Protests in El Salvador to demand Posada’s extradition to Venezuela

GROUPS of demonstrators belonging to the "People’s Social Bloc" and members of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) rallied outside the US Embassy in El Salvador to protest against the possible extradition to this country of Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, accused of participating in the sabotage of a passenger plane.

Representing the FMLN at the rally were Medardo González, Shafick Handall and Nidia Díaz, who marched together with another group of people from the well-known Basilica of Guadalupe in Old Cuscatlán, Libertad province, to nearby the US Embassy.

Nidia Díaz, FMLN deputy in the Central American Parliament, affirmed that they were taking a letter to the embassy addressed to US President George W. Bush to request that Posada Carriles not be extradited to El Salvador, but rather to Venezuela, where he should be registered as a citizen of that country and where the government is seeking to put him on trial.

For his part, Deputy Schafik Handal said that the crimes that Posada Carriles is accused of in Venezuela are more severe than those indicated in El Salvador, which is why if he is extradited to this country, there is a greater probability that he will be set free.