COMMENTARY Luis Posada, terrorist or patriot? Castro’s nemesis, a former CIA operative, goes on trial in Texas By Stephen Kimber, special to CBC News To the Cuban government, Luis Posada Carriles is the Osama bin Laden of Latin America, a coldly calculating, unapologetic Cold Warrior who is responsible for the murder of at least […]
- 01/13/2011
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CBC Radio’s award-winning international news program Dispatches today will feature an interview with me about the opening of the Luis Posada immigration fraud trial in El Paso, Texas. You can hear the program on CBC.ca at 1 pm (1:30 pm in Newfoundland) across the CBC Radio 1 network, and again on Sundays at 7 pm ET, […]
- 01/13/2011
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Laying the groundwork for what sounded very much like a Bill Clinton “I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman” defence, Luis Posada’s lawyer insisted today his client “told the truth… told substantially the truth on the major questions” that U.S. prosecutors insist he lied about. During opening arguments at Posada’s trial on charges he lied during his 2005 immigration application, Arturo […]
- 01/12/2011
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Freshly-minted jurors at the Luis Posada Carriles trial in El Paso got a taste yesterday of what they can expect during the next few months as Posada’s immigration fraud proceedings morphed from jury selection to the almost-beginnings of the trial itself. Luis Posada Carriles After lawyers for the two sides agreed on who should serve […]
EL PASO, Texas–Luis Posada Carrile’s long-awaited, much delayed trial stuttered–almost literally–out of the gate Monday. Anti Posada demonstrators outside court house Judge Kathleen Cardone spent a long day bulk-questioning 130 potential jurors about everything from whether they’d read or heard anything about the case–42 had–to whether they, or their friends or family, had any connection […]
Barring some unforeseen delay or last-minute stall, alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles will finally get his day in court a week from today in an El Paso, Texas, courtroom. But he won’t be facing terrorism charges… at least not directly. Luis Posada Carriles Posada, 82—a Cuban-exile militant with a rap sheet that stretches back to […]
On December 29, 2001, the Cuban Parliament unanimously voted to declare five Cuban intelligence agents—who had been sentenced in Miami earlier that month to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life—“Heroes of the Republic of Cuba.” It is Cuba’s highest honour. The five—Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero—were part […]
- 12/29/2010
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On December 8, 1998, after a 14-day trial, jurors in Puerto Rico acquitted five anti-Castro exile militants of plotting to kill Fidel Castro. Afterwards, two of the jurors told reporters the verdict was intended to send a “message to the Cuban people that we’re with you.” The jurors then left the courthouse, singing the Cuban […]
- 12/08/2010
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Ten years ago today—on December 6, 2000—five Cuban men finally went on trial in a small chamber on the seventh floor of the Miami court building. They were charged with everything from the relatively minor offence of failing to register as foreign agents all the way to conspiracy to commit murder. In his opening statement, […]
- 12/06/2010
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U.S. prosecutors are calling on federal Judge Kathleen Cardone to reject a defence motion to exclude from Luis Posada Carriles’ upcoming immigration fraud trial any evidence the Americans obtained from the Cuban government. But the prosecutors’ response—filed in El Paso earlier this week (November 25)—also offers an intriguing glimpse into just how much information the […]
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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