Luis Posada Carriles' compadre arrested

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Various <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/21/ap/national/mainD8E0VLH01.shtml">news</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=47028">agencies</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> report today that Santiago Alvarez, a Miami-based Cuban activist and longtime friend of Luis Posada Carriles, was arrested this weekend during a raid on his Miami home.<br><br>"Santiago Alvarez was charged Saturday with possession of automatic weapons, including some with the serial numbers erased, and possession of a false passport, said Matthew Dates, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Miami. He declined to give any further detail Monday."<br><br>Who trafficks in automatic weapons whose serial numbers have been eradicated? And false passports?<br><br>Anyhow... just thought I'd share. <p></p><i></i>

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narconews reports Alvarez smuggled Posada into the USA by boat. Posada claims to have crossed the mexican border “like thousands of people do each day.” <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://narconews.com/Issue38/article1354.html">narconews.com/Issue38/article1354.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>After all, a lot is at stake for Santiago Alvarez if authorities conclude that he and the other crew members were found to have smuggled an illegal alien into the United States. Their own legal presence on U.S. soil, as Cuban-born naturalized American citizens, could become jeopardized, not to mention additional burdens under law for immigrant smugglers.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/alarcon06172005.html">www.counterpunch.org/alar...72005.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>At the recent El Paso hearing, Posada was accompanied by, among others, Santiago Alvarez, a pretty well known anti-Cuba fanatic himself. Mr. Alvarez has been supporting Posada, quite openly, at least since Mr. Posada was arrested in Panama in 2000. Alvarez sent a plane to pick up Posada, when he was pardoned by the Panamanian President. It was Mr. Alvarez who announced, in March 2005, that Posada was in Miami. Since that moment Alvarez has been acting as his spokesman and he was the one that organized and chaired the press conference with Posada last May.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>

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thanks for the additional links. I was thinking of the timing of all this today when I found next to nothing amongst the spin about the tragedy of November 22, 1963...<br><br><sigh> <p></p><i></i>