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</font><font size=4><b>Posada Carriles: Chronology of a Murderer<br><br>
</b></font><font size=3> <b>February 15th, 1928:</b> Luis Posada
Carriles is born in the Cuban city of Cienfuegos.<br><br>
<b>1954: </b>He moves to Havana and meets some politicians allied to
dictator Fulgencio Batista.<br><br>
<b>1955:</b> He becomes a secret collaborator of the Batista’s police.
<br><br>
<b>1957: </b>He contacts the Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI).<br><br>
<b>1959:</b> He gets involved with counterrevolutionary groups which
carry out sabotages in the island.<br><br>
<b>1960: </b>He asks for asylum in the Argentina embassy alleging to be
politically chased.<br><br>
<b>February 25th, 1961:</b> He travels to Miami with a safe-conduct,
where the CIA orders him to contact the counterrevolutionary
organizations which are getting ready for Playa Giron
invasion.<br><br>
<b>March-April, 1961:</b> He goes to Guatemala to train the mercenaries
for infiltration and sabotages in Cuba's Bay of Pigs territory. He
doesn’t participate in the invasion because his ship doesn't land in due
time before the defeat of the mercenary troops. <br><br>
<b>1961-1962:</b> In the United States he contacts the terrorist
organization Movimiento Nacionalista Cubano (MNC). <br><br>
<b>1964-1965:</b> He gets involved in activities against the Cuban
Revolution in the United States, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
<br><br>
<b>May, 1965: </b>The FBI informs that Posada Carriles was connected to a
conspiracy to overthrow the Guatemalan government.<br><br>
<b>June, 1965:</b> A CIA declassified memo connects Posada with Jorge Mas
Canosa in Veracruz, Mexico when trying to blow up a Soviet ship.<br><br>
<b>October, 1967:</b> The CIA transfers Posada Carriles to Venezuela
where he joins the Direction of the Intelligence and Prevention Services
(DISIP). Using the pseudonym “Comisario Basilio” (Commissar
Basilio) he takes part in repressive activities against Venezuelan and
Latin American progressive groups. <br><br>
<b>1967-1976: </b>He simultaneously works for the CIA in the secret
services of Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile and
Argentina.<br><br>
<b>1971:</b> He organizes an assassination attempt against
Commander in Chief Fidel Castro during a tour of the Cuban leader to
Chile, Peru and Ecuador.<br><br>
<b>January 21st, 1974:</b> He is connected with explosive devices placed
in the Cuban embassies in Argentina, Peru and Mexico. <br><br>
<b>July, 1974:</b> He sends bombs in letters and books to several Cuban
consulates in Latin America. <br><br>
<b>November 7th, 1974:</b> He places bombs in the Institute of Brazilian
Studies and in the Bolivia Embassy in Ecuador.<br><br>
<b>June, 1975:</b> He opens in Caracas, Venezuela, the Enterprise for
Commercial and Industrial Investigations CA (ICICA) in order to hide his
terrorist activities in the region.<br><br>
<b>1976:</b> He joins Orlando Bosch to found the anti-Cuban terrorist
organization Committee of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU).
<br><br>
<b>April 22nd, 1976:</b> He is connected with the detonation of a bomb in
the Cuban embassy in Portugal, where two Cuban diplomats are
killed.<br><br>
<b>July 1st, 1976:</b> He places a bomb in the Costa Rica-Cuba Cultural
Center in Costa Rica.<br><br>
<b>July 9th, 1976:</b> He is responsible for a bomb placed in the luggage
of Cubana de Aviacion airline in Jamaica. <br><br>
<b>July 10th, 1976: </b>He is connected to a bomb placed in the offices
of Cubana de Aviacion airline in Barbados.<br><br>
<b>July 11th, 1976:</b> He is linked to a bomb placed in the offices of
Air Panama airline in Colombia. <br><br>
<b>October 4th, 1976:</b> The CORU (Coordinator for Integrated
Revolutionary Organizations) declares to have placed a bomb in a
television channel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in which the Cuban film “The
New School” was being shown. <br><br>
<b>October 6th, 1976:</b> Posada Carriles is identified as the principal
planner and mastermind, together with Orlando Bosch, of the sabotage to a
Cuban airplane while flying off the coasts of Barbados in which 73 people
were killed. Both criminals are arrested in Caracas and are
prosecuted together with Hernan Ricardo and Freddy Lugo, who were the one
who carried out the sabotage.<br><br>
<b>1976-1985:</b> He is kept in prison in Venezuela waiting for the
verdict of a too long judicial process. <br><br>
<b>August 18th, 1985:</b> He escapes from prison and after staying 15
days in Caracas he is transferred to Aruba in a shrimper. Once in
that country he takes a private flight to Costa Rica and then to El
Salvador. All the operations are financed by the National Cuban-American
Foundation (FNCA) and indirectly by the US Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA). In Ilopango’s air base he joins the group responsible for the
supplies to the counterrevolutionaries in Nicaragua. He gets involved
with the arms traffic controlled from Washington by Oliver North, advisor
for internal security of the then US President Ronald Reagan. <br><br>
<b>October, 1986: </b>When the burst of the Iran-Contras scandal, he
joins a group of Venezuelan instructors engaged in training the
Salvadorian police on counter-guerrilla and interrogatory
techniques.<br><br>
<b>1988: </b>He travels to Guatemala to work as security advisor for the
Guatemalan Telephone Enterprise (GUATEL)<br><br>
<b>1992: </b>The National Cuban-American Foundation (FNCA) organizes a
“military section” in charge of preparing and executing terrorist
activities against Cuba and its main leaders in which Luis Posada
Carriles, together with Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll have an active
participation. <br><br>
<b>1993:</b> The FNCA terrorist group adopts another name: Cuban National
Front. <br><br>
<b>1994:</b> Posada Carriles organizes an unsuccessful attempt against
Cuban President Fidel Castro in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, when the
leader was touring the historic center of the city together with the
Literature Nobel Prizewinner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. <br><br>
<b>1994-1997:</b> He recruits mercenaries from Central American countries
to carry out terrorist attacks in Cuba, specially in the tourism sector.
<br><br>
<b>July 12th-13th, 1998:</b> In an interview with the New York Times
daily, he declares to have been backed by FNCA for the bomb attacks in
Cuban resorts. <br><br>
<b>November 5th, 2000:</b> Posada Carriles arrives in Panama with a
Salvadorian passport issued to Franco Rodriguez Mena (one of his alias)
to organize a bomb sabotage in the meeting hall of the Panamanian
University where Fidel Castro was supposed to deliver a speech. <br><br>
<b>November 17th, 2000:</b> Fidel Castro denounces an assassination plan
against himself in an Ibero-American summit in Panama. Panamanian
officials discover explosive material and arrest Posada together with
Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Pedro Remon and Guillermo Novo Sampoll.
<br><br>
<b>April 20th, 2004: </b>The saboteurs are punished with 4 to 8 year
imprisonment. <br><br>
<b>August 26th, 2004:</b> The then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso
exempts the four terrorists from imprisonment. They secretly leave “El
Renacer” prison and are taken to Albrook airport from where they fly to
Tocumen airport. Once there, a private jet takes them to
Honduras. Posada stays in that country while the other three
terrorists go to Miami.<br><br>
<b>March, 2005:</b> Posada goes to the United States and lawyers say he
is looking for asylum. <br><br>
<b>April 11th, 2005: </b>In the first of a series of special TV
presentations, Cuban President Fidel Castro denounces the complicity of
the US government with terrorism when saying that Posada Carriles would
possibly be admitted in that country. News received more than ten
days ago informed that the terrorist is in Miami where arrangements are
made to grant him asylum. <br><br>
<b>April 17th, 2005: </b>Fidel warns about the possibility of Posada
being disappeared in the United States. He asks them not to kill him now,
not to poison him, he asks them not to say that he died due to a heart
attack or a brain damage, he says we are ready to send doctors to care
for his health, so he can tells all he knows and can be
prosecuted.<br><br>
<b>May 1st, 2005:</b> Fidel addresses over one million Cubans at the
Revolution Square in Havana during the 1st of May celebrations and gives
more evidences on Posada Carriles presence in Miami and the evident
refusal of the White House to do something despite so many evidences on
the case. <br><br>
<b>May 4th, 2005: </b>Venezuelan Chancellor Ali Rodriguez asks the United
States to obey the already signed agreements and extradite Luis Posada
Carriles for trial in Caracas. <br><br>
<b>May 10th:</b> The New York Times publishes an editorial in which it is
affirmed that on behalf of credibility, consistency and justice, the US
government must arrest and extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.
<br><br>
<b>May 11th: </b>The Cuban president refers to a report by the Federal
Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in which it is said that terrorists Luis
Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch are involved in the assassination of
the Chilean ex-Chancellor Orlando Letelier and his North American
secretary in 1976. <br><br>
<b>May 12th: </b>During his special TV presentation, Fidel accuses the US
government for hiding information taking into consideration that one day
after the blowing up of a Cuban airliner off the Barbados coasts, the FBI
and the CIA knew about the material and intellectual authors of the
criminal sabotage, according to a document red by the mandatary.
<br><br>
<b>May 13th:</b> Venezuela officially asks the United States to extradite
Posada Carriles. In a press conference held in Washington, relatives of
victims of terrorism, academics, lawyers and leaders of social and
religious organizations in the United States demand the government to
arrest Posada Carriles and extradite him to Venezuela. <br><br>
<b>May 15th, 2005: </b>The New Herald publishes the article “The war that
Posada Carriles could not win to Fidel Castro” in which it is affirmed
that the terrorist has been defeated. <br><br>
<b>May 17th, 2005: </b>Over a million residents from Havana participate
in a Combatant March in front of the US Section of Interests to demand
justice and to end terrorism. It is a march in favor of life and peace,
in favor of our people and the brother people of the United States, says
Fidel before the beginning of the historic protest. Posada Carriles is
arrested by federal agents and taken to South Florida where he is kept in
a detention center for people with migratory problems. The Internal
Security Department says the prisoner’s situation would be analyzed and
the next step to follow would be informed within 48 hours. The criminal
had already offered a press conference in which he confirmed his request
for political asylum to the Bush administration. But later on, his lawyer
Eduardo Soto informed that Posada Carriles had decided to withdraw the
petition and leave the North American territory.<br><br>
<b>May 18th: </b>Fidel calls on the progressive forces of the world to
demand the US to send Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela so he can be
prosecuted there. <br><br>
</font><font size=2>Sources: Juventud Rebelde newspaper, PL and AP news
agencies, Cubadebate.<br><br>
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