Castro and Chavez oppose US exile request for accused bomber

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1976 BOMBING

Cuba, Venezuela call for exile now in U.S.
Miami Herald. April 13, 2005

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11378888.htm


"Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the vice president of Venezuela are demanding that an anti-Castro militant accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976 not be granted asylum in Miami.

Miami attorney Eduardo Soto, representing Luis Posada Carriles, has said the 77-year-old man is now in the United States and plans to petition for political asylum this week, saying he deserves the protection because he worked ''directly and indirectly'' for the CIA.

Soto plans to hold a news conference today to address questions about Posada's case.

In Havana, Castro called Posada a terrorist, said the U.S. government was harboring him and complained that the European Union is saying nothing about that even as it supports a U.S. campaign to win a condemnation of Cuba's human rights record at a Geneva meeting of the U.N.'s human rights branch."