Statement Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba

According with and statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Cuba, in the afternoon of April 8, 2011, the farce
that had begun thirteen weeks ago in El Paso, Texas, came to an end
when terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was acquitted of all the charges
pressed against him during a migration trial.

To all those who have been following the sinister history behind this
terrorist and his links with the successive US governments, the FBI
and the CIA in his dirty war against Cuba, this is an additional proof
of the support and protection that the US authorities have
traditionally granted to him.

Since the moment of his landing in Florida after traveling from Isla
Mujeres in Mexico on board of the "Santrina" boat, as was timely
denounced by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, Posada Carriles has
been, as he always was, under the tutelage and protection of the US
government.

He was tried for committing perjury during a migration process, not
for being a terrorist, and this is an outrage against the people of
Cuba and the families that were plunged into morning by the actions
committed by Posada.

The shameless verdict at El Paso is in full contradiction with the
anti-terrorist policy that the US government is said to profess, which
has even led to military interventions against other nations, taking a
toll of thousands of human lives.

The US government is absolutely aware of Posada Carriles' involvement
in the blowing-up in mid-air of a Cubana de Aviación airliner off
Barbados in 1976, the bombing spree against Cuban tourist facilities
in 1997 and his plans to attempt against the life of our Commander in
Chief in Panama in 2000, for which he was even convicted in that
country.

The US government has all the evidence of the crimes committed by
Posada, many of which were presented in court at El Paso.

We are still to see if the US government is capable of either filing a
new claim against Posada Carriles on a charge of terrorism or
accepting his extradition to Venezuela, as was requested more than
five years ago by that country, taking into account its legal
obligation derived from the international covenants it is party to and
the UN Security Council Resolution 1373 of 2001, which was promoted by
the US government itself.

As paradoxical as it may seem, while Posada Carriles is being
acquitted, five Cuban anti-terrorists remain unjustly imprisoned in
the United States for collecting information about the actions
perpetrated by terrorist of Cuban origin who, like Posada Carriles,
are walking free and with impunity down the streets of Miami.

Cuba reaffirms that the US government is the chief responsible for
this outcome and challenges it to take on its obligations in the
struggle against terrorism, without hypocrisy or double standards.

Havana, April 9, 2011.

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