On Posada case
ICAP's message to solidarity movement
Published Apr 17, 2007 11:14 PM
This letter was published on April 12 by the Cuban Institute of
Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
Dear friends:
Our people have learned with profound indignation of the decision by Kathleen
Cardone, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, to grant release on bail to Luis
Posada Carriles, the most dangerous terrorist in the Western Hemisphere, main
perpetrator and the mastermind behind the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban
airliner in October 1976 with 73 people on board, including a delegation of
young Cuban athletes.
President Bush said: “Any person, organization or government that
supports, protects, or harbors terrorists is complicit in the murder of the
innocent, and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.”
Bail for this dangerous and unscrupulous murderer and the attempt to solely try
him for immigration crimes against the United States, is the absolute
responsibility of the White House and further proof of the falseness and
hypocrisy of the George W. Bush administration as well as another confirmation
of the double standards in its supposed crusade against terrorism.
The ruling by the federal judge on April 6 coincided with the 10th anniversary
of the start of a series of attacks on tourist resorts in Havana, which cost
the life of Italian citizen Fabio Di Celmo and injured many
Cubans—another of Posada Carriles’ criminal actions, which he
himself admitted, with matchless cynicism, to the United States media.
With respect to his release, international news agencies reported that the
judge’s decision included consenting to Posada Carriles’ residing
in the city of Miami, Florida—the same city that since 1959 has been home
to the most notorious anti-Cuban terrorists and the cradle of hundreds of
genocidal plans against our people. The same city where five heroic young
Cubans, anti-terrorist fighters, today the protagonists of an immense
international solidarity movement for their freedom, were unjustly subjected to
brutal sentences in a trial plagued with irregularities and held amidst the
intimidation and terror of those same terrorist groups.
For two years, Comrade Fidel Castro has been exposing the attempts by the
United States government to protect the murderer Posada Carriles, and alerting
international public opinion so that this notorious terrorist does not escape
justice, and so that the suffering of the families of his victims over the loss
of their loved ones is not aggravated by the pain of their murderer’s
impunity.
Today, Comrade Fidel, in his reflections on the granting of bail to Posada
Carriles, described this action as a brutal response by the United States
government to protect someone who trained in the art of killing and was
faithful to his trainers by killing and sowing pain not only among Cuban
families, but also among Latin American brothers and sisters, given his
complicity in the notorious Operation Condor. Posada Carriles, as Fidel
describes him, is a monster of torture, physical disappearance and death. For
that he should stand trial.
ICAP urges all friends of Cuba throughout the world to create a mass movement
to protest the perpetration of another attack on justice and human dignity.
We demand justice for the crimes of Posada Carriles not to go unpunished. This
battle is not only for Cuba and its glorious martyrs in defense of their
people; it is for humanity, the happiness of future generations and the
guarantee of a peaceful world.
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