On November 17, Luis Posada Carriles was captured along with three accomplices in Panama in an hotel room after President Castro, who was in the country attending the 10th Ibero-American Summit on Adolescents and Children, dramatically announced the group s plans to assassinate him the next day during a planned visit to the Univerersity of Panama. Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban American, who with the financial backing of the Cuban American National Foundation has engaged in various acts of terrorism against Cuba in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, including bombings and assassination attempts. He was imprisoned in Venezuela for planting the bomb which destroyed a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people on board, but then escaped from prison and was given refuge in Miami. Cuba has promised that he will receive a fair and open trial, and has proposed to set up an international tribunal, since Posada has committed crimes against people in a number of Latin American countries.
Time is of the essence.
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