Venezuela threatens US with court over Cuban exile

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12713456.htm

CARACAS, Venezuela, June 12 (Reuters) - Venezuela will take the United States to an international court if it does not extradite a Cuban exile sought by Caracas for blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.

In a television broadcast, Chavez said U.S. authorities had no excuse not to grant the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and ex-CIA collaborator who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985.

Posada, 77, who was arrested in Miami last month, is due to appear before a U.S. judge in El Paso, Texas, on Monday to face charges he entered the United States illegally. snip

Chavez said if Washington did not send Posada to Venezuela for trial, "then we'll have to go to an international court and accuse the United States of violating democratic charters, human rights charters, United Nations and Organization of American States charters, all kinds of charters."

[robertpaulsen]

1. Go Chavez!

We'll see how the court hearing goes tomorrow.

I loved Michael Ruppert's comments on this situation:


Posada Carriles- a Venezuelan who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985, and who had long before sold out to the Gringos - will receive the justice of his own people.

Karl Rove must be choking. Old time Democrats like Maxine Waters and John Conyers are probably popping champagne corks. Free people who belong to neither party should also be celebrating.

One of the essential ingredients for the destruction of the US Empire is the destruction of the value of its brand name. There is surely not a single soul in all of Latin America, including Mexico, who does not see that a conviction of Posada in Venezuela would be a conviction of the United States in front of the world. Chavez can prove Posada's links to the CIA, Oliver North, William Casey, Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte, Otto Reich and George Herbert Walker Bush.

more...

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/052305_world_stories.shtml

[IChing]

2. I think the world court gives world press (propaganda reasons)

and a great place to show the shit what these neocons have done to central and south america, alot of time these are televised.