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May 2007. Luis Posada Carriles walks free from a US court after a judge dismisses immigration charges against him.
April 2007. A US federal court releases Posada Carriles from custody pending the commencement in May of his trial in the USA on charges of illegal immigration. November 2006. A US judge rules that the US authorities must provide evidence by Feb. 1, 2007, to justify the continued incarceration of Posada Carriles. October 2006. The US department of justice lodges objections to a decision in September by a US judge to release Posada Carriles from custody, claiming that he is a danger to US national security. September 2006. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro accuses the US government of making a distinction between "good terrorists and bad terrorists", after a US judge recommends that Posada Carriles is released from US custody. September 2005. A US immigration judge rules that Posada Carriles cannot be extradited to Venezuela because there is "prima facie" evidence that he could face torture. August 2005. Cuba restores diplomatic relations with Panama, one year after former Panamanian President Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Gruber pardoned and released Posada Carriles from Panamanian custody. June 2005. Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz denounces a US government decision to reject a formal extradition request from Venezuela for Posada Carriles, claiming that the US-led "war on terror" is beset with hypocrisy. May 2005. Posada Carriles is arrested in the USA on charges of illegal immigration. August 2004. A diplomatic dispute erupts between Panama and Cuba after Panamanian President Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Gruber pardons Posada Carriles for his involvement in an alleged plot to assassinate Castro during his visit to Panama in November 2000. April 2004. A court in Panama sentences Posada Carriles to eight years in prison after being convicted of an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Castro during his visit to Panama in November 2000. November 2000. The 10th Ibero-American summit is held in Panama City (the capital of Panama). March 1999. Raúl Ernesto Cruz León, a Salvadorean who confessed to a string of 1997 hotel bombings in Havana, is convicted of terrorism and sentenced to death by a Cuban tribunal. February 1999. The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), the most influential Cuban exile group within the USA, announces that it intends to elect Jorge Mas Santos, the son of its late leader Jorge Mas Canosa, to succeed his father. August 1998. Posada Carriles is reported to be behind a plan to smuggle arms, explosives, and a hit squad into the Dominican Republic in an attempt to kill Castro during his visit to Santo Domingo (the capital). July 1998. Posada Carriles admits that he had organised a wave of terrorist attacks in 1997 against civilian targets in Havana (the capital of Cuba). May 1998. US federal prosecutors announce the launch of an investigation into the activities of the CANF in relation to an alleged plot to assassinate Castro. November 1997. Jorge Mas Canosa, a US-based anti-Castro Cuban exile who created the CANF dies, aged 58. September 1997. The Cuban government claims that a series of bomb attacks in Havana are part of a terrorist campaign organised from the USA and part of a plan to damage Cuba’s tourist industry. August 1997. A bomb causes minor damage but no injuries at the Spanish-owned Meli Cohiba hotel in Havana, prompting the Cuban government to blame US-based "terrorists" for the attack. July 1997. A series of bomb attacks take place at the Capri and Nacional tourist hotels in Havana. April 1994. Jorge Mas Canosa, the leader of the CANF, responds to (false) rumours of Castro’s death by announcing from Miami a new transitional Cuban government. November 1993. At the UN General Assembly 88 countries vote in favour of ending the US trade embargo against Cuba, whilst 57 countries abstain and four countries (USA, Israel, Paraguay, and Albania) vote against ending the sanctions; Andres Nazario Sargen, the head of Alpha-66, a Puerto Rico-based anti-Castro Cuban exile group, confirms plans by the group to kidnap foreign tourists in Cuba. October 1992. US President George H Bush signs the Cuban Democracy Act, making it illegal for the subsidiaries of US companies to trade with Cuba. August 1985. Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Alberto Consalvi expresses his hope that relations between his government and Cuba will not be adversely affected by Posada Carriles’s recent escape from prison in Venezuela. May 1985. Eduardo Arocena, the presumed leader of Omega-7, a US-based anti-Castro Cuban-exile group, is sentenced in the USA to 20 years in prison for bomb attacks against Nicaraguan, Mexican, Venezuelan and Soviet embassies in Miami and New York in 1979--83. September 1980. The Cuban government closes the port of Mariel to help bring an end to the refugee exodus that had since April seen some 123,000 Cubans leave by boat for the USA; Cuba condemns a decision in Venezuela to acquit four men accused of placing a bomb which killed 73 people on board a Cuban airliner over Barbados in 1976. April 1979. Omega-7 is held responsible for the murder in Puerto Rico of Carlos Muniz Valera, a travel agent who organised tours to Cuba for Cuban exiles. October 1978. Omega-7 detonates a bomb in front of the Cuban mission to the UN, injuring three people, and launches a bomb attack against the offices of a US-based moderate Cuban-exiles newspaper. October 1976. A bomb explodes on a Cuban airliner, killing all 73 people aboard. September 1962. An armed vessel belonging to Alpha--66 raids the Cuban port of Caibarien raking the 7,000-tonne UK freighter Newlane and a Cuban ship with tracer bullets. February 1962. The US government imposes an export embargo on Cuba. February 1959. Castro is inaugurated as the prime minister of Cuba. February 1959. The dictatorial regime of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista collapses after insurgent forces commanded by Castro establish control of Cuba.
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