CARACAS, Monday April 23, 2007 | Update
The Venezuelan government is getting ready to submit Wednesday
the case of anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles for
the consideration of the Organization of American States (OAS)
Permanent Council, OAS reported Monday.
Posada Carriles, 47, a former CIA agent, was released on
bail last Thursday after paying a bail accounting for USD
350,000. He will be restricted to his own house in Miami until
May 11th, the starting date of a trial for migration fraud
in El Paso, Texas.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said Sunday that the
government plans also to take the case to the United Nations
(UN).
The OAS agenda for the Wednesday session includes, among
others, the "Venezuela's statement in relation to anti-terrorist
efforts -Release of Luis Posada Carriles," said OAS in a press
release.
Posada Carriles, who had been detained in the United States
since May 2005 for migration issues, fled from a Venezuelan
prison in 1985. Washington has refused to extradite him by
arguing that Posada Carriles might be tortured.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."