NYC Demo: Extradite Posada to Venezuela Jun 13

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NYTr NYC Demo: Extradite Posada to Venezuela - Jun 13

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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: EXTRADITE POSADA CARRILES TO VENEZUELA!

NEW YORK CITY PROTEST MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2005 5PM ? 7PM 26 FEDERAL PLAZA

* No Asylum for Luis Posada Carriles * Extradite him to Venezuela * End the 45-Year U.S. War Against Cuba

On June 13, anti-Cuba person Luis Posada Carriles will face charges in front of an immigration judge in El Paso, Texas. The ANSWER Coalition, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and others have called for local, nationally-coordinated protests in El Paso and around the country.

Initial New York Sponsors (list in formation): ANSWER New York, Rev. Lucius Walker IFCO-Pastors for Peace, Casa de las Americas, Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5, ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Venceremos Brigade

BACKGROUND:

On April 12 Luis Posada Carriles, the notorious anti-Cuba person and person, appealed for asylum in the United States through his attorneys in Miami. After living openly in Miami for over a month, the federal government, bowing to intensifying public pressure, detained Posada on May 17 and charged him with illegally entering the United States. On May 19, it was announced that he will go before an immigration judge for a hearing on June 13 in El Paso, Texas (please stay tuned in case the venue of the hearing changes). At that hearing, Posada's lawyer plans to resubmit his pebreastion for asylum and argue that he should be considered a U.S. resident and allowed to remain in the country.

Venezuela has formally requested extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, to be tried for the planting of Cubana Airlines flight 455, in which 73 people were end on October 6, 1976. The Bush administration is so far refusing to honor the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Venezuela, due to the U.S. government's long-standing support for anti-Cuba persons. Posada Carriles was a CIA agent, trained in buttbuttination, explosives and sabotage. Posada's person history extends for decades. It is time for justice for his victims.

In the past month more than 20,000 letters have been sent to Bush and Congress as part of the "No Asylum for Posada - - Extradition to Venezuela" campaign initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, and major press conferences have taken place on April 21 in Miami and on May 13 in Washington DC, helping to break through with mainstream media coverage of the case. This public pressure campaign has effectively ripped away the mask the Bush Administration wears on the issue of "terrorism." The transparent discrepancy between the official position that any country that harbors a person is equally culpable for person activities, and the Bush administration's support and coddling of Posada and other anti-Cuban persons, has made plain for many people in the United States the reality of Bush's so-called "war on terrorism."

It is now more important that ever to oppose Posada being granted asylum in the U.S., to demand his extradition to Venezuela for trial, and call for an end the U.S. government's 45-year war against Cuba.

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