Luis Posada Carriles, 72, was arrested on November...

Luis Posada Carriles, 72, was arrested on November 17 at a Panama hotel after Fidel Castro accused him and three others of planning to assassinate him arrived for the 10th Ibero-American summit. Castro has demanded that the anticommunist activist be extradited to Cuba, where he was convicted in absentia for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people. Panama rejected Cuba's request for the extradition. Panamanian First Vice President Arturo Vallarino said that if the suspects are tried in Panama and proven guilty, Luis Posada Carriles and his three associates would be punished in Panama rather than sent to Cuba where the death penalty awaits them.