The Venezuelan Government is pondering the possibility to ask the Counter-Terrorism Committee, UN Security Council, to investigate the way the United States has dealt with the case of Cuban activist Luis Posada Carriles.

José Pertierra, a legal counsel for the Venezuelan Government who recently applied for Posada Carriles' extradition from the United States, in an interview with official TV channel VTV forcefully condemned the release of Posada Carriles.

"We are considering a number of actions to continue to fight and make terrorist Luis Posada Carriles pay for his crimes."

According to Pertierra, Posada Carriles' release runs counter to the obligations the US administration undertook under resolution 1373.

"Resolution 1373 is a document endorsed on September 28, 2001, following attacks on New York World Trade Center, establishing that all states shall refrain from providing help to any person involved in terror acts."

Pertierra claims that the US move questions Washington's trumpeted commitment to fight terror, as they have released an anti-Castro Cuban militant who has confessed to be the mastermind of an airplane bombing that killed 73 people in October 1976 over Barbados.

Jose Pertierra also said Venezuela plans to appeal to the Organization of American States and challenge US government actions in international courts.