>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 01:21:51 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Castro Pursues Salvador's Guest Terrorist > >Castro Pursues Salvador's Guest Terrorist > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Another Andrew Cawthorne special, liberally sprinkled as usual with >his puerile snide quotation marks. What else can one expect from this >"journalist" ??? There's hardly any doubt in this galaxy that Luis >Posada is indeed a terrorist whoring for the ultimate state terrorist >on the planet, the "democratic" government of the USA. -- NY Transfer. > > >Tuesday November 21 10:34 PM ET (via yahoo) > >Cuba Hits El Salvador Over Anti-Castro 'Terrorist' > >By Andrew Cawthorne > >HAVANA (Reuters) - President Fidel Castro's government heaped condemnation >on the government of El Salvador on Tuesday for allegedly sheltering a >notorious `terrorist'' intent on ending communism in Cuba. > >In a case sending diplomatic waves across Latin America, 72-year-old Cuban >exile Luis Posada Carriles was arrested at the weekend in Panama after >Castro alleged that Posada was planning to assassinate him at the >Ibero-American Summit there. > >Havana is preparing a request for extradition in a bid to try Posada on the >Caribbean island and has launched a propaganda offensive in which it accuses >El Salvador of ignoring warnings about the exile's activities. > >Statements issued late on Tuesday on state television said that both El >Salvadoran President Francisco Flores and his predecessor, Armando Calderon >Sol, had ignored Cuban intelligence reports linking Posada to a Central >American terrorism network. > >Particularly sarcastic rhetoric was heaped on Flores, who clashed openly >with Castro at last weekend's regional summit in Panama City in a charged >exchange of words that astounded and embarrassed the other heads of state >present. > >`The 'innocent' president of El Salvador, elected with funds of the >Salvadoran oligarchy for the ARENA party, the very symbol of bloody >repression, massacres and pitiless exploitation, knew very well of Posada's >presence and terrorist activities in El Salvador,'' one statement said on >Tuesday. > >Party Ties To Death Squads > >Flores, 41, leads El Salvador's ruling National Republican Alliance (ARENA), >which was linked to right-wing death squads during the nation's civil war, >and beat a former left-wing guerrilla to win the presidency. > >At the Panama summit, Flores responded to a comment from Castro over Posada >by accusing the veteran communist leader of having `bloody and unacceptable >responsibility'' for El Salvador's 12-year civil war, which killed around >75,000 people. Castro backed left-wing guerrillas there. > >Havana said on Tuesday that El Salvador's last two governments had protected >Posada and his allies in recent years. ''In alliance with the terrorists and >in servile attitude to the (U.S.) empire and the anti-Cuban mafia, they >guaranteed impunity for their atrocities,'' another statement said. > >Cuba accuses Posada, in collusion with the CIA and the Miami-based >anti-communist Cuban-American National Foundation, of masterminding decades >of violence, including 1997 bombs on the island and the 1976 blowing up of a >Cuban plane that killed 73 people aboard it. > >Posada has admitted to the 1997 bombs in a media interview and was once >jailed in Venezuela in connection with the 1976 explosion. But the >foundation vigorously denies sponsoring violence against Cuba, and it mocked >Castro's assassination claim in Panama as senile ravings from the >74-year-old president. > >Panamanian authorities kept quiet on Tuesday on the fate of Posada and three >other Cuban exiles detained with him. > >Aim Called Simple Protest > >The men's CANF-hired lawyer, Daniel Henderson, said that the detainees >merely went to Panama to protest against Castro's presence at the summit and >that even if Posada entered with a false passport, `that is not a very >worrying crime because the document was not issued in Panama.'' > >Venezuela, where Posada escaped from prison years ago, reportedly dressed as >a priest, indicated that it too might request the exile's extradition from >Panama. `He is a fugitive from Venezuelan justice,'' Venezuelan President >Hugo Chavez said on Monday. > >Flores, for his part, said his government `is completely open'' to >collaborating with Panama, Venezuela and Cuba. > >But any good will left between the countries is likely to evaporate after >the strength of Cuba's rhetoric on Tuesday. > >During the exchange with Castro at the summit, Flores, ''dressed as a little >lamb, tried to present himself as an outraged vestal virgin,'' Havana's main >statement on Tuesday said. > >Cuba also condemned the `fainthearted'' leaders of the region for backing a >`hypocritical'' resolution at the summit to condemn violence in Spain by the >Basque ETA separatist group. > >Castro was the only one of the leaders from Latin America, Portugal, and >Spain who refused to sign the motion, arguing that it should have been a >wider condemnation of terrorism, given that Cuba was a victim of U.S. >aggression. > >There was even a swipe on Tuesday at Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman. >Havana said it had circulated information on Posada around Central America >but had not included Aleman, since that would have been `the same as sending >it to the CANF, which financed his electoral campaign and counts him as a >faithful ally.'' > >================================================================= > 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-11.22.00-01:21:11-7233 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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