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Alarcon De Quesada

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1992-05-21
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  1. “He had left jail on 18 August 1985, approximately two years before the court rendered its judgment, and therefore without having been the object of a decision; a few weeks later he was already being interviewed from Central America where, according to him, he was very active. I have taken the trouble to bring with me today, along with a large number of other documents, a book entitled The Tower Commission Report, a volume that is actually not very useful, very carefully prepared as it was so as not to reveal an undue amount of information. Members may recall that the President of the United States appointed a Commission headed by Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  2. “Luis Posada Carriles, but those who may still wish to cover up this case cannot hide behind the decision of any tribunal because the court decided the only thing that it could decide: that it could do nothing because Posada was no longer under its jurisdiction. The subsequent ups and downs in the path followed by this gentieman should be taken into account by the Council. First of all, a few weeks after Posada's departure from the Venezuelan prison, a Venezuelan magazine interviewed him and he said that at that time that he was somewhere jn Central America in the vanguard in the struggle against communism.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  3. “And when the motion for habeas corpus was considered the court decided that the decision of the Department of Justice was correct. All of this is in official documents. We are not speaking of prehistoric matters but of very current matters, because, as I have said, the gentleman in question is in this country. He is free. But although it is a freedom subject to certain requirements, one finds public statements by that gentleman in the Miami press in this case convening a political meeting on the streets of Miami, and statements of all kinds which show that he is quite active in political life to this day. The other case is that of Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  4. “Bosch and his attorneys have never appealed that court decision; nor did they have to, because by higher decision, despite what the Department of Justice had decided, and despite the view of the Miami District Court, Mr. Bosch was released - but by a higher decision of the Executive Branch. It was not the decision of any court of law. I wished to be discreet in my letter and I aid not think it necessary to name the higher authority - higher than the Attorney General of the United States. I think that anyone familiar with the organization of the United States knows that the higher authority - and 4£ I am mistaken my colleagues from the United States can correct me - is the President of the United States of America. It is no court of law. No court of law considered the appeal, because there was no appeal.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  5. “Bosch not only was not deported but that by a "higher decision" he was released. I do not know for what curious reason that statement, which is very clear in Spanish, was translated into English as by decision of a "senior judicial authority". I am not interested in linguistics, but I do think it necessary to make Clear that there was no judicial decision contradicting the Department of Justice. Quite the contrary: when the District Court of Miami rejected Mr. Bosch's motion for a writ of habeas corpus it Supported the legality of the action taken by the Department of Justice and ruled that the matter of deportation was within the exclusive purview of the Executive Branch and that, in the view of the District Court judge, it was not up to the Court to act. Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  6. “I repeat, one would find no proof or evidence of any action having been taken by the American authorities, either at that time or after 4 August 1989, when the report was published. Some may think that since the deaths of those three children occurred in 1963 it is ancient history which the Council can disregard. Mr. Bosch was finally released, despite the determination of the Department of Justice ~ and I Should like here to digress for a moment because, unfortunately, in the translation into English of the text of my letter, which is annexed to the document, there is a Strange phrase which bears no relation to the original Spanish text. In the Spanish text at the end of my letter I say in a paragraph which I entitle "Note" that, despite the arguments by the Department of Justice, Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  7. “Bosch's lawyers with many documents, one 1,700 pages long, many of them completely blocked out, according to the Herald. However, one of those bits of information reveals that the 1963 terrorist act in the City of Santa Clara in Cuba, in which one adult and three children were killed, had been carried out by Mr. Bosch. If one were to review the documents of the Department of Justice, if one were to go to the libraries in the United States, one would find no record of any judicial action having been taken in the United States, even after the report published in Miami that Bosch had killed one adult and three children in a terrorist act hatched in the United States.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  8. “Bosch was in Florida illegally, an interesting statement was made by the Regional Director for Florida of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States, Mr. Rivkind. He said that Mr. Bosch's letter showed that he was an extremist, since in Miami, right after his acquittal, Mr. Bosch, among other things, publicly justified the act of sabotage against the Cubana airliner. Mr. Rivkind justly said that, had he known that this person was capable of such an act, he would have expelled him upon arrival on American territory. But other things happened too - other things which show that the United States knew - and knows - a lot more about Mr. Bosch than what is known by any court on this planet. For example, information was published by the Miami Herald announcing that the Central Intelligence Agency had provided Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  9. “This document contains a large number of pages devoted to an account -- simply an account - of the information, the elements or the data received from national, Venezuelan, sources or from foreign countries - information which the court, for one reason or another, decided not to take into account. Nowhere in that long list is there reference to any data offered by the Government of the United States. Therefore, it is clear that when the court rendered its decision regarding Mr. Bosch it did not have - just as that court, its members, or anyone else except for the Government of the United States does not have today - the information referred to by the Department of Justice which the United States Government still holds as confidential. At the time Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  10. “In another communication I noted that I have the entire text ~ it is with me now - of the Venezuelan court's verdict in August 1987, Anyone who reads this very long document will see that it repeatedly refers to information which the Venezuelan court received from authorities in Barbados, in Trinidad and Tobago, in Cuba, in Guyana ~ States which, for one reason or another, were affected by the incident. Nowhere in this document do we see any reference to the court's having received, directly or indirectly, information of any sort from authorities in the United States.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  11. “(8/23890, p>>> 14) (spoke in Spanish) That statement does not appear in a Cuban document; it does not appear in the pages of any radical publication criticizing the Government of the United States: it appears in an official document of the Department of Justice of the United States, among the arguments on the basis of which the Department of Justice decided to deport Mr. Bosch from the United States, In the following paragraphs of this document it can be seen that the United States Government also possesses information on the activities which Mr. Bosch, while in a Venezuelan prison, had been carrying out against Venezuela or against Cuba or against other States - acts of terrorism, Sabotage and violence.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  12. “Perhaps the most relevant information for our purposes appears in the document annexed to my letter dated 8 May 1992, which has been distributed. I should like once again to draw the attention of members of the Security Council to a passage from the statement by the Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States which is contained in this document, the passage which relates to the confidential information - according to him, voluminous - in the hands of the United States Government on this person. I now read from the document: (spoke in English) "tnformation reflecting that the October 6, 1976 Cuban airline bombing was a CORU operation under the direction of Bosch".”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  13. “Luis Posada Carriles, was not punished in any way- For good reasons, the Venezuelan court decided not to render any verdict concerning him, simply because at that time he was not in the custody of Venezuelan authorities, having left the prison in which he had been held. The other person, Mr. Orlando Bosch Avila, was acquitted. But, as members of the Council know - I had a document in this connection circulated - following his release from the Venezuelan prison after his acquittal, Mr. Orlando Bosch travelled to the United States. This gentleman's arrival in the United States gave rise to quite a bit of discussion and polemics, which brought to light some information regarding his long career as & terrorist.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  14. “We know that judicial Proceedings were held in the territory of a brother State, Venezuela .. a process which was carried out with the effective cooperation of several Caribbean States that in one way or another were affected by this tragic incident, including of course the Republic of Cuba, We believe that two facts are obvious from this process, First, while on the one hand two individuals were punished as having been the direct perpetrators of the act of sabotage, the later events regarding the other two persons, who had been accused of being the masterminds of the act, followed a different course, which the Council simply cannot disregard. One of them, Mr.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  15. “We also requested that, in this context, the Security Council consider some points relevant to the in-flight destruction of a Cuban Civilian aircraft on 6 October 1976 near the islana of Barbados. This request does not relate to matters that are not of current, immediate relevance to the date on which the Council has finally met. Moreover, we are not requesting the members of the Council to consider any We are aware that, in one way or another, doubts have been expressed or questions have been raised with regard to this request. Therefore, I should everyone to understand why we maintain that this matter has not been closed, that it has not been appropriately and finally dealt with. What is involved is a shameful act with regard to which justice has not yet been fully done.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source

  16. “Mr. ALARCON de QUESADA (Cuba) (interpretation from Spanish): At the outset, it is a pleasure for me to convey to you my delegation's gratification at seeing you presiding over the work of this organ, not only because of the friendly relations between our two countries but also because I have had the privilege of knowing you personally for a number of years and of growing to recognize your personal and professional qualities. We are certain that you will continue to discharge this important responsibility in a manner that will reflect favourably upon the Council. My delegation requested a meeting of the Security Council to consider the terrorist activities against my country promoted, encouraged or tolerated by the Government of the United States.”

    1992-05-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.3080 (1992) · source