Venezuela Formally Seeks Custody of Posada
Venezuela formally requested the extradition of an anti-Castro militant accused of planning a 1976 airliner bombing that killed 73 people, the nation’s ambassador to the United States said.
Bernardo Alvarez said Venezuela formally presented the documents required to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, a staunch opponent of Fidel Castro wanted by Venezuelan prosecutors for plotting the bombing of the Cuban aircraft.
Posada was arrested in Miami last month and has been held in a U.S. detention center in El Paso since then. He has claimed that he sneaked into the U.S. from Mexico in March.
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