NOTHING was done to prevent the monster’s release. An attempt has been made to give a legal cover-up to the terrible decision that the White House made beforehand to release Luis Posada Carriles.

According to footage broadcast on Cuban television’s "Roundtable" news program on the evening of Thursday, April 19, Posada Carriles arrived by plane in the city of Miami shortly before 5 p.m.

"All of Venezuela is lifting their voices, outraged by the protection that the imperialist U.S. government continues to give to the father of all terrorists of all times on the American continent," affirmed Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in a statement also broadcast on the "Roundtable."

Chávez said that the Bush government’s "mask is falling off" with this shameful case, which reveals its double standards in its so-called war on terrorism, and "we demand the extradition of that terrorist and murderer to Venezuela," he said.

At the same time, it was announced that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, along with condemning Posada’s release, also called for his extradition to that country. "The judicial power of the United States is being corrupted in order to facilitate the release of a terrorist," Ortega said.

It was also reported that Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, urging the judicial authorities to begin the process of extraditing Posada to Venezuela. If Posada is released from prison, U.S. "moral credibility" in the world will be compromised, because it would be "inconsistent" with the U.S. war on terrorism, he says in the letter.

And in the United States, the ANSWER coalition against war and racism condemned the release of the international terrorist and called for demonstrations throughout the world on May 11.

The condemnation of Posada Carriles’ release was issued in a press release that was also signed by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.

Translated by Granma International

(Granma) 22-04-2007