GRANMA
March 19, 2007
Posada Carriles Seeks Release on Bail
EL PASO, Texas, March 18.- Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles will have another
bail hearing before a US judge on April 2, after unsuccessfully seeking a
definitive release from immigration authorities in February.
Posada has been in jail for over a year and is charged with immigration
fraud, but not for his alleged terrorist acts, including plotting the midair
bombing of a Cuban Airliner in 1976 that killed 73 persons.
Felipe Millan, Posada's attorney, said on Sunday that it is time for his
client to obtain a release on bail, reported EFE.
In January 2007, Posada was transferred from the Immigration Detention
Center in El Paso, Texas to a prison in Otero, New Mexico. He had been at
the El Paso facility since May 2005 after his illegal entry to the US in
March of that year.
Posada, who escaped from prison in Venezuela while awaiting trial for the
plane bombing, is also the subject of a formal extradition request filed by
Venezuela with the US based on a long standing treaty. Thus far the Bush
administration has refused to honor the agreement.
The Cuban-born, naturalized Venezuelan has also boasted of orchestrating
several bombings at Cuban hotels and tourist centers in the 1990s. Italian
Fabio di Celmo was killed as a result of one such attack.
Posada was in prison in Panama from 2000-2004 after being detained with an
arsenal of weapons to be used in a plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel
Castro. He received a presidential pardon by ex-president Mireya Moscoso
during her last days in office.
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