Chronicle on Cuba - May 2005

Terrorism

May 30: Cuba has announced plans to stage an international meeting against terrorism in June. The official news agency Prensa Latina said the meeting would be attended by hundreds of intellectuals, artists, union and social leaders, congressmen and political leaders. The two-day event will be held under the theme "Against terrorism, for truth and justice". Cuban authorities have been critical of the position adopted by the United States with regards to the request by Havana and Venezuela for Luis Posada Carriles to be extradited on charges related to the 1976 bombing of the Cubana airline, which claimed the lives of 73 people. (CMC, 30/5/05)