Apr 23, 2007 2:49 pm US/Eastern
Cubans In Havana Protest Posada Carriles' Freedom
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Cubans held posters with pictures of the victims who died in the plane explosion in 1976.
CNN
Cubans in Havana protested the release of Luis Posada Carriles from a Texas jail on bond, some holding the pictures of loved ones who died aboard a Cuban jetliner in a 1976 explosion.
The group is upset because an appeals court allowed the release of Posada Carriles on bond to be reunited with his wife in Miami as he awaits trial on charges of lying to immigration officials. Many marched down the streets holding posters with the faces of loved ones who died in the bombing.
Posada Carriles is suspected in Cuba of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 victims. He has never gone to trial on the charges. The Castro regime has also denounced him as already being guilty of the crime, and they have posted billboards with pictures of him calling for justice.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country will lodge a protest in the United Nations over the anti-Castro militant's release from a US jail.
Chavez also charges that Posada has been plotting to assassinate him for years, and accused President George Bush of complicity in failing to bring Posada to justice.
Posada escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 and was detained in Florida in May 2005 for entering the United States illegally. He was indicted on charges of lying to US immigration authorities, but an appeals court last week ruled he could post bail and return to his family in Miami while awaiting trial.
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