среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

Venezuela to ask new US gov't to hand over Posada

Venezuela will renew its demand for the United States to extradite a former CIA operative accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane that killed all 73 people on board, a lawyer for the Venezuelan government said Friday.

Venezuela hopes President Barack Obama's administration will see the case of 80-year-old Luis Posada Carriles differently and turn him over to face trial in Venezuela, attorney Jose Pertierra said.

Officials in the administration of former President George W. Bush snubbed a Venezuelan extradition request, but prosecuted Posada on immigration fraud charges, which a federal judge dismissed in 2007.

An immigration judge …

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