With chants of "Extradite Posada now!" and "No Asylum for Posada", demonstrators across the U.S. and in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday, June 13, 2005, made clear their opposition to Luis Posada Cariles' recent appeal for political asylum in the United States.
Posada has a long and bloody history in the pay of the American CIA for his work in Central America. Declassified documents attest to the fact he was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal as well as pursuing murderous policies in El Salvador and Venezuela. He was imprisoned in Panama for conspiring to assassinate Cuba's president Fidel Castro but was pardoned by an outgoing Panamanian president with strong ties to the U.S.
A brief hearing on June 13, 2005 in El Paso, Texas resulted in Posada receiving a date for a bail hearing as well as a hearing for his asylum request, slated to be held in August of this year.
Venezuela is requesting that the United States extradite Posada to Venezuela to stand trial on charges relating to the bombing of a civilian Cuban airliner in 1976, which killed 73 people. The American government will be hard pressed to grant this self-admitted terrorist asylum, given their "anti-terrorist" policies. Public opinion across the U.S. and around the world is already building against such an action.
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