“I call on the United Nations to intervene in this case. We will take this case to the United Nations. This is the last straw!” expressed Chávez in his Sunday radio and television program, “Alo Presidente.”
The leader reminded viewers that Venezuela has asked the United States for the extradition of Posada Carriles, who is
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Posada, an ex-agent of the CIA and naturalized Venezuelan citizen in the 1960s, was jailed since 2005 in the United States, accused of immigration fraud and false testimony. Last Thursday, he was freed on bail upon payment of $350,000.
Chávez accused the government of his U.S. counterpart, George W. Bush, of “protecting terrorists” for supposedly permitting the freeing of the anti-Castro Posada, 79-years-old.
For the head of state, “it is not a coincidence” that the U.S. authorities have released Posada Carriles, “now that it is initiating a new destabilization plan against Venezuela, which supposedly includes assassination of him.
Posada Carriles “has been planning for years, not only the death of Fidel Castro butof me, also,” through a regional “network” that the “CIA is re-activating.”
“I hold the president of the United States responsible … for pushing through a new destabilization plan and giving the green light for plans of magnicide, more precisely, plans to assassinate me,” said Chávez.
José Pertierra, Venezuela’s legal representative in the extradition matter of Posada Carriles, said last Friday that Caracas is studying the possibility of denouncing the United States before the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS) for the freedom of that “terrorist.”
“Venezuela is studying the idea of soliciting the Committee Against Terrorism of the Security Council of the UN, to open an investigation into the conduct of the U.S. government and its authorities … for the freeing of the terrorist Posada Carriles,” Pertierra said.
According to the attorney, with Posada’s release on bail, the United States is failing to fulfill its obligation to the UN Resolution 1373, approved Sept. 28, 2001 after the World Trade Center attacks in New York.”
The resolution establishes that “all the States should abstain from giving help to persons who have participated in the commission of terrorism,” explained Pertierra.
The Venezuelan [government] is also studying the possibility of denouncing the United States “before the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism of the Organization of American States, so that it also examine the conduct of Washington,” asserted the attorney.
