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 74 innocents.
To many in Florida’s Cuban exile community, however, Posada remains — in the defiant words of one of the banners his supporters carried this week outside a Texas courtroom — “a soldier, a patriot, a fighter for liberty and democracy.”
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/13/f-luis-posada-cia-trial.html#ixzz1AwrXNpXq
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 
