marjorie says...
Yep, the notorious international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is *still* drinking mojitos in Miami. As noted on m-pyre repeatedly over the years, Posada is living a comfy life in the United States (now in Miami along with his other anti-Castro cronies) regardless of the fact that he bombed a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed 73 innocent people.
I fully understand that the United States is the land of hypocrisy, with or without Luis Posada Carriles living in Miami. But for me, and for many others, this instance is a gross embodiment of decades upon decades of destructive U.S. policy toward Latin America. Our role in the destabilization of Latin American social movements as well as the overthrow of democratically elected governments in that region is well documented. Really, in this regard Posada must feel he is owed the right to live in Miami...because this country has been his patron. And this is not being disproved, is it?
This past Friday, a Senior Analyst with the National Security Archives testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight about the role of Posada in the bombing of the Cuban airliner. See a summary of Peter Kornbluh's testimony on the National Archives Website below. Read it and weep, or whatever you do when you get angry. Or, you could call your congresspeople and tell them to give Posada the boot. If we are truly a country that stands against attacks on civilian populations (also known as "terrorism") then it has to be across the board.
"Kornbluh argued that the declassified records demonstrated that Posada had concrete foreknowledge of the bombing; was in possession of a surveillance report on Cuban targets that included the doomed plane; received coded messages immediately after the plane went into the ocean from the men who placed the bombs; and was quickly identified by multiple FBI and CIA sources in Venezuela as one of two masterminds of the attack that claimed the lives of all 73 passengers and crew.
"Kornbluh called Posada “one of the most prolific purveyors of political violence in recent history” and said that the evidence in the plane bombing was “more than sufficient” to have detained Posada for acts of international terrorism under the Patriot Act. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales refused to designate Posada as a terrorist and a judge dismissed immigration fraud charges against him last spring. Posada now lives freely in Miami, as does Orlando Bosch, who the CIA and FBI both identify as a co-conspirator in the plane bombing. “The United States now finds itself in the frankly inexplicable position of having not one but both men who our own intelligence agencies identified as responsible for bringing down a civilian airliner living free and unfettered lives in Florida,” Kornbluh told the Committee."
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