Venezuelans Protest at US Embassy Demanding Turn Over of Cuban for Bombing

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBE96II39E.html

<snip>The protesters arrived Monday on motorcycles and cars, waving Venezuelan flags, blowing whistles and chanting that Luis Posada Carriles should be extradited and tried in Venezuela.

"Posada, terrorist!" shouted the demonstrators, most wearing the red T-shirts and caps of President Hugo Chavez's party. "The people, united, will never be defeated!"

The protest came a day after Chavez said Venezuela might break diplomatic ties with Washington if the United States doesn't extradite Posada, an ex-CIA operative and militant opponent of Fidel Castro.

Venezuela wants to try the 77-year-old Posada on charges of murder and treason for the 1976 bombing, which tore apart a Cubana Airlines plane after it took off from Barbados, killing 73 people. Posada, a naturalized Venezuelan, is accused of plotting the attack in Caracas.

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1. Whats the matter with them, we don't harbor terroist, dammit.

They better straighten up or we'll bomb the crap out of `em.

Now how much oil ya got?......

[chlamor]

2. Venezuela could cut diplomatic ties

Wouldn't that be fancy to see Hugo kick the CIA-I mean the diplomats at the US embassy- out of Venezuela.



Venezuela Could Cut Diplomatic Ties if US Violates Extradition Treaty

Monday, May 23, 2005
By: Sarah Wagner—Venezuelanalysis.com

Caracas, Venezuela, May 24, 2005—If Washington refuses to extradite Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Venezuela could severe diplomatic ties between the two nations, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez yesterday.  “We can't rush things, but if the United States does not extradite we will be forced to reconsider our diplomatic ties,” affirmed Chávez during his weekly Sunday television address Aló Presidente.

Last week Caracas invoked a 1922 US-Venezuela extradition treaty to request that the US deport Posada—who has dual Cuban-Venezuelan citizenship—to Venezuela to stand trial for masterminding the 1976 bombing of a civilian Cuban airliner that killed all 73 people on board.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shows the audience documented evidence of Posada's terrorist activities and of the CIA's knowledge during last Sunday's "Alo Presidente."
Credit: VTV

Although Posada, a former CIA agent, illegally entered the US through the Mexican border in mid-March, US officials repeatedly denied that they were able to verify his whereabouts.  But Posada, a self-described “freedom fighter,” forced Washington's hand last week by holding a press conference outside Miami.  Shortly after Posada affirmed that he would "not denounce violence," he was arrested by US immigration officials.  Facing charges of illegal entry rather than terrorism, Posada is being detained in a federal detention center in El Paso, Texas without bail until his June 13th trial.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1630

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3. Why does the AP refer to Posada as a Cuban? He is Venezuelan citizen!

Posada committed his acts of terrorism on Venezuelan soil. Venezuela has the right to get him extradited for trial.