Topic: Luis Posada Carriles

US jury acquits Cuban-born ex-CIA agent

A US jury found an elderly Cuban-born former CIA agent, wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for several deadly bombings, not guilty on charges of perjury and immigration fraud.Judge Kathleen Cardone read the verdict after the jury deliberated for three hours after ...
A Cuban-born former CIA operative who was involved in numerous plots against Fidel Castro lied to US authorities in his bid to obtain asylum, a prosecutor said at a perjury trial Wednesday.In opening arguments, the prosecutor said that Luis Posada Carriles ...

Anti-Castro militant goes on trial in Texas

A former CIA operative sought by Cuba and Venezuela for bombings of tourist hotels and the downing of a Cuban airliner went on trial here Monday on charges of fraud and perjury.Luis Posada Carriles, 82, is accused of lying to US ...

Fidel Castro foe finally going on trial in US

0 . Fidel Castro's nemesis has filled the walls of his Miami-area condo with his canvases: Revolutionaries on horseback charging Spanish soldiers; ...

Salvadoran sentenced to 30 years for Cuba bombings

HAVANA (Reuters) - A Salvadoran man has been convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Cuban court for his part in 1990s hotel bombings in Cuba organized by anti-Castro groups, state-run media said on Wednesday.The court in Havana found ...
Cuba Supreme Court reviewing Salvadoran man's death sentence for '97 hotel bomb plotCuba's Supreme Court has begun reviewing the death sentence of a Salvadoran man convicted of terrorism for a series of hotel bombs in 1997.Government website Cubadebate said ...
Cuban state TV airs purported confession by Salvadoran charged in 1990s Havana bomb attacksState television on Monday broadcast a recently extradited El Salvador man confessing to a role in a 1990s bombing spree against Cuba's tourist hotels, attacks that Havana has ...

Bombing suspect arrives in Cuba to face charges

HAVANA (Reuters) - A Salvadorean man arrested in Venezuela last week was flown to Cuba on Wednesday to face charges that he carried out bombings of Cuban hotels in 1997.Cuban television showed a disheveled, manacled Francisco Chavez Abarca emerging from a plane ...

Venezuela to send terrorism suspect to Cuba-Chavez

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will hand over to Cuba a Salvadorean man wanted for allegedly carrying out bombings of Cuban tourist hotels in 1997, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.Francisco Chavez Abarca was arrested by Venezuelan authorities last Thursday when he ...

Venezuela says suspect plotted election violence

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela on Saturday accused a Salvadorean arrested while trying to enter the country this week of plotting attacks to disrupt legislative elections due to be held on September 26.Venezuelan authorities said Francisco Chavez Abarca was detained on Thursday at ...