Castro leads extradition calls in Cuba

Fidel Castro today led hundreds of thousands of people past the American mission to demand the arrest of a Cuban militant who is living in Miami while Venezuela tries to extradite him for a deadly airliner bombing.

Tue, 17 May, 2005 - 20:09

Accusing the US of hypocrisy in the war against terrorism, Fidel Castro today led hundreds of thousands of people past the American mission to demand the arrest of a Cuban militant who is living in Miami while Venezuela tries to extradite him for a deadly airliner bombing three decades ago.

Castro’s campaign against his old foe, Luis Posada Carriles, is the most intense media battle he has waged since the international custody struggle over young Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez.