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Venezuela promises not to
extradite anti-Castro man to
Cuba
The Venezuelan government
promised Wednesday not to
extradite to Cuba anti-Castro
figure Luis Posada Carriles,
accused of a terrorist attack,
if the United States decides to
send him to Venezuela.
Vice President Jose Vicente
Rangel said that if Posada is
extradited to Venezuela, he will
be judged and sentenced in the
country's territory, and not be
sent to a third nation.
Venezuela has an independent
position with respect to this
case. If Posada is sent to
Venezuela, based on an agreement
signed between the South
American country and the United
States in 1922, there is no
possibility of sending him to
Cuba, he stressed.
Rangel made the statement after
learning that Posada was
arrested Tuesday in the United
States and that he is in the
hands of the Immigration and
Customs Office of the Security
Department.
Posada escaped from a Venezuelan
jail in 1985 when he was on
trial for the explosion of a
Cubana de Aviacion airliner
flying over Barbados in 1976,
covering the Caracas-Havana
route, with several athletes of
the island on board.
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