In Cuba, relatives of victims of an airline bombing have spoken out about a U.S. court ruling that could see the attack’s main suspect freed on bail. Former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles is wanted in Cuba and Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Posada has been detained in New Mexico not on terrorism charges, but for naturalization fraud and making false statements. The Bush administration has refused to extradite him.
Ileana Alfonso, a relative of a bombing victim who died in the 1976 attack: “We are not driven by a feeling of vengeance. We are just demanding the end to the impunity that has surrounded the Barbados crime for over 30 years. It’s unacceptable that bail be given to the man who does not regret anything of what he’s done and who challenges the entire world by saying that if he were born again, he would again fill innocent families with mourning.”