>Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 04:10:26 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles Arrested in Panama > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Saturday November 18 12:04 AM ET (via yahoo) > >Panama Authorities Arrest Would-Be Castro Assassin > >By Isabel Garcia-Zarza > >PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panamanian police said late on Friday they had >arrested the presumed mastermind behind an alleged plot to assassinate >veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro. > >Police sources told Reuters they had arrested Luis Posada Carriles and three >of his Cuban-American colleagues at a hotel in central Panama City as a >`precautionary measure'' after Castro accused them of plotting to take his >life. > >Castro, in Panama for the opening of the Ibero-American summit on childhood, >said earlier on Friday that `terrorists'' armed by anti-communist Cuban >Americans were planning to assassinate him. > >`Terrorist elements organized, financed and led from the United States by >the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) ... have been sent to Panama >with the aim of eliminating me,'' he said. > >`They are now in this city (Panama City), and have brought in arms and >explosives,'' Castro, dressed in military fatigues, told reporters gathered >at a Panama City hotel. > >The Miami-based CANF, the most militantly anti-Castro of Florida's numerous >Cuban-American groups, dismissed the claims as the ravings of `an aged rock >star ... (who) needs to attract attention somehow.'' > >Castro singled-out Posada Carriles as the brains behind the alleged plot, >accusing him of having made other attempts `against Cuban interests'' and >always financed by the CANF. > >He said Carriles was `the most notorious terrorist in the area'' and was >trained by the CIA (news - web sites). Castro did not say how his team had >uncovered the assassination plan, but added that authorities in Panama had >been forewarned. > >As the Castro drama played out on Friday, heads of state from across the >region flew into Panama, with the exception of Nicaraguan president Arnoldo >Aleman, who attributed his absence to family illness, and Peru's Alberto >Fujimori (news - web sites), kept home by a two-month old political crisis. > >Fujimori's grip on power has been seriously weakened by a nine-week >corruption scandal involving his fugitive former spy chief, Vladimiro >Montesinos, caught on video apparently bribing an opposition lawmaker. > >Fujimori had been expected to play a central role at the annual summit, but >even in his absence fears of instability in Peru will surely come up in side >meetings at the event, if not in the main forum. > >Economic instability in Argentina, Colombia's seemingly endless war against >leftist rebels and cocaine producers, and fears of eroding democracy in >Venezuela, where Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has widened his powers, >are other potential topics of discussion. > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >nytcari-11.18.00-04:09:58-15876 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
