By Prensa Latina
Washington : The CODEPINK organization continues Saturday in Miami its campaign for the imprisonment of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is walking freely in that city despite his criminal records.
“We hope the Miami police protect our constitutional right to stage a rally in this community,” said Medea Benjamin, founder and co-director of the organization, who early January had to suspend a
similar campaign because of the Cuban-American extreme right’s hostility in the city.
CODEPINK will demand the Bush government include Posada Carriles on the list of the most wanted terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The organization will also request the extradition of the criminal to Venezuela, whose justice calls him for the explosion in mid air of a Cubana de Aviacion plane in 1976 that killed 73 passengers.
The request is part of the “Most Wanted” campaign started January 14 in Miami, but violently interrupted by members of terrorist organizations whose venue is in that city.
The campaign also includes the screening Sunday of the documentary “Posada Carriles: Terrorism in USA,” by Venezuelan filmmaker Angel Palacios, under the auspices of multi-state Telesur channel.
CODEPINK is made up of some 150,000 people, organized in over 250 groups from United States and other countries.
Posada Carriles was freed on April 19, 2007, after Judge Katherine Cardone granted his release on $250,000 bail.
Among his infamous actions are involvement in the Bay of Pig invasion to Cuba, a series of bomb attacks to Havana hotels in 1997, and even, according to some plotting theories, the murder of President John F. Kennedy.