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Monday, October 3, 2005
Cuba and Venezuela have criticized Washington following a judge's decision not to deport a Cuban exile accused of planning the bombing of a flight from Caracas nearly thirty years ago.
Venezuelan vice-president Jose Vicente Rangel called the ruling sinister and described it as an attack itself. Seventy people, including 11 Guyanese were killed when the plane went down off Barbados in 1976.
Cuba accused the US of protecting what it called an infamous terrorist. The judge ruled that the exiled, Luis Posada Carriles, could be tortured if he is sent to Venezuela.
The Venezuelan government says it will continue to seek the extradition of Posada Carriles, who once worked for the CIA.
The case has contributed to the deteriorating relationship between Washington and left-wing Venezuela.
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