Why should the United States prosecute Jared Lee Loughner for the recent massacre in Tucson, but not Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative suspected of murdering 73 people in a terrorist bombing of a Cuban airliner? Writing for Mexico’s La Jornada, attorney Jose Pertierra argues that the hypocritical protection of Carriles by the U.S. government is an intolerable double-standard, particularly in an age of terrorism.
For La Jornada, Jose Pertierra writes in part:
It’s 319 miles from Tucson to El Paso, a trip of four and a half hours by car. A link of dramatic tension unites the two communities – one of hate and terrorism, only now, as Tucson is in mourning, the criminal in El Paso has full confidence in the laws of the United States, knowing that they do not apply to him.
Luis Posada Carriles is the mastermind of one of the most heinous crimes in the history of international terrorism. On October 6, 1976, he detonated two bombs made with C-4 – an explosive available only to the CIA at the time – that brought down a Cuban aircraft in midflight near the coast of Barbados. There were no survivors among its 73 passengers.
Like Jared Loughner on that Saturday in Tucson, Posada assassinated a 9-year-old girl. Sabrina Paul was traveling with her family aboard the aircraft. The blast blew open Sabrina’s head and chest. The evidence of who the perpetrators and masterminds were was overwhelming.
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