Mexico to Investigate Passage of Luis Posada Carriles through its Territory Ahora.cu / 28-06-2005 The Mexican authorities, at the request of the country's Congress, announced the start of an investigation to clarify the circumstances surrounding the passage of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles through that territory on his way to the US. The information published on Monday in the Mexican digital daily "Por Esto, pointed out that in charge of the case, registered as PGR/SIENDO/UEITNO85/2005, is the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Terrorism, Arms Stockpiling and Trafficking of Mexico's Attorney General's Office. The report adds that the investigation began after the Secretariat of Governance urged clarification of the incident, due to Congressional pressure in response to the denunciations of the daily Por Esto on the case of the passage of Posada Carriles through the state of Quintana Roo. The report was the first such denunciation of the international terrorist's journey from Isla Mujeres to the United States on board the boat Santrina in an operation organized by right wing Cuban American terrorists in Miami. Reporters from Por Esto, revealed the opinions of the international community on the details of the arrival in Mexico of Posada Carriles from Belize and later his trip to the city of Cancun and then on to Islas Mujeres. The self-confessed assassin was later transported to Miami in the state of Florida.on the Santrina, a vessel belonging to Santiago Alvarez, another Cuban-born terrorist. Posada Carriles was finally detained by US authorities on May 17th after two months in the US.
Por Esto daily added that Posada Carriles is well known to Mexican intelligence authorities as he carried out his first terrorist attacks in several Mexican cities starting in 1965, contracted by the late Cuban American terrorist Jorge Mas Canosa. The report points out that Carriles, known for his bombing of a Cubana airliner in 1976, was involved in the placing of explosive mines in the port of Veracruz. The operation was aimed at blowing up ships carrying the flag of the former Soviet Union and other Spanish and British vessels that were trading with Cuba. The article stresses that the full dossier of the criminal includes the placing of bombs in the Cuban embassies in Argentina, Peru and Mexico together with his accomplices Orlando Bosch, Hernan Ricardo and Freddy Lugo, members of the terrorist commando group 'Halcones Negros'. After the failure of various assassination attempts against Mexican journalist friends of the Cuban Revolution, the group of terrorists sought refuge in Central America where they participated in the financing of anti-Sandinista paramilitary groups and in the fight against the Salvadoran FMLN rebels.
Such activities later generated the Iran-Contras scandal which unmasked the ties between the US authorities and right wing counter-revolutionary elements based in Miami, also involved in international drug trafficking. Although Carriles presence in the US had been public knowledge thanks to the revelations in Por Esto and ample denunciations by President Fidel Castro in Havana, it was only when the American press began to release the story that the US authorities took any action. Even now the Bush government, which is attempting to portray itself as the leader in the fight against international terrorism, has only 'detained' the arch criminal Luis Posada Carriles on minor charges involving immigration rather than the gruesome crimes committed against innocent victims.
