Assange: Will the US Remember It Granted Asylum to Carriles at Its Sierra Leone Embassy?

Will the people from the U.S. remember that their country granted asylum to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles at the U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Sierra Leone while the old “Anti-Castro” murderer was busy trafficking arms to said African nation?

After sheepishly pursuing him on behalf of the U.S., the U.K. keeps Julian Assange sequestered in London, meanwhile on North American soil there are hundreds of political thugs from the entire world — most particularly from Latin America — who obtain asylum from the State Department, which in turn keeps quiet as to their presence, whereabouts and human rights violations.

The case of Posada in Sierra Leone correctly portrays Washington’s double standard when it comes to covering up and protecting its minions.

When Posada was operating from El Salvador, where he had established a terrorist base from which he carried out a series of attacks in Havana, he took a trip to Africa during which he was surprised by the military takeover on May 25, 1997.

Fearing for his life, the veteran CIA agent, who was supposedly being hounded for his crimes as a DISIP [Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services] “anti-Castro” terrorist, had to bypass security protocol and request asylum at the U.S. Embassy.

Posada didn’t have the slightest problem being recognized and obtaining temporary protection from the country which today openly admits to publishing the list of “countries who sponsor terrorism” in which it describes countries it wants to discredit at the moment.

Appearing on Posada’s fake Salvadoran passport, number 547378, under the name of Franco Rodriguez Mena, is the Sierra Leone visa with stamps that clearly show his entry via the neighboring nation of Liberia.

On various occasions Posada boasted about his friends in the CIA and the FBI, and what great treatment he received from the Yankee diplomats in that small country where they apparently all felt quite at home.

Hundreds of Political Delinquents

Upon the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship in Cuba, the list of assassins, torturers, hit men and henchmen who were all granted asylum, was endless. Thousands of Batista thugs instantly received permanent immunity after setting foot on North American soil and presenting credentials from the respective repressive bodies of Mafioso regimes, all of which had been regularly receiving instructions from the Yankee embassy.

From the gangster Rolando Masferrer, who ended up murdered in Miami, to the terrorist Carlos Alberto Montaner, who later became a CIA expert, and his partner Armando Vallardares—all received a warm welcome from the same U.S. State Department that today discusses the Assange case while evoking the niceties of diplomatic conventions.

Land of Asylum for Scum Bags

The United States is the preferred land of asylum for all the known and unknown thugs who have ever done the bidding of the U.S. empire during its never-ending hegemonic expansion. In the case of Latin America, many human rights violators receive protection from the imperial power, along with receiving political and intelligence tools.

Can the State Department explain how it can justify the presence of Bolivian Alejandro Melgar, the leader of the magnified conspiracy of Santa Cruz, in the United States; the man who financed the creation of the terrorist command made up of Croatian mercenaries who tried to assassinate President Evo Morales?

And how can one explain the formal or virtual asylum granted to:

— Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Losada, the ex- Bolivian leader responsible for the Gas Conflict massacre that caused 60 deaths and 500 wounded, along with various ex-ministers who were also implicated in the killings.

— During the 70s, Joaquim Chaffardet, ex-Venezuelan DISIP director, one of Luis Posada Carriles’ accomplices in the torture, disappearance and murder of hundreds of Venezuelan revolutionaries.

— Military traitor José Antonio Colina and his accomplice Raúl Díaz Peña wanted for C4 explosive attacks in Caracas and who have been seen in public meetings with congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

— Patricia Poleo, accomplice during the murder of Venezuelan prosecutor Danilo Anderson from Miami, who slandered the Bolivian government and its leaders.

— The ex-DISIP agent Johan Peña who set off the bomb that blew Anderson, his accomplice José Guevara and his vehicle to bits.

—Carlos Vides Casanova, the ex-boss of the National Guard of El Salvador, torturer of North American nuns.

— Roberto Guillermo Bravo, Argentinean official, responsible for the massacre of Trelew that cost the lives of 16 young revolutionaries.

— Jaime Lusinchi, the ex-Venezuelan President, wanted for corruption and for his participation on the Ymare massacre.

—Jaime García Covarrubias, a former senior official under orders of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accused of torture and assassinations, now a professor at the Pentagon in Washington.

— Inocente Orlando Montano, former Salvadorian colonel, accomplice to the murder of Jesuit priests.

— Ray David Charles, an ex-operative of the U.S. military during the criminal Pinochet dictatorship.

— Jamil Mahuad, the former Ecuadorian president responsible for the deaths of dozens of his fellow countrymen.

— Cesar Matamoros, the Panamanian terrorist and accomplice to Posada Carriles, today discretely relocated to Miami.

— Francisco Morales, ex-Peruvian dictator, wanted in Argentina for kidnapping.

—Carlos Yacaman, killer of the former Housing Minister under the Zelaya administration in Honduras, Roland Valenzuela, who indentified Jacqueline Foglia Sandoval as a CIA collaborator involved in the military takeover, and who is also living quietly in Miami.

Is it for love of human rights that the U.S. is the land of exile for such people as Michael Townley, Guillermo Novo, José Dionisio Suárez y Virgilio Paz, killers of former Chilean Foreign Minister Letelier?