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Terrorism Victims: Freedom for Cuban Five Oct. 4, 2008 Victims of terrorism in Cuba and Venezuela demanded the liberation of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters now confined in US prisons, known as the Cuban Five, and asked the US government for the extradition of criminal Luis Posada Carriles. In a meeting Friday in Caracas, terrorism victims and relatives of the Cuban Five considered that both cases are aspects coming from a same phenomenon. Irma Sehwerert, mother of Rene Gonzalez, one of the Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, stated that Posada Carriles´ crimes, such as the explosion of a Cuban civil plane in 1976, prove that Cuba needs to infiltrate terrorist groups. Rene, together with Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Ramon Labañino were arrested in US national territory, where they were compiling valuable information from extremist groups to stop terrorist actions against Cuba. Sehwerert said that one of the Cuban Five’s objectives was to monitor Posada´s activities. Brenda Esquivel, a Venezuelan citizen tortured by Posada Carriles when he was occupying a high position in the Venezuelan police, said that Posada was known as “Comisario Basilio” and he played with the life of Venezuelan children and adults, even women. Esquivel pointed out there will not be any step back on the claiming for his extradition, and accused the US government of being the world’s main terrorist, after giving Posada a shelter. Camilo Rojo, son of one of the crew members of the civil plane attacked in 1976, said that after 32 years of the commitment of the crime, assassins Orlando Bosch and Posada Carriles are still at large in the streets of Miami, Florida, US. Venezuelan deputy Horacio Pinto, a member of the Cuba-Venezuela Movement of Friendship and Solidarity, assured that Venezuela is still demanding Posada´s extradition, despite the negative of the US authorities. Pinto accused the US government of protecting Posada and reminded the complicity of the Venezuelan authorities at the time he escaped from a Venezuelan prison, with the help of the US Central Intelligence Agency. |
Cubanos y venezolanos llaman a redoblar lucha contra el terrorismo por Agnerys Rodríguez Gavilán
"No podemos —ni vamos— a descansar hasta lograr que se haga justicia. Posada Carriles y Orlando Bosch, los asesinos de nuestros seres queridos, se pasean con total impunidad por las calles de Miami", expresó Camilo Rojo, coordinador del Comité de Familiares de las Víctimas de la voladura del avión de Cubana en Barbados, al término de un encuentro contra el terrorismo, al que fueron especialmente invitados familiares de los Cinco y ciudadanos de esta hermana nación, cuyas vidas están marcadas por el odio del entonces Comisario Basilio (Posada Carriles). Irma Sehwerert, madre de René González, uno de los Cinco, recordó que una de las tareas encomendadas a Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando y a su hijo fue, precisamente, monitorear las actividades de los grupos terroristas en esa ciudad del sur de la Florida y, en especial, los planes de Carriles. Víctimas de Posada Carriles aquí presentarán nuevas pruebas, documentos, testimonios, ante la Fiscalía General de la República para acompañar la solicitud de extradición presentada por Venezuela ante la Justicia norteamericana, informó Horacio Pinto, miembro de la Dirección Nacional del Movimiento de Amistad y Solidaridad Mutua Venezuela-Cuba.
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CARACAS, Venezuela.— Los comités Nacional de Amistad y Solidaridad Mutua Venezuela-Cuba, de Familiares de las Víctimas de la voladura del avión de Cubana en Barbados y de Víctimas del terrorista Luis Posada Carriles en Venezuela, convocaron este viernes a todos los venezolanos, cubanos, y hombres y mujeres de bien en el mundo, a unirse mucho más en la lucha contra el terrorismo y los terroristas, a exigir que cese la injusticia contra los Cinco Héroes cubanos prisioneros en EE.UU. y a reclamar la extradición a este país del criminal Luis Posada Carriles.