Jose Pertierra, the attorney that represents the Venezuelan government in its request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, asserted that the US government has enough evidence to try him as an assassin, after terrorist Francisco Chavez Abarca’s statements were made public in a documentary broadcast by Cuban television.

Pertierra noted that Washington now has the obligation to prosecute Posada Carriles, not for being a liar, but for being an assassin, after Chávez Abarca declared that Carriles confessed to him to having shot down a Cuban aircraft in 1976 and that he recruited him to plant bombs on the island.

The attorney stressed that the evidence is found in the statements made by the Salvadorian terrorist, which point to Posada Carriles as the mastermind behind those crimes.

Pertierra highlighted that Posada Carriles recruited Chavez Abarca to try to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, to sink Venezuelan oil tankers en route to Havana, and to assassinate politicians in the South American nation.

These acts are crimes in Venezuela, pointed out Pertierra, adding that additional proceedings against terrorist Luis Posada Carriles could be instituted, with the purpose of strengthening the extradition request even more.

Translated by Silke Paez

!joomlacomment 4.0 Copyright (C) 2009 Compojoom.com . All rights reserved."