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Luis Posada Carriles, anti-Castro figure
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- A jury acquitted anti-Castro figure Luis Posada Carriles in 2011 of charges of lying to immigration officials about how he entered the U.S. in 2005 and his alleged role in bombings in Cuba in 1997. Posada was not charged with placing the bombs or organizing the bombing campaign at Cuban tourist sites or with sneaking into the country illegally.
Posada told U.S. immigration officials that he did not arrange for anyone to plant the bombs at Cuban tourist sites and insisted that he entered the Unites States across the Mexican border, assisted by a migrant smuggler.
A paid CIA agent for at least 12 years in the 1960s and 1970s, Posada participated indirectly in the Bay of Pigs invasion and later moved to Venezuela, where he served as head of that country's intelligence service. He was arrested on charges of planning the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. A Venezuelan military court dismissed the charges, but Posada escaped from prison before a civilian trial against him was completed.
- 5/16/2012
- Album ID: 1470924
When generations get together, smiles brighten the day
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- Intergenerational programs bring together youths and senior citizens so they can support and learn from each other. Students from the Toussaint Louverture Elementary School visited the assisted living facility at Miami Jewish Health Systems in Miami.
- 5/10/2012
- Album ID: 1467629
Lobbyist kept low profie in 1982
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- Legislators seldom see Miami's lobbyist, The Herald reported in 1982.
- 5/7/2012
- Album ID: 1465770
New home of the Marlins, 2012
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- The Miami Marlins baseball team gets a new home stadium.
- 5/4/2012
- Album ID: 1464026
Syd Hoff, author and cartoonist who helped kids read
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- Beloved children's author and magazine cartoonist Syd Hoff died in 2004 at 91. He wrote "Danny and the Dinosaur." The one-time New Yorker cartoonist wrote and illustrated the first volume of the "Danny and the Dinosaur" trilogy in 1958.
- 4/25/2012
- Album ID: 1458216
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