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Luis Posada Carriles
Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, cold-bloodedly murdered 73 innocent people aboard a Cubana de Aviación passenger airplane over the waters of Barbados.
Posada planned the crime from Venezuelan territory, he was arrested in Venezuela, and later escaped from jail to evade a trial against him. He currently he resides in the United States with as a free man, despite overwhelming evidence of his terrorist activities, and despite an extradition request made by Venezuela.
This section contains all the articles, news, editorials and opinions of different authorities and attorneys specializing in this case.
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The Expert’s Ignorance and the 71 Objections From the Prosecution
Counterpunch
April 11, 2011
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
The attorney for one of the convicted killers of Chilean diplomat, Orlando Letelier, testified today in El Paso on behalf of Luis Posada Carriles.
José Dionisio Suárez Esquivel was convicted for conspiring to…
The Witness From María Elvira, Live!
Counterpunch
April 6, 2011
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
The María Elvira, Live! show came to El Paso this week. Luis Posada Carriles’ defense attorney turned the federal trial into a television talk show. The defense called Roberto Hernández del Llano as…
The Sound and Fury of Otto Reich
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
April 5, 2011
The defendant’s name was barely mentioned in court in today. Instead, Judge Kathleen Cardone allowed the defense attorney to put the New York Times, its journalist Ann Louise Bardach and the Republic of…
El Paso Diary: Day 38 of the Posada Carriles Trial / The Sound and Fury of Otto Reich
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
April 5, 2011
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The defendant’s name was barely mentioned in court in today. Instead, Judge Kathleen Cardone allowed the defense attorney to put the New York Times, its journalist Ann…
El Paso Diary: Day 37 of the Posada Carriles Trial /Swinging Doors
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
April 4, 2011
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A pair of swinging doors separates the well of the court from the seating area for the press and invited guests. They swing four or five times every…
El Paso Diary: Day 36 of the Posada Carriles Trial Posada Tango
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
March 31, 2011
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It’s one thing for an attorney to zealously defend his client’s interests and quite another for him to embrace the defendant’s premises. An attorney is most effective,…
El Paso Diary: Day 35 of the Posada Carriles Trial Bardach in Wonderland
Counterpunch
March 30, 2011
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By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
Winter said its goodbyes to El Paso last night. Spring is here. But the equinox doesn’t bring flowers to El Paso: only dust, lots of dust. Forty-mile-an-hour…
El Paso Diary: Day 34 of the Posada Carriles Trial The Cross-Examination of Ann Louise Bardach
Counterpunch
March 29, 2011
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
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The lawyer representing Luis Posada Carriles has a reputation for aggressive and effective cross-examination. Today his job was to question one of the case’s star witnesses: Ann…
Counterpunch
March 28, 2011
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
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Using the testimony of the journalist Ann Louise Bardach, the Government was able to introduce the Solo fax as evidence against Luis Posada Carriles. In the fax,…
Prosecution rests much-watched perjury case against ex-CIA agent after 11 weeks, 23 witness
The Washington Post
By Associated Press, Thursday, March 24, 7:17 PM
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. government rested its much-watched perjury case against a former CIA agent from Cuba on Thursday after an 11-week parade…
Ann Louise Bardach Takes the Stand
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
March 24, 2011
Today the jury in El Paso heard Luis Posada Carriles take responsibility for the bombings in Havana in 1997. He did so in a tape recording made in June of 1998 by New York…
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
March 21, 2011
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Today the prosecution suffered a profound setback. Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled that a key document that links Luis Posada Carriles to the financing of a series of…
Lawyer in Perjury Case Tries to Discredit Reporter
The New York Times
By James C. McKinley Jr.
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EL PASO — A defense lawyer tried to discredit a former contract writer for The New York Times in the perjury trial of a…
Castro Enemy Said to Have Recounted Role in Attacks
The New York Times
By DAN FROSCH
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EL PASO — A journalist called as a key prosecution witness in the perjury trial of an elderly anti-Castro militant testified on Wednesday that the defendant had…
El Paso Diary: Day 29 of the Posada Carriles Trial María Elvira, the Afternoon Diva
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
March 17, 2011
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Although the Justice Department called María Elvira Salazar to the witness stand, she testified in favor of Posada Carriles.
Government prosecutors wanted Salazar to corroborate Posada Carriles’…
El Paso Diary: Day 28 of the Posada Carriles Trial Fabio’s Friend
Counterpunch
March 16, 2011
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
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Although the Government only indicted Posada Carriles for lying, one of the lies is about a murder. Under oath, he denied being behind the killing in Havana…
Foreign Policy
Caught between prosecutors and the defense in the trial of famed anti-Castro militant, Luis Posada Carriles, a storied reporter — now, the Justice Department’s “star witness” — feels the pinch.
BY ANN LOUISE BARDACH | MARCH 15, 2011
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Times reporter to testify in trial of ex-CIA agent
AP
1 hour ago
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A New York Times reporter who interviewed a shadowy ex-CIA operative about masterminding bombings that rocked hotels, nightclubs and an iconic eatery in Cuba in…
El Paso Diary: Day 26 of the Posada Carriles Trial FBI Evidence and “Cuba’s Reasons”
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
March 15, 2011
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An FBI agent today corroborated in El Paso’s federal court that Cuba has been the target of terrorism financed from the United States. The agent revealed details about…
El Paso Diary: Day 25 of the Posada Carriles Trial- Follow the Money
Counterpunch
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
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Oscar de Rojas, a Cuban-American accountant from New Jersey, testified in federal court today that he wired money to ex-CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles and others in El Salvador and Guatemala…
