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Monday, January 1, 2001
Volume:
17
Issue:
1
16
Abstract:
Cuba and Venezuela have requested the extradition of four men arrested on November 17, 2000 in Panama for an anti-Castro plot.
On November 18, 2000, the Cuban Government formally asked Panama to extradite Luis Posada Carriles to Cuba, where he faces a death sentence after his conviction in absentia for the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. The Cuban extradition request accuses Posada Carriles of 16 specific terrorist acts, including the 1976 airliner bombing. Meanwhile, Venezuelan officials announced they would make a formal request for Posada Carriles on November 20 on the basis that Posada Carriles escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 while he awaited a third trial on charges of bombing the airliner. He had been acquitted twice for the offense at the time of his escape…[more]