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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Cuba and Venezuela criticized the United States on Wednesday for failing to hand over or prosecute an alleged terrorist accused of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976. The United States insisted it is acting legally.
The case of Luis Posada Carriles — a Cuban-born Venezuelan citizen who has been a Venezuelan security officer, a soldier in the U.S. Army and a CIA operative — was raised during a U.N. Security Council meeting on U.N. efforts to combat terrorism.
Cuban Ambassador Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz called the 80-year-old Posada, a militant opponent of Fidel Castro's communist regime, "the most notorious terrorist of the Western hemisphere."
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