Wednesday, 11 April 2007Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his third article in less than two weeks, on Tuesday decried the US release from jail of an anti-Castro militant wanted by Cuba and Venezuela for the deadly bombing of a Cuban jet.
A Texas judge allowed Luis Posada Carriles to walk free last Friday pending a hearing on US immigration fraud charges, a decision that Castro charged was taken under President George W. Bush's "instructions."
"It was President Bush himself who ignored at all times the criminal and terrorist side of the accused," Castro wrote in an article titled "Brutal Response."
"He was protected by simply being charged with an immigration violation," he wrote. "The response is brutal. The US government and its most representative institutions decided to release the monster early."
Posada was jailed in Venezuela for masterminding the October 6, 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines flight between Barbados and Cuba which killed all 73 on board. He later escaped and became involved with US CIA operations in Central America.
Havana has accused him of involvement in a series of bombings inside Cuba in 1997, and of plotting to assassinate Castro in 2000 when he was arrested with a large cache of explosives in Panama.
According to reports, in 2005 he snuck into the United States and requested political asylum, and has been held since then on illegal immigration charges, while Cuba and its ally Venezuela have called for his extradition.
Castro's article assailing Bush and the United States is his third in two weeks, and come as numerous associates and friends of his say the Cuban leader of 48 years is now recovering steadily and could soon return to his job.
Following gastrointestinal surgery last July, Castro, 80, handed over power temporarily to his brother Raul, and has since only rarely been heard from or seen in photos or news video.
The previous two articles attacked Bush's plan to promote throughout the region use of food crops to produce ethanol as a fuel alternative to oil.
Castro said such a plan if implemented to the extent envisioned by Washington would take food from the mouths of "billions" of poor people, which he said would amount to genocide.
11.04.2007
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007
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