PPP renews call for justice in Air Cubana tragedy

The following is a statement issued late yesterday by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on the 33rd Anniversary of the notorious Cubana Air Disaster which claimed the lives of 11 Guyanese among its 73 victims.“The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) extends solidarity with the Government and people of Cuba on the 33rd Anniversary since the bombing of a Cuban Airliner in which eleven Guyanese were killed.
“Six of the Guyanese who perished in the disaster were Guyanese scholars on their way to pursue studies in Cuba.
“Cuban Flight 455 never made it to its destination after it was brought down by a terrorist attack on October 6, 1976 in what could be considered as the deadliest terrorist act committed in this hemisphere.
“A total of 73 persons lost their lives when the airline exploded. It is now an established fact that the bomb was planted in the airline by two Venezuelan mercenaries during a journey from Trinidad to Barbados.
“The PPP has also taken note of the fact that two of the confessed murderers, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, with close links to the CIA, continue until this day to walk freely in the streets of Miami.
“The PPP calls on the United States authorities to take measures to bring to justice all those who were responsible for this atrocity including theintellectual authors of the crime. Justice delayed is justice denied and itis never too late to dispense justice especially in the face of overwhelmingevidence to implicate those involved.”