by TAMARA PEARSON
Mérida, May 17th 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela will continue demanding that the United States extradite Luis Posada Carriles, wanted for terrorism, after he was found “not guilty” in a trial in the U.S. on other charges, since his current legal status means there is “no argument” as to why he can’t be extradited.
Referring to Posada Carrilles during open debate time at the United Nation’s (UN) Security Council meeting, Jorge Valero,Venezuela’s representative to the UN, said that the U.S. is preventing the judgment of “this notorious international terrorist who walks freely in the streets of Miami, Florida.”
Early last month Carriles was declared not guilty of migratory crimes in a trial held in a Texas court. Posada Carriles is wanted by the Venezuelan justice system for his responsibility in the blowing up of a Cubana de Aviacion airplane in 1976; causing the death of 73 people.
At the time of the Texas trial the Venezuelan government put out a statement calling the trial a “farce” and suggesting the U.S.government was “protecting” Carriles. The Venezuelan government argued that the U.S. Department of Justice had “done nothing to allow the initiation of the extradition process requested byVenezuela…The U.S. government protection of Posada Carriles has become an emblematic case of U.S. double standards in the international fight against terrorism.”
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