*Want to do more?*

The National Network on Cuba suggests:

* add your signatures to the online petition at www.porlajusticia. com. Nearly 5000 others have already demanded
that Posada must be tried for his crimes
* write an op ed or letter to the editor of your local paper
* contact Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (202-353-1555) and demand that Posada be extradited to Venezuela.

sample letter - written by an NNOC member and published in the Boston
Globe:

> YOUR APRIL 21 editorial mentions several of the hundreds of acts of
terrorism against Cuba. It also states that Carriles couldn't expect
> a fair trial in Havana. This demands the comparison with the
possibility that the Cuban Five would receive a fair trial in Miami.
> Five Cuban men were sent to the United States to monitor and
provide information on counterrevolutionar y groups based in Florida
and involved in terrorist acts against Cuba. After the Cuban
government provided the United States with documentary evidence of
these terrorist activities, the United States arrested, tried, and
convicted the five men.
>
> In August 2005, a three-judge panel of the federal appellate court
in Atlanta reversed the convictions, concluding that the five did not
receive a fair trial in Miami. Rather than ordering a new trial
outside of Miami, Attorney General Gonzales called upon the full
Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit to review the decision. The court
rejected the earlier decision and sent the matter back to the panel.
This case, which has received virtually no coverage in the US media,
> demonstrates the double standard with which the United States
applies "justice."

Dear National Network On Cuba Members and Friends,

In the two years since Luis Posada Carriles boldly announced his
presence in the United States by calling a press conference, the
National Network On Cuba (NNOC), has joined in international efforts
to demand justice and to expose his history of terrorist activities;
actions supported, financed and directed by the highest levels of the
United States government.

Despite Posada's admission of terrorism including masterminding the
1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner killing all 73 persons on board and
involvement in a series of bombings in Cuba in the 1990's, the United
States has refused to charge him for what he is: a terrorist, and
has refused to extradite him to Venezuela as mandated by long
standing agreements between the United States and Venezuela. For two
years there has been a worldwide demand that he be brought to
justice. For two years the United States has held him only on minor
immigration charges.

On May 11, 2007, Posada is scheduled to return to El Paso, Texas for
trial on the immigration charges. We join the call for justice to be
done and for demonstrations to be held demanding that the
Bush/Alberto Gonzalez Department of Justice stop protecting this
international terrorist. We urge you to add your signatures to the
nearly 5000 others demanding that Posada must be tried for his crimes
at www.porlajusticia. com. Write an op ed or letter to the editor of
your local paper. Contact Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (202-353-
1555) and demand that Posada be extradited to Venezuela. As an
example, please see the letter that follows which was written by an
NNOC member and published in the Boston Globe. Send reports of your
local actions this Friday and beyond that you'd like to share with
other NNOC groups and we will distribute them to the list serve.

In Solidarity,
NNOC Co Chairs
Patsy Behrend
Marilyn McKenna
Ignacio Meneses
Sobukwe Shukura
Nalda Vigezzi