Fidel Castro Accuses Bush of Lying
Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Thursday that the US people will never forgive their rulers for their lies and deceit about Cuban-born terrorists who operate in that country.

In a new call for Washington to take actions against Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and other terrorists historically based on US soil, the Cuban president accused the White House of covering up the truth behind these sinister characters.

Based on de-classified documents in the United States, Fidel Castro proved that its rulers know perfectly well who Posada Carriles, Bosch, Guillermo Novo Sampoll and other criminals are, and unveiled their links with US institutions involved in the covert war against Cuba.

He recalled that 29 years after the assassination of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and the sabotage of a Cuban airliner that killed all 73 people on board, Washington continues to provide support and refuge to these people, even though it knows they are responsible for such actions.

Within that context, Fidel Castro reminded of last year, when former US State Secretary Colin Powel traveled to Panama to intercede on behalf of Posada Carriles, Novo Sampoll and two other terrorists.

The malignant quartet was serving time in that country for plotting to assassinate President Fidel Castro during a public event at the 10th Ibero-American Summit in November 2000.

Fidel Castro said that after ex-Panamian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned the four terrorists, three of them traveled immediately to Miami, where they were welcomed as heroes amidst full complicity with US authorities.

Regarding Posada Carriles, he repeated that his entry into the country nearly two months ago on board the ship Santrina, without being detected by US security systems, is unbelievable. All this time and Washington has not made a statement in this regard.

"Who is going to believe that the government does not know how and why Posada Carriles entered US territory, or where he is at present?" he wondered.

"I think that US public will never forgive the government for how much it has lied," said Fidel Castro.

The Cuban president said that it is time to arrest Posada Carriles and deport him to Venezuela, from where he escaped in 1985 while he was serving time for exploding a the Cuban airliner in 1976.

On Wednesday, the Cuban president announced a massive march in Havana next Tuesday to demand justice in the cases of Posada Carriles and his accomplices, and called for an end to US support of terrorists who operate against Cuba.

The march is not against the United States, it is against terrorism, insisted the Cuban president, whose televised appearances have unveiled the links between US authorities and organizations of Cuban origin bent on destabilizing Cuba.