Militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles has died
MIAMI — Former CIA operative and militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who was accused of organizing a string of 1997 Havana hotel bombings and a 1976 Cuban airline bombing that killed 73 people, has died. He was 90.
Posada, who had been diagnosed with throat cancer about five years ago, died Wednesday in Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood north of Miami.
“An extraordinary life has ended,” Arturo Hernandez, a lawyer for the hardline exile, told The Associated Press. “It’s a very sad morning for me, to say farewell to such a great man.”
Posada had been acquitted in 2011 by a federal jury in El Paso, Texas, of lying to U.S. officials about his role in the Havana bombings to win political asylum.