Venezuelan President Condemns Washington's Protection of Terrorist

[T&T Venezuela Bolivarian Solidarity]

Havana, August 9 (acn) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday said in Montevideo, Uruguay, that the protection given by Washington to international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles shows that the US government is a world threat.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution recalled that, for more than two years now, his country has been formally asking for the extradition of Posada Carriles, one of the biggest terrorists in the history of the Western hemisphere, and that Washington has ignored that petition in spite of the abundant evidence that support the extradition request.

Chavez noted that everyone, including the US government, knows that Posada Carriles is a terrorist who has killed, planted bombs and trained terrorists and torturers. However, he said, Washington refuses to extradite him accusing him only of having violated the US migratory law.

"And now, he walks the streets of Miami as a free man," added the Venezuelan President.

Chavez made the statements during a press conference that ended a visit to Uruguay as part of a tour that began in Argentina and will continue in Ecuador and Bolivia.