The court that tries Posada should
also try Bosch

PRESIDENT Fidel Castro announced that the march of the Cuban people against terrorism set for next Tuesday will demand that Luis Posada Carriles be brought to trial, as well as his accomplice, Orlando Bosch.

"The court that tries Posada should also try Bosch," Fidel affirmed during a nationally broadcast special presentation to leaders from every sector in Cuba.

Before his speech, a compilation of excerpts from Miami television station interviews of Bosch was shown, in which this individual vehemently defended the sabotage of a Cuban passenger plane over Barbados in October of 1976.

Bosch advocated acts of terrorism against Cuba and its people as part of his strategy against the country and its Revolution.

Fidel noted that during that time, Bosch was leading the so-called Coordinating Committee of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), which had been commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to wage war on the Cuban Revolution.

Both Bosch and Posada Carriles were jailed in Venezuela for the so-called Barbados crime, but the latter escaped from the San Juan de los Morros prison in 1985.

Bosch, for his part, was freed in 1988 thanks to the efforts of Otto Reich, at that time US ambassador in Venezuela, and from then on the terrorist has been based in the United States.

Fidel Castro recalled that despite his criminal history and the fact that he entered the United States illegally, Bosch was authorized by former President George Bush (Senior) to reside in that country, ignoring the fact that in 1974 he had violated the conditions of his parole for a previous crime.

"The pardon that they granted him there cannot be accepted, and we must demand that they charge him as well," the Cuban president said.

"After 30 years (since the Barbados crime), Bosch is still there, and is still planning terrorist attacks against Cuba," he affirmed.

Fidel stated that successive US administrations have supported the organizations of Cuban-born terrorists based in the United States, and asserted that the actions of these gangs also have been directed at other Latin American countries.

He commented that the connections between Posada Carriles, Bosch and his buddies and those that direct the CIA and occupy the White House should be looked into, after events like the Iran-Contra scandal, the assassination of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and the sabotage of the Cuban plane over Barbados.