Venezuela Wants Terrorist out of US

Caracas
Venezuela ratified this Monday its deportation demand from the US of Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, mastermind of the mid-air explosion of a Cubana airplane with 73 passengers in 1976.

Venezuelan ambassador to Washington Bernardo Alvarez stated that during a meeting with US Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon on February, he ratified in writing his country"s extradition request.

In a TV program "En Confianza de Venezuela de Television," Alvarez said this case could not only be discussed as a migratory issue.

"There can not be terrorism "a la carte," he said, "Posada Carriles is Latin America"s Osama Bin Laden," and recalled that two former Venezuelan lieutenants from the National Guard are currently living in United States.

Alvarez stated that the northern country also denied asylum for those former soldiers, but they have not been deported as Venezuela requests, in agreement with bilateral accords signed that also include the Posada Carriles case.