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Posada Carriles said to be in Honduras
EVERYTHING
would seem to indicate that terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles has taken refuge in Honduras, his
traditional lair along with El Salvador.
However,
although the national authorities have confirmed
that he is being sought, there are no details on his
presence and far less on his detention, as was
announced ion the Cuban Television Roundtable
program.
Meanwhile
the United States is keeping quiet on the pardon
signed by President Mireyas Moscoso, who released
the notorious killer and three of his accomplices
serving a prison term for an attempt to assassinate
President Fidel Castro during an event at the
University of Panama in 2000.
It was
stated on the program that Ricardo Maduro, the
Honduran president, was forced to acknowledge that
Posada had entered the country and that he is a
terrorist “who has the support of powerful people
with international influence.”
Statements
condemning the shameful pardon signed by the
Panamanian president have continued.
The
Panamanian people never imagined that one of their
governors would bend to U.S. directives to such a
degree, affirmed Panamanian lawyer Julio Berrios,
repudiating the pardon allowing the release of the
four anti-Cuban terrorists.
Speaking on
the Roundtable program, Berrios, a professor of Law
at the University of Panama, referred to a statement
left by Moscoso on the answer-phone of a former
ambassador to her country and quoted on U.S.
television, in which she says:
“Ambassador,
good morning, this is the president to inform you
that the four Cubans were pardoned last night and
have already left the country. Three are headed for
Miami and the other to an unknown destination. Good
bye, and all the best.”
The
president has acknowledged that she made that call.
Other
Panamanian figures likewise condemned the pardon of
the four terrorists of Cuban origin. Former
president Jorge Illueca described it as a blow to
Latin American integration. This act, he added,
affects the deepest sentiments of Pan-Americanism
which, in addition to the rupture of diplomatic
relations with Cuba, has already prompted the
withdrawal of the Venezuelan ambassador and Hugo
Chávez’ absence from the investiture of the incoming
president.
Gassán
Salama, the former governor of the province of
Colón, who resigned in protest over the pardon,
qualified it as a world disgrace, an act that
demonstrated Moscoso’s lack of interest in combating
terrorism.
On the other
hand, a statement signed by some 40 legislators from
various tendencies comprising the Central American
Parliament (PARLACEN), rejected Moscoso’s decision
and calls on ”the peoples of the civilized world to
condemn this decision in favor of those terrorists
who are endangering stability and peace.”
In Bogotá,
more than 100 participants in the Voices of the
World Congress for Peace rejected the humiliating
decision of the Panamanian leader, which exposes a
high degree of opportunism and hypocrisy to gratify
Washington’s anti-Cuba policy.
The Mexican
Communist Party affirms that by releasing the four
terrorists, Moscoso has become an accomplice of
those who in 1976 placed the bomb aboard the Cubana
passenger plane that cost the lives of 73 people,
and those who made an attempt on the life of
President Fidel Castro in particular at the
Ibero-American Summit.
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