Castro Announces ConspiracyCuban President Fidel Castro said here Friday that terrorists were planning to assassinate him at the Ibero-American summit in Panama City.At a press conference in the Caesar Park Hotel, where he was staying, Castro said the conspiracy against him has been financed, plotted and directed by a US-based opposition group, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF). Castro said the group is led by a Cuban named Luis Posada Carriles, and that the group is already in Panama, bringing in weapons and explosives. Posada, who arrived in Panama on November 5 with a forged passport, is also being blamed for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airplane, killing 76 people. Panamanian authorities have been investigating the alleged assassination plot against Castro, Panama's intelligence agency chief, Carlos Quintero Luna, said, and the authorities have distributed Posada's pictures around the country. According to Cuban authorities, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Florida-based anti-Castro group have planned more than 600 assassinations of the Cuban leader since he came into power 40 years ago. Castro arrived in Panama City on Friday for the 10th Ibero-American summit. The summit, hosted by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, will focus on "Childhood and Adolescence in Latin America." Twenty-three heads of state and governments from Latin America are participating in the summit on Friday and Saturday in Panama City. |
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