Return Luis Posada Carriles

Editor,

President Obama should return to Venezuela the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles who blew up a Cubana airliner in 1967 killing all 73 people aboard and whom the United States has been harboring within our borders since he escaped from a Venezuelan prison while he was awaiting trial in 1985.

President Obama should also apologize for the toppling of dozens of democratically elected governments by the United States in Latin America since 1953 and replacing them with murdering, torturing dictators.

President Obama should also close the School of the Americas (now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), in Fort Benning, Georgia, where the United States trained those dictators' murderers and torturers.

re: "Obama Defends Reaching Out to Chávez" (4/20/2009)