May 15, 2007
Reprinted from Granma Internacional

ON the first day of the Youth Accuses Posada and the U.S. Government political trial in the Anti-imperialist Court evidence aplenty and indignation were apparent, the AIN reports.

Expert witnesses, investigators and relatives of the victims of the many acts of terrorism masterminded and even executed by Posada Carriles with the consent and backing of the U.S. authorities were called to testify before the prosecution in this public hearing in the José Antonio Echeverría Center in the Cuban capital.

Visibly moved, the courtroom heard Rosalba Alvarez García charge Comisario Basilio (as Posada was known when he worked for the DISIP, Venezuelan intelligence) with the murder of her father and other Venezuelan revolutionaries.

The first to speak was Dáger Aguilar, a Cuban law student who has made an in-depth study of the criminal and egocentric personality of this international terrorist and stated that his recent release in the United States without any charges pending represents a danger to Cubans and other peoples.

Manuel Hevía Frasquieri, director of the State Security Historical Investigations Center, and Andrés Záldivar Diéguez, chief researcher at this institution, focused their speeches on the lengthy history of White House subversive activities against Cuba, in many of which Posada has played a leading role.

Major Misael Fonte, an expert witness from the Central Criminalistic Laboratory, and First Lieutenant Yohán López, a senior instructor at the Ministry of the Interior Criminal Investigations Department, testified on Posada’s participation in the sabotage of the Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados.

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by Will Weissert
May 15, 2007
Reprinted from The Miami Herald

HAVANA -- Cuban university students symbolically tried Luis Posada Carriles in absentia Monday, accusing the anti-communist warrior of teaming with Washington to commit decades of terrorist attacks, many of which happened when they were just children.

A four-judge panel of University of Havana law students was scheduled to hear 32 witnesses over two days before issuing a sentence -- also symbolic -- against the 79-year-old former CIA operative. Posada, who was born in Cuba, has dedicated most of his life to toppling Fidel Castro's communist-run government.

The verdict was not in doubt. The trial was organized by the Communist Party's youth wing and other pro-government groups. There was no sign of anybody named to offer a defense.

No new evidence was expected, though Cuba hopes the trial will keep public pressure on the United States to act against Posada. He was released last week from house arrest after a federal judge in Texas dropped immigration charges against him, and he then went to South Florida.

Hundreds of college and high school students, many looking bored and squirming in their seats, filled a social club ringed by dilapidated tennis courts in the Cuban capital's Vedado district.

Witnesses included Cuban government investigators and students who studied the case here and in Venezuela.

The list of accusations included charges that Posada organized a Cuban jetliner bombing in 1976 as well as series of bombings at Havana hotels in the 1990s. He also was accused of directing Iran-contra arms operations run by Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North and overseeing a plot to assassinate Castro during a summit in Panama in 2000.

The U.S. government was named as a co-defendant, accused of providing financial and logistical support for decades of attacks, including the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961.

''I consider him a danger to humanity,'' said Dager Aguilar, a law student who testified against Posada based on evidence provided by the Cuban state.

Testimonios acusadores, en juicio
contra Posada y el imperio