Solution to Luis Posada Carriles
 case delayed

A US immigration court today decided to continue remanding Luis Posada Carriles, the notorious terrorist, while it studies his case and the District Attorney’s Office application to expel him from the country.

Immigration Judge William Lee Abbott postponed the bond hearing until June 24, and the hearing of his case is now on August 29.

Posada’s lawyer moved to ask for political asylum for his client and the transfer of the legal proceedings to Miami. According to the Houston Chronicle, the judge also stated that he would pronounce on the application for a change of venue, without setting a specific date.

Meanwhile demonstrations took place in more than a dozen US cities demanding the extradition to Venezuela of the Cuban-born terrorist.

Hundreds responded this Monday to the call by the Coalition against War and Racism (ANSWER), to hold public demonstrations in cities and towns in the United States and Canada.

These were planned for Miami, Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Rochester, Chicago, Charlotte, Hackensack, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Vancouver in Canada.

The slogans were "Extradite Posada Carriles to Venezuela," "No asylum for this mass killer," "Stop the 45-year war on Cuba."

The terrorist is a notorious CIA agent who escaped with the aid of that agency from a jail in Venezuela, where he was granted citizenship, while awaiting the continuation of the trial for the sabotage of a Cuban passenger plane in full flight in October 1976 with 73 people on board.

According to Gloria la Riva, one of the protest organizers, the demonstrators carried photos of the 73 victims of Cuban Flight Number 455.