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Barbados Crime Victims Still Waiting for Justice

Dora Lidia Garzon has been asking herself the same question for 32 years after losing her son in a terrorist attack against a Cuban airliner, known as the Crime of Barbados: When will Posada Carriles pay for all his crimes against humanity?

On October 6, 1976, the notorious terrorist and his accomplices cut short the life of Jose Angel Fernandez (19), called Pepin by his friends, and of 72 other people onboard the Cubana passenger airliner flying from Barbados.

Pepin, the younger of three sons, was a member of the Cuban national junior fencing team that was flying back home after winning a regional championship in Barbados. The plane was blown up in midair in an act of terrorism mastermined by Posada Carriles.  

He had a promising future as a fencer and also as a mechanical engineer as he was studying at the University of Havana when he was killed, said the mother.

Like the rest of the mothers and relatives of the victims of the Crime of Barbados, Dora Lidia, 76, is still waiting for the mastermind of the act to be punished.

This Monday, October 6, the telephone in her home in Los Olmos neighborhood, Santiago de Cuba, has not stopped ringing as friends, relatives of the other victims and members of the Cuban Sports Institute call to express their sorrow.

Source: 

ACN

Date: 

06/10/2008