Friday, May 11, 2007
SWOP homepageRepresentative Miguel P. García Supports Extradition of Luis Posada Carriles
Hon. Miguel P. García
New Mexico House of Representatives District 14
Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 11, 2007
Luis Posada Carriles committed the worst crime of terrorism in 1976 by
masterminding a mid air bombing of a Cuban airliner killing seventy-three
innocent human beings. These victims were our brother and sisters in
Christ. They left behind a grieving spouse, sons and daughters, mothers
and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles, cousins, friends,
colleagues, and neighbors.
American citizens are freedom loving individuals that deplore the innocent
taking of a life by deranged individuals who have no respect for human
decency. It has come to my attention that the Bush administration has
created a precedent setting act of malfecense in government by objectively
giving Luis Posada Carriles card blance asylum in the United States, knowing
that Mr. Carriles illegally entered the United States in 2005.
Worst of all is the fact that the Bush administration fails to abide by
international extradition laws pertaining to the harboring of terrorists.
Venezuela is rightfully seeking extradition of Mr. Carriles to hold him
accountable for the horrific tragedy of the 1976 incident.
As American citizens, we have an obligation to uphold our constitutional
obligation in upholding the health, safety, and welfare of our communities.
The Bush administration, by refusing to extradite Mr. Carriles, and by
having his presence in our midst, gives us no choice but to side with our
constitution and seek the “citizens arrest” of Luis Posada Carriles.
Freedom loving people in New Mexico and the United States must engage in an
effort to apprehend Luis Posada Carriles and carry out a “citizens arrest”
of the individual. Mr. Carriles creates a serious breach of peace in our
presence with the potential for violent injury to our citizenship given his
terrorist background.
I am committed to do what I can in my capacity as a State Representative to
engage in a citizen to government relation with Venezuela to insure the
return of Luis Posada Carriles to that country for prosecution and
incarceration of his terrorist act. It does us no good to engage in a
“citizens arrest” of Mr. Carriles and turn him over to U.S. federal
officials only to see him go free again in order to see him return to his
mansion in Miami so he can continue watching the novelas on TV and drinking
his rum & coke.
New Mexico House of Representatives District 14
Albuquerque, New Mexico
May 11, 2007
Luis Posada Carriles committed the worst crime of terrorism in 1976 by
masterminding a mid air bombing of a Cuban airliner killing seventy-three
innocent human beings. These victims were our brother and sisters in
Christ. They left behind a grieving spouse, sons and daughters, mothers
and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, uncles, cousins, friends,
colleagues, and neighbors.
American citizens are freedom loving individuals that deplore the innocent
taking of a life by deranged individuals who have no respect for human
decency. It has come to my attention that the Bush administration has
created a precedent setting act of malfecense in government by objectively
giving Luis Posada Carriles card blance asylum in the United States, knowing
that Mr. Carriles illegally entered the United States in 2005.
Worst of all is the fact that the Bush administration fails to abide by
international extradition laws pertaining to the harboring of terrorists.
Venezuela is rightfully seeking extradition of Mr. Carriles to hold him
accountable for the horrific tragedy of the 1976 incident.
As American citizens, we have an obligation to uphold our constitutional
obligation in upholding the health, safety, and welfare of our communities.
The Bush administration, by refusing to extradite Mr. Carriles, and by
having his presence in our midst, gives us no choice but to side with our
constitution and seek the “citizens arrest” of Luis Posada Carriles.
Freedom loving people in New Mexico and the United States must engage in an
effort to apprehend Luis Posada Carriles and carry out a “citizens arrest”
of the individual. Mr. Carriles creates a serious breach of peace in our
presence with the potential for violent injury to our citizenship given his
terrorist background.
I am committed to do what I can in my capacity as a State Representative to
engage in a citizen to government relation with Venezuela to insure the
return of Luis Posada Carriles to that country for prosecution and
incarceration of his terrorist act. It does us no good to engage in a
“citizens arrest” of Mr. Carriles and turn him over to U.S. federal
officials only to see him go free again in order to see him return to his
mansion in Miami so he can continue watching the novelas on TV and drinking
his rum & coke.
Labels: Cuba, Immigration, luis posada carriles, Venezuela
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
SWOP homepageA Terrorist Set Free, Bush has blood on hands
Public demands Luis Posada Carriles be Tried or Extradited for Acts of Terrorism
Press Advisory
For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Contact: Albuquerque, Louis Head: 505-463-0439, Jo Ann Gutierrez Bejar – 505-247-8832
San Antonio, Che Lopez: 210-378-5132
PROTEST: Friday, May 11, 2007 @ 12 noon
Federal Court House
333 Lomas Blvd. NW (between 3rd & 4th)
The SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), Albuquerque, NM and Southwest Workers Union (SWU), San Antonio, TX will be demonstrating – in conjunction with similar demonstrations in El Paso, Washington, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Boston, Miami, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal – in front of the US Federal Court House to demand that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles either be tried for his crimes in the US or that he be extradited to Venezuela to stand trial there.
“The terrorist Luis Posada is considered by many to be the ‘Osama bin Laden of the Americas.’ To this we say “Immigrant Families Yes, Terrorists No!” exclaims Louis Head, board member of SWOP.
Posada a Cuban national and naturalized Venezuelan citizen was involved in the mid-air bombing of a commercial jetliner in 1976, bombings of Cuban hotels in the 1990s, and an attempt on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000. In 2005 Posada entered the US and spent two months free in Miami before US authorities finally arrested him on immigration violation charges. Posada, a long time US intelligence asset and CIA agent, was charged with illegally entering the US and of lying to immigration officials, not with crimes related to his history of terrorism. He is wanted in Venezuela on charges related to the 1976 plane bombing, which resulted in the deaths of 73 people including part of the Cuban national fencing team and several Guyanese students traveling to Cuba to attend medical school.
Despite an 84-year-old extradition agreement between the US and Venezuela, the Bush Administration refuses to return Posada, who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in the 1980s.
On Tuesday, May 8, 2007 a federal judge in El Paso dropped all immigration charges against Posada, stating that the Justice Department had improperly dealt with his case. He now walks free in Miami.
“The US government is engaged in criminalizing millions of undocumented workers and their families, yet lets a terrorist like Luis Posada roam freely. The United States judicial system needs to try Luis Posada for committing terrorist crimes against humanity, or send him back to Venezuela where he is a wanted man!” states Che Lopez, Co-Director of the Southwest Workers Union in San Antonio, TX.
“According to international law, according to antiterrorism agreements, when there is an attack on a civil plane, the country that has a suspect in its custody and is asked for him to be extradited to another place so that he can be investigated and tried, that country that has him has only two options: to extradite him or, without exception, to try him itself. Posada is not a suspect. Posada was being tried, formally accused over twenty years ago by another Venezuelan government, by other Venezuelan courts that have been demanding him ever since then.” – Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban Parliament.
Press Advisory
For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Contact: Albuquerque, Louis Head: 505-463-0439, Jo Ann Gutierrez Bejar – 505-247-8832
San Antonio, Che Lopez: 210-378-5132
PROTEST: Friday, May 11, 2007 @ 12 noon
Federal Court House
333 Lomas Blvd. NW (between 3rd & 4th)
The SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP), Albuquerque, NM and Southwest Workers Union (SWU), San Antonio, TX will be demonstrating – in conjunction with similar demonstrations in El Paso, Washington, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Boston, Miami, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal – in front of the US Federal Court House to demand that terrorist Luis Posada Carriles either be tried for his crimes in the US or that he be extradited to Venezuela to stand trial there.
“The terrorist Luis Posada is considered by many to be the ‘Osama bin Laden of the Americas.’ To this we say “Immigrant Families Yes, Terrorists No!” exclaims Louis Head, board member of SWOP.
Posada a Cuban national and naturalized Venezuelan citizen was involved in the mid-air bombing of a commercial jetliner in 1976, bombings of Cuban hotels in the 1990s, and an attempt on the life of Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000. In 2005 Posada entered the US and spent two months free in Miami before US authorities finally arrested him on immigration violation charges. Posada, a long time US intelligence asset and CIA agent, was charged with illegally entering the US and of lying to immigration officials, not with crimes related to his history of terrorism. He is wanted in Venezuela on charges related to the 1976 plane bombing, which resulted in the deaths of 73 people including part of the Cuban national fencing team and several Guyanese students traveling to Cuba to attend medical school.
Despite an 84-year-old extradition agreement between the US and Venezuela, the Bush Administration refuses to return Posada, who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in the 1980s.
On Tuesday, May 8, 2007 a federal judge in El Paso dropped all immigration charges against Posada, stating that the Justice Department had improperly dealt with his case. He now walks free in Miami.
“The US government is engaged in criminalizing millions of undocumented workers and their families, yet lets a terrorist like Luis Posada roam freely. The United States judicial system needs to try Luis Posada for committing terrorist crimes against humanity, or send him back to Venezuela where he is a wanted man!” states Che Lopez, Co-Director of the Southwest Workers Union in San Antonio, TX.
“According to international law, according to antiterrorism agreements, when there is an attack on a civil plane, the country that has a suspect in its custody and is asked for him to be extradited to another place so that he can be investigated and tried, that country that has him has only two options: to extradite him or, without exception, to try him itself. Posada is not a suspect. Posada was being tried, formally accused over twenty years ago by another Venezuelan government, by other Venezuelan courts that have been demanding him ever since then.” – Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban Parliament.
Labels: Cuba, Immigration, luis posada carriles, patriot act, Venezuela
Luis Posada is a free man
Bush said it himself - if you harbor a terrorist, you are a terrorist.
With the terrorist free, his impunity is confirmed
Granma (Havana)
May 9, 2007
Judge dismisses immigration fraud charges against Posada Carriles
MIAMI, May 8. - The United States government has taken off its mask
completely. Luis Posada Carriles is free. There will no longer be a trial
for the terrorist on May 11, and his presaged impunity has now been sealed.
On Tuesday, May 8, Federal Judge Kathleen Cardone of El Paso, Texas, threw
out the criminal's indictment for lying to immigration authorities, and he
immediately stated to a Miami radio station: "I'm free," the AFP reported.
According to some sources, the extradition application presented by
Venezuela in 2005 is still pending, as is the possibility that a New Jersey
jury may try him for his participation in terrorist attacks on hotels in
Havana in 1997.
But that is all old news. The decision to free Posada was made a long time
ago by the White House. Prosecutors never charged him for what he is: a
terrorist, and legal devices were used to cover up the judicial farce.
William Delahunt, a Democratic representative from Massachusetts, criticized
the impunity, and called for a Congressional hearing to discuss the U.S.
government's stance on this case. Delahunt said that both Republican and
Democratic legislators agree that the terrorist should not go free, given
his long criminal record, including the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban
passenger plane with 73 people on board.
A letter sent by Delahunt to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demands an
explanation from the Justice Department about why the Patriot Act was not
used to prevent the freeing of a notorious international murderer, and
specifies that the freeing of Posada calls into question "our commitment to
fighting terrorism."
For the U.S. administration, however, trying Posada Carriles as a terrorist
would be like trying itself.
Labels: Cuba, Immigration, luis posada carriles, patriot act
