Youth put Posada and the U.S. government on trial

ON the first day of the Youth Accuses Posada and the U.S. Government political trial in the Anti-imperialist Court evidence aplenty and indignation were apparent, the AIN reports.

Expert witnesses, investigators and relatives of the victims of the many acts of terrorism masterminded and even executed by Posada Carriles with the consent and backing of the U.S. authorities were called to testify before the prosecution in this public hearing in the José Antonio Echeverría Center in the Cuban capital.

Visibly moved, the courtroom heard Rosalba Alvarez García charge Comisario Basilio (as Posada was known when he worked for the DISIP, Venezuelan intelligence) with the murder of her father and other Venezuelan revolutionaries.

The first to speak was Dáger Aguilar, a Cuban law student who has made an in-depth study of the criminal and egocentric personality of this international terrorist and stated that his recent release in the United States without any charges pending represents a danger to Cubans and other peoples.

Manuel Hevía Frasquieri, director of the State Security Historical Investigations Center, and Andrés Záldivar Diéguez, chief researcher at this institution, focused their speeches on the lengthy history of White House subversive activities against Cuba, in many of which Posada has played a leading role.

Major Misael Fonte, an expert witness from the Central Criminalistic Laboratory, and First Lieutenant Yohán López, a senior instructor at the Ministry of the Interior Criminal Investigations Department, testified on Posada’s participation in the sabotage of the Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados.

Translated by Granma International