso, Texas, came to an end when terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles was acquitted of all the charges pressed against him
during a migration trial.
To
all those who have been following the sinister history behind this
terrorist and his links with the successive U.S. governments, the FBI
and the CIA in his dirty war against Cuba, this is an additional
proof of the support and protection that the U.S. authorities have
traditionally granted to him.
Since
the moment of his landing in Florida after traveling from Isla
Mujeres in Mexico on board of the “Santrina” boat, as was timely
denounced by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, Posada Carriles has
been, as he always was, under the tutelage and protection of the US
government.
His
being tried for committing perjury during an immigration process and
not for being a terrorist is an outrage against the people of Cuba
and the families that were plunged into mourning by the actions
committed by Posada.
The
shameless verdict at El Paso is in full contradiction with the
anti-terrorist policy that the U.S. government is said to profess,
which has even led to military interventions against other nations,
taking a toll of thousands of human lives.
The
U.S. government is absolutely aware of Posada Carriles’ involvement
in the blowing-up in mid-air of a Cubana de Aviación airliner off
Barbados in 1976, the bombing spree against Cuban tourist facilities
in 1997 and his plans to attempt against the life of our Commander in
Chief in Panama in 2000, for which he was even convicted in that
country.
The
U.S. government has all the evidence of the crimes committed by
Posada, many of which were presented in court at El Paso.
We
are still to see if the U.S. government is capable of either filing a
new claim against Posada Carriles on a charge of terrorism or
accepting his extradition to Venezuela, as was requested more than
five years ago by that country, taking into account its legal
obligation derived from the international covenants it is party to
and the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373 of 2001, which was
promoted by the US government itself.
As
paradoxical as it may seem, while Posada Carriles is being acquitted,
five Cuban anti-terrorists remain unjustly imprisoned in the
United States for collecting information about the actions
perpetrated by terrorists of Cuban origin who, like Posada Carriles,
are walking free and with impunity down the streets of Miami.
Cuba
reaffirms that the U.S. government is the chief responsible for this
outcome and challenges it to take on its obligations in the struggle
against terrorism, without hypocrisy or double standards.
Havana,
April 9, 2011.
