Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The United States government should indict Luis Posada Carriles for terrorism

A declaration signed by a large group of intellectuals demands that the United States government should indict Luis Posada Carriles for terrorism or comply with the extradition request made by Venezuela, which up to the moment has gone unanswered.

Among those signing are Peace Nobel Prize Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Brazilian theologian Frei Betto, actor Danny Glover, linguist Noam Chomsky, writers Gore Vidal and Alice Walker, and Uruguayan writers Mario Benedetti and Eduardo Galeano. At the Progreso deadline, more than one thousand important figures have signed the document.

The declaration asserts that the United States “protects the Western Hemisphere most notorious terrorist, tries to deceive public opinion with endless pseudo legal maneuvering and refuses to judge him for his real crimes.”

Posada Carriles, born in Cuba and a Venezuelan citizen, is accused of numerous acts of terrorism, among them the bombing of a Cuban commercial airliner in 1976 in which 73 people died."





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