Venezuela threatens US with court over Cuban exile

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Venezuela will take the United States to an international court if it does not extradite a Cuban exile sought by Caracas for blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.

In a television broadcast, Chavez said U.S. authorities had no excuse not to grant the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and ex-CIA collaborator who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985.

Posada, 77, who was arrested in Miami last month, is due to appear before a U.S. judge in El Paso, Texas, on Monday to face charges he entered the United States illegally.

...Chavez said if Washington did not send Posada to Venezuela for trial, "then we'll have to go to an international court and accuse the United States of violating democratic charters, human rights charters, United Nations and Organization of American States charters, all kinds of charters."


http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12713456.htm

[democrat_patriot]

1. Are we going to bomb Venezuela now?

They have oil don't they? Hope it's televised.

[Moderator]

2. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1543680