The National Assembly, in its ordinary session this Thursday, commemorated 46 years since the terrorist act that occurred on October 6, 1976 in Barbados, in which a Cubana de Aviación plane suffered an explosive attack that killed its 76 occupants.
Deputy Edgardo Ramírez, president of the Venezuela-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, took the floor to emphasize that this criminal act “should not be forgotten.”
Ramírez, who was the country’s ambassador to the Antillean nation, declared that it was “an abominable event” in which 57 of the deceased were of Cuban nationality, 24 of them members of the champion fencing team at the Central American and Caribbean Games, in addition to 11 Guyanese students who were going to study in the Caribbean nation.
He recalled that this criminal action had the anti-Castroists Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles as intellectual authors and stressed that the latter, protected by the United States, remained in that country despite the extradition requested by Hugo Chávez Frías and Nicolás Maduro, “what which makes it clear that the United States and the CIA were responsible for this crime.”
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The United Socialist Party of Venezuela also echoed the commemoration of the 46th anniversary of the blowing up of the Cuban plane through a letter by a member of its national leadership, Fidel Ernesto Vásquez, in which he recounts the events, in which also blames former President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
