Born February 15, 1928 in Cienfuegos, Cuba.

Parents: Luis and Dolores.

Chemical Engineer specialized on Sugar.

Height: 190 cm.

Eyes: green

Hair: cane

Skin: white

Several scars in his face.

Married to the Cuban citizen Nievelina "Nieves" González Leyva, with whom he had two sons called Jorge y Janert. Keep extramarital relations in El Salvador with Helsie "Titi" Bosch, who passed away in 1999.

During his life has used several alias: Ramón Medina, Ignacio Medina, Juan Ramón Medina, Ramón Medina Rodríguez, José Ramón Medina, Rivas López, Juan José Rivas, Juan José Rivas López, Julio César Dumas, Franco Rodríguez Mena and Melvin Cloide Thompson. His family and friends call him Bambi.

1954: He moves to Havana and gets involved with politicians related with dictador Fulgencio Batista.

 1955: Undercover collaborator of Batista’s police.

 1957: Maintains contacts with the FBI.

1959: Establishes relations with counterrevolutionary groups that carry out a number of sabotages in the island.

1961: He exiled in the Argentina Embassy on an alleged political persecution.

 1961. Posada Left Cuba on February 25, 1961.

Although a member of the 2506 Brigade (organized, trained, financed and armed by the US government to try and topple the Cuban revolution) he did not participate in the Bay of Pigs invasion, because the ship that transported him never made it to Cuban shores.

25 de febrero de 1961: He travels to Miami with a safe-conduct. A week later, following CIA’s instructions, establishes relations with the counterrevolutionary organizations preparing the forthcoming Bay of Pig invation.

 Marzo-abril de 1961: Sirve como instructor de los que en Guatemala se preparaban a integrar los equipos de infiltración y sabotajes a territorio cubano en Bahía de Cochinos. No participa en la invasión pues su barco no llega al lugar antes del fracaso de la fuerza mercenaria.

Posada Carriles’ preparation as a terrorist included training in military tactics, espionage, sabotage, explosives handling, demolition and firearms. He was a
member of the counterrevolutionary group called "Commandos L" and by 1963 was in the US Army and receiving training at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Marzo-abril, 1961: He Works as instructor for those receiving training in Guatemala to enter the infiltration and sabotaje teams who would later come to Cuba during Bay of Pig. He does not participate in the invasion because his vessel cannot make it before the mercenary failure.

 1961-1962: He gets involved with the terrorist organization Movimiento Nacionalista Cubano (MNC)

 In 1963 entered the CIA. There he started training new recruits on maritime techniques.

 1964-1965: Involved in activities against the Cuban Revolution in the United Status, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

 In 1964 started a military training camp near Tampa, Florida, belonged to the terrorist organization Junta Revolucionaria (JURE). CIA officials used this camp to train other Cuban terrorists. That year, Posada led an infiltration team that carried terrorists acts against Cuba.

Mayo de 1965: The FBI reports that Posada Carriles was envolved with a plot to topple the Guatemalan government.

Junio de 1965: Un memorando desclasificado por la CIA lo ubica junto a Jorge Más Canosa en Veracruz, México, en el intento de volar un barco soviético.

 During the 60’ is linked to Alpha 66, Comandos L, Movimiento 30 de Noviembre, organizations that promote terrorists acts against Cuba.

By late 60’ Posada established himself in Venezuela.

Octubre de 1967: The CIA transfers Carriles to Venezuela, where he enters the Direction of Inteligence and Prevention Services (DISIP) and under the psudonimous of “Comisario Basilio” (Captain Basilio) he participates in the repression against Venezuelan and Latin American progressive groups. He also applies tortures and trains others.

1967-1976: He works simultaneously for the secret services of Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile and Argentina, following CIA’s orders.

1971. His list of evil deeds includes participation in plans to assassinate Cuban officials in Chile and an attempt to kill President Fidel Castro when he visited that South American country in 1971.

21 de enero de 1974: Involved in the planting of explosives in the Cuban Embassies in Argentina, Peru and Mexico.

 Julio de 1974: Bomb letters and books to several Cuban consular offices in Latin America.

 7 de noviembre de 1974: He plants bombs at the Institute of Brazilian Studies and Bolivia’s Embassy in Ecuador.

 Junio de 1975: He founds the Commercial and Industrial Research Enterprise in Venezuela to guise his terrorist activities both in the country and in the region.

 1976: He co-founds –with Orlando Bosch- the Anti-Cuban terrorist organization Comité de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas (The Committee of United Revolutionary Organizations).

 22 de abril de 1976: involved in the bombing of the Cuban Embassy in Portugal, where to Cuban diplomatic officials died.

 1ro. de julio de 1976: He plants a bomba t the Costa Rica-Cuba Cultural Center, in Costa Rica.

 9 de julio de 1976: A bomb in the luggage compartment of a Cubana Flight in Jamaica.

 10 de julio de 1976: a bomb at the Cubana Airline office in Barbados.

11 de julio de 1976: a bomb at the Air Panama offices in Colombia.

1976. The murder of two Cuban officials in Argentina in August 1976 is another line item on his resume.

4 de octubre de 1976: CORU claims the planning of a bomb against a TV channel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the Cuban film La Nueva Escuela was playingse adjudica haber colocado bomba contra un canal de televisión en San Juan, Puerto Rico, donde se proyectaba la película cubana La Nueva Escuela.

 6 de octubre de 1976: He is identified as the mastermind of an attempt against a Cuban aircraft in full flight off the coasts of Barbados where 73 persons died.

Both murderers are detained in Caracas and taken to court together with Hernán Ricardo and Freddy Lugo, the perpetrators.

Considerable documentation exists showing how Posada recruited Venezuelans Hernan Ricardo Lozano and Freddy Lugo to sabotage a Cubana Airline plane.

These mercenaries placed the bombs that exploded in-flight, a few minutes after takeoff from Barbados International Airport on October 6, 1976 and killing all 73 people on board.

In her book, "Pusimos la bomba ¿y que?" (We put the bomb…so what) Venezulean journalist Alicia Herrera gives a profile of Posada Carriles recounted by his wife at the end of the 1970s, and which describes her husband’s lack of scruples.

"When he got involved in the Barbados incident, (referring to the blowing up of the Cubana passenger plane) I knew he would be successful because the ‘poor guy’ had dedicated so much effort, with so much passion..."

Also in Venezuela, Posada created Agencia de Detectives Investigaciones Comerciales e Industriales, which was closed down when its participation on the bombing of a Cubana Airline was proven.

Due to his criminal acts, Posada was accused and incarcerated in Venezuela.

1976-1985: he awaits in jail the ruling of a delayed legal process.

 August 18 1985: During a change of guards he walks out the gates of the prison. After 15 days in Caracas, he is transferred to Aruba on board a shrimp fishing boat. Then he flies on a private aircraft to Costa Rica and finally to El Salvador. Alll these activities are CANF-CIA financed.

 At the Ilopango air base, he joins the group responsible of supplying the Nicaraguan counterrevolution. He also joins the arms traffick network, controlled by Oliver North, national security advisor of the then president of the United States Ronald Reagan.

Stay in a maximum security prison in Venezuela, since 1976 to August 18, 1985, when he escaped with the help of the Florida based Cuban American National Foundation.

He then went to El Salvador, where he joined for two years the Military Base of llopango, as adviser to the Contras in the illegal fight against the Nicaraguan government.

Octubre 1986: UIT the Irán-Contras scandal, he links with a group of Venezuelan trainers who adviced the Salvadorian police on counterguerrila and interrogatory techniques.

 In 1987 he moved to Guatemala where was hired as security and safety advisor of Teléfonos de Guatemala (GUATEL).

1992: the CANF creates a “military wing” responsible for the arrangement and execution of terrorist actions against Cuba and its leaders. Guillermo e Ignacio Novo Sampoll and Luis Posada Carriles have an active participation.

 1993: the CANF-sponsored group becomes known as Cuban Nacional Front.

In February 1990 was target of a bomb attempt in Guatemala. The Cuban American National Foundation, a well know terrorist organization paid for his hospital bills.

After his recovery Posada moved in to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where  Rafael Hernández Nodarse, a Cuban long time terrorism-supporter, paid Posada’s expenditures.

Posada was involved in weapons trafficking in Central America.

In the 90’ Posada attempted to kill President Fidel Castro several times.

1994: In Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Posada Carriles arranges a failed attempt against the Cuban President when the alter was touring the historic sites of the City with Nobel Prize award winner Gabriel García Márquez.

 1994-1997: He works on the recruitment of mercenaries from Central American countries to carry out terrorists acts against different targets in Cuba, specially the tourist sector.

 July 12 & 13, 1998: In an interview with The New York Times, he claims the responsibility for the bomb attacks on Cuban tourist facilities and states that they are CANF-financed.

1994: an attempt against President Castro  in Honduras, where he was awaited for President Carlos Roberto Reina’s inauguration, and an infiltration of arms in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, for another attempt to assassinate Cuban President during the 4th Ibero American Summit in January 1994

In June 1995, Posada traveled to Costa Rica to dinamite a Cuban ship and on December of this very same year along with Ramón Orozco Crespo, put some explosive to a Cuban office.

In 1995, in complicity with son Honduran military, Posada allocated 41 bombs in Honduras, according to Doctor Ramón Custodio, Head of the Honduras Comité of Human Rights.

At the end of 1996 he put the final touches on a series of terrorist actions to be carried out in Cuba, traveling between El Salvador and Guatemala with a Salvadoran passport under the name Francisco Rodriguez Mena and
acquired in 1995.

In 1997, Posada together with the late Arnaldo Monzón Plasencia, prepared an attempt to kill President Fidel Castro during the VII Iberoamerican Summit in  Isla Margarita, Venezuela. Also involved were Nelly Rojas, Pedro Morales y Francisco Pimentel.

In 1997 Posada masterminded the planting of several bombs that explode in Hotels and restaurants in Havana, Cuba. With the support of the Cuban American Foundation, Posada made a terrorist cell in Central America, recruiting mercenaries from El Salvador and Guatemala. Posada later recognized to the The New York Times, his involvement on this operations.

The detonations of explosives in Cuba started in April 1997. Chávez Abarca y Otto René Rodríguez Llerena were the persons instructed by Posadas, whom carried on the explosion and were apprehended by Cuban authorities. They are in jail in Cuba, were they confessed their crimes and Posada’s involvements.

8 bombs exploded out of 14 that were set to. 4 were deactivated without detonated, and 2 were taken by Cuban security officials when a Posada’s recruit were trying to pass them through the airport. The bombing caused the death of one Italian citizen, several people were hurt and thousands of dollars were accounted as losses.

This Posada’s plan also included the detonations of explosives in Cubans offices in Bahamas and Mexico.

On November 15, 1997, the Miami Herald ran an extensive article resulting from an investigative report about the bombs planted in Cuban hotels and the connection of those events with a band of Salvadoran criminals known for bank robberies, house break-ins and car thefts.

The Herald concluded that Luis Posada Carriles was the "brains" behind those activities, for which he collected 15,000 dollars in Miami.

In March, 1998, Cuban authorities detained the Guatemalans, Maria Elena Gonzalez Meza de Fernandez, Nader Kamal Musalam Barakat, also known as Miguel Abraham Herrera Morales, and Jazid Ivan Fernandez Mendoza, linked to bomb explosions in Havana during 1997.

The three Guatemalans, along with the Salvadorans Ernesto Raul Cruz Leon and Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerna, also detained in Cuba, were part of a network of Central American mercenaries hired by Posada Carriles and financed
by the Cuban American National Foundation.

In July 1998, Posada Carriles told the New York Times that he received 200,000 from then president of the Cuban American National Foundation, Jorge Mas Canosa, to carry out terrorist actions in Cuba.

Alter this terrorists acts, Posada was involved in a new attempt to kill President Fidel Castro during his visit to Dominican Republic in 1988.

Also in 1988, Posada attempted to put a bomb to a Cubana Airline plane on the route Central America-La Habana.

Between August and October of 1999, Posada with fake identities traveled to Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama to get ready for the attempt to kill President Castro. In Costa Rica he received financial support and the way to introduce explosives, such as C- 4 in Panama.

In 2000, Posada was in Panama trying to kill President Fidel Castro and hundreds of Panamanian students presents at a lecture President Castro was delivered, as part of his program on the X Iberoamerican Summit.

His anti-Cuban acts came to a temporary halt when he was jailed in Panama on November 17, 2000 after Cuban President Fidel Castro denounced plans to assassinate him with explosives at Panama University.

Assisting Posada Carriles with the foiled plot that could have killed several hundred people were Guillermo Novo Sampol, Pedro Remon and Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo.

Global justice is mourning when on August 2004, outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned Luis Posada Carriles, one of the cruelest terrorists of the Western Hemisphere. The notorious quartet was just given pardons by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, who in doing so, became herself an accomplice of these dangerous terrorists.

August 26, 2004: the then President of Panamá, , Mireya Moscoso, pardoned the tour terrorists. Early the next morning, under extreme security measures, they are taken out of El Renacer penitentiary and shuttle to Albrook airport where they borraded an airplain for Tocumen airport..

 There they take a private jet headed for Honduras where Posada Carriles gets off whereas the rest continue to Miami, USA.

 March 2005: Posada enters the US territory and his lawyers say he is seeking political asylum.

 April 11, 2005: During the first of a number of TV special appearances, Cuban President denounces the US government’s complicity with terrorism as he reveals that they are trying to Project Posada Carriles in that country. News from 10 days earlier say that the international terrorist is in Miami amidst efforts to grant him asylum.

 April 17, 2005: Fidel warns that they could dissappear Posada Carriles  podrían in Estados Unidos. He urges them not to kill him or poison him, or do not say he died of a Herat attack or brain stroke, we are willing to send physicians to take care of his health so that he tells us what he knows and go to court, said the Cuban President.

 May 1, 2005: During his speech, Fidel provides new evidences on the presence of Posada Carriles in Miami and the explicit rejection of the White House to be consequent with the amount of evidences.

 May 4, 2005: Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, Alí Rodríguez, urges the US to comply with the agreements and extradite Luis Posada Carriles to be taken to court in Caracas.

 May 10: On behalf of credibility, consistency and justice, the US administration must arrest and extradite terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, status The New York Times in an editorial.

 May 11: The Cuban President quotes an FBI’s report admitting that terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch are linked to the murder of former Chile’s Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and hi sUS born secretary in 1976.

 May 12 :  Fidel accuses the US government of concealing information because according to a document read by the president during its special appearance that day one day, alter the blasting of a Cuban aircraft off the Coast of Barbados, both the FBI and the CIA were knowledgeable of the perpetrators and the masterminds of the criminal act.

 May 13. Venezuela officially demands the extradition of Posada Carriles. At a press conference in Washington relatives of the victims of terrorism, academicians, lawyers and social and religious leaders in the United States demands the government of that country to arrest and extradite Posada Carriles to Venezuela. May 15 in a article entitled The War Posada Carriles could not win to Fidel Castro, the El Nuevo Herald, ascertains that this terrorist is defeated.

 May 17, 2005: More than 1.2 million Havana dwellers parade in March of the Combatant People in front of the US Interest Section to demand the cease of terrorism and justice. This is a march for life and peace, or our people and the brotherly people of the United States, states Fidel shortly before the landmark protest began.

 Federal agents arrest Posada Carriles and take him to a South Florida detention center where migration detenees are concentrated. The Internal Security Department says the detained situation will be analyzed and that they will communicate the next step in 48 hrs

 Hours earlier, the criminal had offered a press conference where he confirmed his request for political asylum to the Bush Administration but shortly later, Eduardo Soto, the terrorist’s lawyer, said the former had withdraw the request and abandon the US territory.

 May 18: Fidel calls upon the progressive forces of the world to demand the United Sates to hand over Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela to be taken to court there.

Venezuela is requesting his extraditions for the crimes commited in that countries, from where he escaped in 1985.

In April 2005, Cuban President Fidel Castro denounced the presence of Posada Carriles in United States, where he was publicly asking for political asylum. After a month there, US authorities were forced to detained Posada.

Fidel Castro has repeatedly renounced Cuba's right to try Posada and has instead argued that he should be turned over to Venezuela or an international tribunal.

Venezuela's vice President gave assurances that if the United States hands Posada over to Venezuela, he will not be turned over to Cuba.

Cuban President Fidel Castro said on may 19, that ``The goal of the United States government is to protect him (Posada Carriles) , to keep protecting him and prevent (him) from going to court,'' said Castro, who for several weeks had repeatedly decried Posada's presence in Miami and what he said was the U.S. government's failure to hold him.