Cuban militant Posada loses an evidence fight in court

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Monday, 03.07.11
Cuban militant Posada loses an evidence fight in court

A top Guatemalan official testified Monday that a Guatemalan passport bearing Luis Posada Carriles’s picture is genuine – a victory for the prosecution in the exile militant’s perjury trial.

By Alfonso Chardy

EL PASO, Texas -- — Luis Posada Carriles lost a key battle in court Monday when the federal judge presiding over the case admitted into evidence a Guatemalan passport bearing the Cuban exile militant’s photograph.

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone admitted the passport after the Guatemalan immigration director testified that the passport was genuine, even though it may have been issued to a person carrying a fake Guatemalan national identification card.

Admission of the document could help the prosecution persuade the jury that Posada lied to U.S. immigration officials when he claimed he never possessed a Guatemalan passport in someone else’s name. The name on the passport is Manuel Enrique Castillo Lopez, but the picture on the document is Posada.

At least three charges in the 11-count indictment accuse Posada of denying to immigration officials that he had a passport in the name of Manuel Enrique Castillo Lopez.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/07/2102561/cuban-militant-posada-loses-an.html

[Warren Stupidity]

1. 'militant'? He blew a passenger airplane up.

Oh and he was a CIA agent. I love how goofballs plotting to walk to chicago and blow up a building with no actual explosives are 'terrorists' while a vile fuck who actually blew up a passenger airplane is a 'militant'.

[Nihil]

2. And yet some people just don't see it.

Murderer? Yep.

Terrorist? Yep.

CIA agent? Yep.

"Militant"? :wtf:

[EFerrari]

4. It's The Miami Hurled, par.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Shadowy Networks of Repression And Violence

Shadowy Networks of Repression And Violence
By Annie Bird,
March 8, 2011

From the Aguan region, in northern Honduras, to Santa Cruz in Bolivia, mercenaries and paramilitaries violently undermine democracy.

On January 10, 2011, a land rights activist, part of the Honduran Resistance movement, spent his first day in hiding, after being detained and tortured in Honduras. The same day, lawyers from the Union Civica Democratica (UCD) of Honduras traveled to Washington to meet with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States to discuss the case of Alejandro Pena Esculsa, an opponent of the Venezuelan government accused of possessing bomb making materials in Caracas. And, in Texas, the trial began of former CIA agent, Luis Posada Carriles, a CIA trained bomber, charged with immigration fraud.

Why were Honduran coup-supporting lawyers advocating for a Venezuelan accused of making bombs in Venezuela, and what does this have to do with a kidnapping and torture in Honduras or an immigration fraud trial of a former CIA agent?

Though unrelated in most senses, these events illustrate the international interests at play in the Honduran coup, and bring to light some of the actors, though much remains in the shadows.

*MULTI LANGUAGE TORTURE IN HONDURAS*
On January 8, 2011, Juan Chinchilla, a Honduran land rights activist, was kidnapped and tortured. Able to escape the evening of January 9 while being moved from his illegal detention center, Chinchilla reported that participants in his torture spoke English and another language he was not able to identify.

More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1103/S00077/shadowy-networks-of-repression-and-violence.htm