Castro plotters lose pardon
Panama’s Supreme Court overturned a presidential pardon of four Cuban emigres accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro, including former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, officials said.
The court ruled late Monday that 180 pardons granted in 2004 by then-President Mireya Moscoso, including those of the Cubans, were unconstitutional, leaving open the possibility that many people could be returned to jail.
The attorney in Panama for Posada, Rogelio Cruz, said he believed Panama might request his client’s extradition from the U.S., where he is under a supervision order. U.S. prosecutors allege he entered illegally from Mexico in 2005.
Posada also has denied charges that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner, which killed 73 people.
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