In Cuba, relatives of victims of a Cuban militant living freely in the United States gathered Thursday to urge the United States to extradite him for trial. Cuban exile and anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles was acquitted last week on charges of lying under oath during an immigration hearing. Posada Carriles was accused of lying about his role in a series of bombings in Havana in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and wounded 12 others. Posada Carriles had formerly admitted on tape to his role in the hotel bombings but later recanted. Posada Carriles is also known as the suspected mastermind of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana airline jet that killed 73 people. A relative of one of those killed in the jetliner bombing called on the United States to extradite Posada Carriles to Venezuela to face charges.

Camilo Rojo: “We are demanding that the law be followed. We are demanding the application of Resolution 1373. We are demanding the 1971 Montreal Convention be respected. We are demanding that the extradition treaty between Venezuela and the United States be respected. But more than anything else, we are demanding that Posada Carriles be recognized as a terrorist.”