Posted on Monday, 01.24.11
Miami exile takes stand in Posada-Carriles trial
Gilberto Abascal is a star witness for prosecution
By RJUAN O. TAMAYO
[email protected]EL PASO, Texas -- The trial of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles Monday began hearing testimony from a Miami exile who the prosecution is presenting as one of its star witnesses, and the defense has attacked as a collaborator with Cuban intelligence.
Gilberto Abascal, is expected to testify that he was part of an operation that smuggled Posada from Mexico to Miami in 2005 aboard the vessel Santrina, a converted shrimper owned by Cuban exiles in Florida.
Posada is on trial on 11 charges of lying under oath to U.S. immigration officials about three events: how he sneaked into the United States; his role in nine bombings that hit Cuban tourism spots in 1997; and whether he ever held a Guatemalan passport.
A CIA-trained explosives expert who has hatched dozens of plots against the Cuban government, Posada told the immigration officials that he was smuggled by land from Mexico to Brownsville, Texas in 2005.
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