The Cuban and Venezuelan governments have repeated their calls for the extradition of former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles to stand trial for his role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Posada was scheduled to go on trial in Texas on Friday for immigration fraud, but a U.S. federal judge tossed out the indictment making Posada a free man. On Wednesday, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque accused the Bush administration of interference.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque: “Posada Carriles being free is not an accident. Posada Carriles is free because there is a plan by the White House, authorized by Bush, to prevent Posada from going to jail.”

Meanwhile, family members of the victims of the airline attack spoke out in Havana.

Odalis Perez, whose father co-piloted the downed plane: “Above all else, we feel a deep indignation, because knowing that one more time the United States government has left Luis Posada Carriles free on the streets with impunity, for us, it is a deep indignation.”