Salvadoran Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, who played a decisive role in the attacks against Cuban tourist facilities in 1997, has been released from prison after serving almost three decades

By: Roberto Morejón

The Salvadoran Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, who played a decisive role in the attacks against Cuban tourist facilities in 1997, has been released from prison after serving almost three decades for continued terrorism.

The justice system of the largest of the Antilles put Cruz León and others accused in those events that filled the Caribbean nation and even Italy with grief.

It should be recalled that the tourist Fabio Di Celmo was killed by the explosion of one of the bombs planted in Havana hotels.

The Salvadoran, who confessed to having committed six bombings, was an executor of the plans conceived by the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, an agent of the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.

The latter was a notorious criminal who was a co-author of the sabotage of a Cuban airliner in 1976, which caused the death of 73 people.

Unsatisfied with this massacre, Posada Carriles established himself in Central America, while maintaining his ties to the CIA.

From there, he woven a network of mercenaries, entrusting them with subversive missions, including blowing up tourist sites in Cuba.

 Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon fit the bill, claiming in an interview with the Associated Press that he was simply a soldier sent to a war he did not belong to and should never have been involved in.

He accused Cuban-American CIA agents of financing and ordering attacks to undermine Cuba's tourist infrastructure. 

Posada Carriles, who was never prosecuted in the United States and died there in freedom, worked with the Cuban-American National Foundation, with Washington's support, on the subversive plans.

In statements to the media, Posada Carriles took responsibility for what he called "any act within Cuban territory against the regime in Havana.

The Cuban government has denounced that other promoters of terrorism today enjoy impunity in the United States, despite the fact that they have revealed themselves to be rabid enemies of the Caribbean archipelago.

As the Cuban press has pointed out, in this country the rules of its legal system are applied impartially and with respect for human rights, hence the recent release of Cruz Leon at the end of his sentence.

Nevertheless, the international community must demand that the organizers and financiers of these terrorist acts be held accountable.