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Foiled plot against Venezuela

Foiled plot against Venezuela

5 August 2013
During an interview with Telesur, the Venezuelan Home Secretary Miguel Rodriguez Torres, gave more details about the failed attempt to destabilize and invade the country, on July 24th.
The matter had been revealed to the public by the president of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, during a special parliament session, July 25th.
According to the minister, the plot’s intent was to assassinate the president, Nicolas Maduro, to smuggle in 800 columbian mercenaries, and to provoke (...)

Posada Carriles: 11 charges, none for terrorism

Posada Carriles: 11 charges, none for terrorism

Havana (Cuba) | 11 January 2011
Criminal Luis Posada Carriles should answer to 11 charges, none of them for terrorism, in the trial that began today in El Paso, Texas, as pointed out in the Round Table aired by Cuban radio and television on Monday.

US Organizations Will Protest Posada Carriles’ Trial for False Swearing

Havana (Cuba) | 25 January 2010
Members of several US organizations will lead a public protest against terrorist Luis Posada Carriles on the morning of Monday, March 1, the day he will be tried just for perjury rather than for his terrorist acts.

International Law

Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin

by Sandro Cruz

Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin

Geneva (Switzerland) | 10 July 2007
The locking up of individuals on the US base of Guantanamo, Cuba, is an arbitrary form of dentention and part of the CIA secret prisons program discretely referred to as "proxy detentions". Contrary to the claims of certain governments, there is no such thing as a global war against terror, and Al Qaeda is but a metaphor. Martin Scheinin is a Finnish Law professor and was recently appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of Human Rights. He’s interviewed by Sandro Cruz for Voltaire Network.

Posada Carriles: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Posada Carriles: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Havana (Cuba) | 27 April 2007
A detailed analysis of the majority of the international press shows that a whole barrage of nouns are used when talking about Luis Posada Carriles; nevertheless the one that best describes him is almost always avoided: terrorist!

World Personalities Demand Justice in Luis Posada Carriles Case

23 April 2007
More than 3,000 Scholars and personalities from around the world issued a declaration urging Washington to meet its international obligations and try Luis Posada Carriles for his terrorist crimes or attend the extradition request made by Venezuela. Below we reproduce the declaration and signatures of those who initially joined the call for justice, posted on the Webpage http://www.porlajusticia.org

Washington Has Bought the Silence of Posada Carriles

Washington Has Bought the Silence of Posada Carriles

Havana (Cuba) | 20 April 2007
The Cuban government condemned the release on bail Thursday of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and said that the Bush administration is responsible for such a cruel and infamous action aimed at keeping Posada silent about the crimes he committed while working for the CIA when George H. W. Bush was its chief.

Cubans Strongly Condemn Release of Posada Carriles

Cubans Strongly Condemn Release of Posada Carriles

Havana (Cuba) | 20 April 2007
Thousands of Cuban youths strongly condemned on Thursday the double-standard behaviour of the US administration proven by the release of Luis Posada Carriles on bail.

Washington Ignored World Claim for Posada Carriles Extradition

Washington Ignored World Claim for Posada Carriles Extradition

Havana (Cuba) | 20 April 2007
US authorities decided to release Luis Posada Carriles on bail on Friday, turning a deaf ear on world claims for his extradition to Venezuela.

Posada Carriles Must Be Tried for terrorism, U.S. activists Demand

Posada Carriles Must Be Tried for terrorism, U.S. activists Demand

Havana (Cuba) | 16 April 2007
New voices in the United States demand that Luis Posada Carriles be tried for terrorism and not under migratory charges. Miami-based Cuban and Venezuelan organizations joined the U.S. National Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five and the ANSWER Coalition to announce a demonstration next May 11 at El Paso, Texas, where Posada Carriles is to face a trial under migratory charges, which has been denounced as a farce orchestrated by Washington.

Posada Carriles Case, the Suffering of a Cuban Mother

Posada Carriles Case, the Suffering of a Cuban Mother

Havana (Cuba) | 10 April 2007
Dora Lidia Garzon, 75, is one of the Cuban mothers who have suffered since October 1976 when her son was killed along another 72 people on board a Cubana airliner, which was bombed in mid air off the coast of Barbados by orders of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, just released on bond by a US judge in Texas.

US Judge Denies Posada’s Habeas Corpus Petition

US Judge Denies Posada's Habeas Corpus Petition

Havana (Cuba) | 22 February 2007
US judge Phillip Martinez ruled out a Habeas Corpus request issued by Luis Posada Carriles at a federal court in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday and described it as inadmissible.

Miami FBI Destroyed Posada’s File in 2003

Miami FBI Destroyed Posada's File in 2003

Havana (Cuba) | 24 October 2006
Hundreds of pieces of evidence disappeared from Héctor Pesquera’s FBI safe, while the Panamanian prosecution was asking the United States for documents to expand its evidence against the terrorist.

United States, Terrorist State

The Confessions of Luis Posada Carriles

The Confessions of Luis Posada Carriles

Caracas (Venezuela) | 20 June 2005
Latin America is mobilizing to support the extradition request against Luis Posada Carriles, currently sheltered in Miami and protected by the Bush Administration. The Cuban-born terrorist has become a symbol of the US methods of hemispheric domination and its double standard: on the one hand, they declare a global war on terrorism and, on the other, they use it. This case is even more outrageous considering that, four years ago, protected by his impunity, Posada Carriles revealed all the truth to the New York Times.

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Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin
International Law

The Confessions of Luis Posada Carriles
United States, Terrorist State

Foiled plot against Venezuela

Miami FBI Destroyed Posada’s File in 2003

World Personalities Demand Justice in Luis Posada Carriles Case

Posada Carriles: 11 charges, none for terrorism

Posada Carriles: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

US Organizations Will Protest Posada Carriles’ Trial for False Swearing

Posada Carriles Case, the Suffering of a Cuban Mother

Washington Ignored World Claim for Posada Carriles Extradition

Washington Has Bought the Silence of Posada Carriles

US Judge Denies Posada’s Habeas Corpus Petition

Cubans Strongly Condemn Release of Posada Carriles

Posada Carriles Must Be Tried for terrorism, U.S. activists Demand