Evo Morales backs call to try Posada for his crimes

BY Pedro de la Hoz—Granma daily staff writer—

BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales added his signature yesterday to the call demanding that the United States try Luis Posada Carriles in a criminal court, already signed by more than 3,800 public figures from 80 countries.

The signature of Morales, who four years ago took part in the launch of the In Defense of Humanity network of networks, was accompanied by that of Deputy Gustavo Torrico, parliamentary leader of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS).

In the last few hours, eminent Mexican artists and intellectuals – actress Carmen Madrid, who starred in Nicotina; filmmaker Jorge Fons, winner of the Ariel Prize for Rojo amanecer and El callejón de los Milagros; philosopher Gabriel Vargas Lozano; priest Miguel Concha; and Enrique González Ruiz, a judge in the Benito Juárez International Court – have also recorded their condemnation of the hypocrisy of U.S. authorities in their much-proclaimed crusade against terrorism, made evident by protecting the criminal recruited by the CIA.

Russian astronauts Vitali Sevasrianov and Svetlana Savitskaia and a dozen members of that country’s Parliament have likewise demanded that Posada should be tried for his crimes or extradited to Venezuela.