On April 8th, 2011 following a 13 week trial, a jury in El Paso, Texas acquitted self-admitted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles of all charges he was facing after only three hours of deliberation.

Carriles, who was being tried for committing perjury during his entry onto U.S. Soil, is responsible for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban Airliner which killed all 73 innocent passengers on board. Other acts of terrorism perpetrated by Carriles include a string of hotel bombings in Cuba in the mid 90's which killed Italian-Canadian tourist Fabio di Celmo and injured many more.

However this terrorist was not on trial for the murder of these people. Carriles was on trial for lying to U.S. authorities upon entering the country when questioned about his terrorist crimes.

Much evidence of Carriles' terrorist crimes was presented during the trial including a recorded interview with a New York Times writer in which he admits to murder. But the U.S. government and legal system again, as it has many times in the past, came to the aid of the monster which it created.

Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA agent, has been acting on behalf of the U.S. governments' interests against Cuban people dating back to his involvement in the failed invasion of Cuba by U.S. backed mercenaries at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961.

Since then, Carriles has enjoyed impunity in his acts of terrorism against Cuba and other Latin American countries always receiving support from the U.S. government. The latest trial in the Carriles affair is no exception and again shows the double-standard of the U.S. government as it claims to fight a war on terror while supporting terrorists that work in the interest of the U.S. elite.

Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles will live out the extent of his life freely in Miami enjoying the many privileges afforded to those who help the U.S. government in their dirty war against the Cuban people.

In the mid 80's Carriles was awaiting trial in Venezuela where he was being charged for his role in the bombing of the Cuban airliner. With U.S. help Carriles was able to escape from Venezuela. Venezuela has filed an extradition request in order to proceed with the trial for Posada's involvement in the airplane bombing to no avail, while the U.S. created excuses to avoid sending him there where he will certainly receive the justice he deserves.

The Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver urges all peace-loving people to demand that the U.S. government immediately extradite Carriles to Venezuela to face charges for his terrorist crimes.

Furthermore the Committee demands that the U.S. government immediately free Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González known as the Cuban 5, from U.S. prisons.

The Cuban 5 have served almost 13 years in prison for investigating and reporting on acts of terrorists like Posada while the real criminals walk free in the U.S.


EXTRADITE POSADA TO VENEZUELA NOW!
FREE THE CUBAN 5 FROM U.S. JAILS NOW!