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Monday, October 9, 2006
Following a recent decision by US governments not to release anti Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles to authorities in Cuba or Venezuela, four Nobel laureates have petitioned the US government to put Carriles on trial for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jet which killed 73 people including the entire Cuban fencing team.
"All the guilty must pay for their crimes they said, and the United States has the opportunity to show the world it is coherent in its battle against terrorism." The text which urged US officials to try Posada Carriles was signed by Nobel Peace Prize winners Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel litterature laureates Nadine Gordimer and Jose Saramago, and US intellectual Noam Chomsky and French university professor Salim Lamrani. Meanwhile, the US Justice Department said in its most recent filing on the issue that Posada Carriles, 78, should look harder for a country that will receive him. According to accounts, Posada identified an extraordinary range of foreign high profile contacts who would possibly be able to help him avoid extradition to Venezuela or Cuba where he is wanted on charges of terrorism. The US decision not to release Carilles came on the eve of the Cuban airline bombing's 30th anniversary.
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