U.S. aware of the responsibility of Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch for the sabotage of the Cubana passenger plane
BY JOAQUIN ORAMAS
Foto: ALBERTO BORREGO
IN what has become a historical trial of imperialism, in yesterday’s TV and national radio address, President Fidel Castro demonstrated the complicity of US governments in the acts of terrorism committed by Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, the culmination of which was
the sabotage of a Cubana Aviation plane in full flight out of Barbados.
The former is already in US
territory requesting asylum while the latter is at liberty on the streets of Miami.
Fidel spoke of the various acts of terrorism committed by those CIA-created counterrevolutionary elements and warned that the battle initiated with the current exposure is ongoing. He then gave the floor to Ricardo
Alarcón, Cuban ambassador to the UN at the time of the Barbados sabotage, with diplomatic functions in Trinidad and Tobago, and who participated in the investigations that confirmed the guilt of Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch in that criminal act, which cost the lives of the 73 passengers and the crew
of that Cuban civil airliner.
Fidel affirmed that while the government of the United States has an active policy on combating terrorism, earlier ones have not waged such a war, adding that terrorism was virtually created there in order to combat the Cuban Revolution. The school of terrorism for the
world was the United States and its acts of aggression against Cuba. "It was that country which invented the hijacking of aircraft and our country that definitively brought it to an end, when we sent two hijackers in a hijacked aircraft there. And then it was obliged to punish subsequent hijackers," he
stated.
He noted that with its underestimations and lies the United States tried to bribe the passengers of the last hijacked aircraft to remain in that country. "Let us see now, in the face of world opinion, whether it is capable of waging this battle to the end by acting as it should act," he added.
Alarcón gave a detailed account of the investigations undertaken by the Barbadian and Trinidad and Tobago authorities, which demonstrated that the two Venezuelans who were directly responsible for the sabotage were CIA agents. Both confessed that their chiefs were Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch. He referred
to the international commission that acted on the investigations, noted the visits made by the two Venezuelans to the US embassy in Barbados, and the evidence that demonstrated that the explosion of the plane was the result of sabotage. He quoted the trial held in Caracas, where a legalistic interpretation of
the translation was used to exonerate Bosch, while Posada was sent to prison, from which he was helped to escape via bribery. Alarcón explained how he was then transferred to Ilopango so that the CIA could incorporate him into illegal international activities like the dirty war on the Sandinistas in Nicaragua
and those that culminated in the Iran-Contra scandal.
