Thread: Luis Posada Carriles: Tribulations of a Hot Potato

Of course, they only come here to do work that no US citzen will do

I have a place this vermin might be sent to. It is an oak chair (slightly modified, not an off the shelf model), here in NE.

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http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/c ... 100505.htm

Luis Posada Carriles: Tribulations of a Hot Potato

A hot potato always runs the risk of getting mashed. That is the case of the notorious international terrorist, Luis Posada Carribles, who has become an unwelcome embarrassment for the United States.

After 9/11, the United States shifted its priority to internal security by reorganizing its national network and unifying all services under the new Homeland Security agency which has 180,000 employees on its payroll. It boasts 15 intelligence services, the latest equipment and a multi-billion dollar budget.

Part of the new super department's domain are migratory issues which were taken from Justice Department control, because since 9/11, the rights that foreigners in the United States might have are thought to be a matter of national security. 9/11 has become a frontier of time, since then what is primary in the United States is not justice but security.

These institutional changes have complicated the life of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, because the body that must decide his future was not created to make policy, but rather to provide security. The only possibility that Posada Carriles, whose criminal past is exhaustively documented by US police and security services, and a dozen countries, has to obtain shelter in the United States, is for the president to intervene and at the risk of making himself an accomplice of those crimes, personally assume the responsibility of extending protection to a known terrorist. If the president fails to intervene, the US administration will have to decide what to do with a hot potato. Where will they send him ? Who wants the criminal?

Usually when the authorities of a country decide to deport an undocumented immigrant, they send him back to his country of origin, as in the case of Mexicans and Haitians. But where is Luis Posada Carriles from? To what country does he belong? According to what his accomplices and lawyers have said, which has been corroborated by the investigative reporting of the Mexican newspaper Por Esto!, and by eyewitnesses, Posada entered the United States from Mexico.

Technically, that makes him deportable to Mexico, where he is certainly unwelcome. Posada is not Mexican nor does he reside there, and given that this time he entered and left that country clandestinely, there was no official entry. What's more, the United States certainly wouldn't exert such pressure on their closest and most unconditionally supportive neighbor. In addition, it is probably not a good moment to negotiate with Mexico's foreign minister, who is still smarting from Washington's recent withdrawal of support for his candidacy as Secretary General of the Organization of American States, in favor of his rival Chilean Insulza.

El Salvador is not a good place because the case has gained too much notoriety. The opposition and civil society is capable of mobilizing against him and lately the United States has asked San Salvador for too may favors, from using its territory and military installations at Ilopango as a base for its Iran-Contra operations, to sending a military continent to Iraq. What's more, it is not a good idea for a superpower to depend on such a tiny country with such disreputable authorities.

Honduras is out because recently Tegucigalpa did Washington the favor of taking Posada Carriles in after he was freed from prison in Panama by then president Mireya Moscoso.

Forget Cuba, because they don't want him. Though Luis Posada Carriles was born there and has committed countless horrendous crimes against the Cuban people, including planning the bombing of a civilian airliner that killed 73 people, Cuba has renounced its right to the terrorist.

There is only one obvious solution. Send him to Venezuela.

Posada Carriles is a Venezuelan citizen and a fugitive from Venezuelan justice. Venezuela has an extradition treaty with the United States and Venezuelan authorities have filed an official extradition request, not only for international crimes, but also acts committed in Venezuela. That is Washington's only legal and moral choice.

(Taken from Radio Havana Cuba)

Are they having problems with this NO BRAINER?

Put him in a leaky boat, tow it into the middle of the Atlantic, and challenge him to sneak back in again.