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US judge rejects Cuban exile's request for release after immigration fraud charges

February 22, 2007 07:52:00 AM

A federal judge declared Wednesday that an anti-Castro militant who allegedly was behind the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner will stay in jail pending trial on charges of lying on a naturalization application. Luis...

January 12, 2007 07:29:00 AM

A Cuban exile militant wanted in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people was indicted Thursday by a US federal grand jury in Texas on one count of...

September 29, 2005 09:08:00 AM

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Wednesday strongly criticized a ruling from a US immigration judge earlier this week that Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles would not be handed over to Venezuela...

September 28, 2005 07:35:00 AM

Texas Judge William L. Abbott ruled Tuesday that former anti-Castro CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles will not be deported to either Cuba or Venezuela where local officials want to prosecute him for alleged terrorist acts. US attorneys...

September 1, 2005 10:19:00 AM

A Cuban-born anti-Castro former CIA operative withdrew his petition for asylum in the US Wednesday, stating that if he continued to testify, he was afraid he may have to reveal state secrets. Luis Posada Carriles entered the...

August 29, 2005 03:02:00 PM

An immigration judge held a hearing Monday to determine if former anti-Castro CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles should be granted asylum to the US after illegally entering through Mexico earlier this year. Venezuelan officials have...

July 26, 2005 07:13:00 PM

A US immigration judge has denied a request to set bail and free former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles , who is wanted in Venezuela for his involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane....

June 16, 2005 02:25:00 PM

Venezuela has officially requested the extradition of alleged terrorist and Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles . Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and former CIA collaborator, is wanted for allegedly blowing up a Cuban airline in 1976 and later escaping...

June 13, 2005 08:23:00 AM

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he will sue the US in an international court if the US does not comply with a request to extradite Cuban exile and naturalized Venezuelan Luis Posada Carriles ....

June 11, 2005 10:06:00 AM

Venezuela delivered evidence to the US State Department Friday related to Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles who is sought by Caracas for allegedly blowing up a Cuban plane as part of a terrorist attack in...

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