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06-20-2005, 08:57 PM
The United States Is Interested in Keeping Posada Carriles’ Mouth Shut
http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/carriles/saramago190605.htm
By Daynet Rodr^guez Sotomayor
(Taken from cubasi.com)
Nobel Literature Prize Winner José Saramago said Friday in an exclusive to Cubas^ that the US government is going to use all possible means and methods to keep Posada Carriles silent.
“I don’t know whether the United States will extradite this mister to the government of Venezuela or will take him to the court. It would be the rightest thing, but I think it won’t do that”, said the Portuguese writer at the end of his lecture before young narrators, held at the “Onelio Jorge Cardoso” Literary Formation Center.
“Now everybody must insist on this to happen”, added the author of “Ensayo sobre la ceguera, y otros textos” (Blindness), who is on a visit to Cuba since last Tuesday.
In Saramago’s opinion, some have voiced the idea that this case has a relationship with Pinochet’s extradition to Chile; but, he clarifies, “it’s not the same, because UK had no personal problem with Pinochet (…), he was there and it sent him back”.
“In this case, U.S. is deeply interested in keeping Posada Carriles’ mouth shut. If this trial is held, he might tell what he knows about them, and that is not advisable”, the Nobel laureate explained.
“I think that government is going to use all possible means and methods to keep him in prison. So, it may happen some day that someone comes in and kills him as it happened with Kennedy’s alleged murderer”.
He added that in this world and with the United States in it, everything may occur.
Recently, the Nobel laureate headed a call by Portuguese intellectuals demanding law enforcement in the Posada case, who owns a bulky criminal record, including the full-flight bombing of a 1976 Cubana jetliner, which left 73 people dead, the wave of bombings against several hotels in Havana in 1997, and other terrorist acts in Central America and the world.
The statement, signed by over 40 professionals and social and political leaders also underlined the paradox that the US government repeatedly proclaims itself as champion of the worldwide anti-terrorist crusade, at the same time that it harbors criminals and allows terrorist acts against sovereign countries.
http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/carriles/saramago190605.htm
By Daynet Rodr^guez Sotomayor
(Taken from cubasi.com)
Nobel Literature Prize Winner José Saramago said Friday in an exclusive to Cubas^ that the US government is going to use all possible means and methods to keep Posada Carriles silent.
“I don’t know whether the United States will extradite this mister to the government of Venezuela or will take him to the court. It would be the rightest thing, but I think it won’t do that”, said the Portuguese writer at the end of his lecture before young narrators, held at the “Onelio Jorge Cardoso” Literary Formation Center.
“Now everybody must insist on this to happen”, added the author of “Ensayo sobre la ceguera, y otros textos” (Blindness), who is on a visit to Cuba since last Tuesday.
In Saramago’s opinion, some have voiced the idea that this case has a relationship with Pinochet’s extradition to Chile; but, he clarifies, “it’s not the same, because UK had no personal problem with Pinochet (…), he was there and it sent him back”.
“In this case, U.S. is deeply interested in keeping Posada Carriles’ mouth shut. If this trial is held, he might tell what he knows about them, and that is not advisable”, the Nobel laureate explained.
“I think that government is going to use all possible means and methods to keep him in prison. So, it may happen some day that someone comes in and kills him as it happened with Kennedy’s alleged murderer”.
He added that in this world and with the United States in it, everything may occur.
Recently, the Nobel laureate headed a call by Portuguese intellectuals demanding law enforcement in the Posada case, who owns a bulky criminal record, including the full-flight bombing of a 1976 Cubana jetliner, which left 73 people dead, the wave of bombings against several hotels in Havana in 1997, and other terrorist acts in Central America and the world.
The statement, signed by over 40 professionals and social and political leaders also underlined the paradox that the US government repeatedly proclaims itself as champion of the worldwide anti-terrorist crusade, at the same time that it harbors criminals and allows terrorist acts against sovereign countries.