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Posada Carriles, Luis
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Most popular
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
