Cuban dissident Luis Posada Carilles is again attracting media attention with the release of a new book by a US-based Guyanese journalist which gives fresh insight into his terrorist activities as his trial in an El Paso federal court draws near.

Luis Posada Carilles

Dhanraj Bhagwandin’s book From Cubana to Santrina trails Bambi, one of Posada’s aliases, from Cuba to Venezuela and then to El Salvador where he was involved in drugs, prostitution and a death squad, a press release from the Caribbean New York Press said.

Posada coordinated num-erous plots to kill former Cuba President Fidel Castro and also helped the Contras in Nicaragua and he has long been fingered in the bombing of a Cuban airline off the coast of Barbados in 1973 which killed 73 people including 11 Guyanese. Posada had been for nearly three decades until 2005 when he sneaked into the United States.

Bhagwandin’s book is based on interviews with an ex federal US drug enforcement agent and classified documents which reveals the genesis of the Cubana plot and Posada’s motives. The Cubana explosion was the first act of terrorism in the Caribbean and Latin America.