HAVANA – Cuba's Supreme Court has begun reviewing the modification declare of a Salvadorean Negro guilty of coercion for a program of hotel bombs in 1997.
Government website Cubadebate said the analyse of Ernesto Cruz Leon's declare began Thursday, but it did not provide info of the impact or a timetable.
Cruz metropolis confessed to planting bombs in fivesome state hotels and a edifice between July and Sept 1997 in a strategy to anxiousness absent tourists and perceive a maturity maker of income for the island.
He and man Salvadorean Otto Rene Rodriguez were sentenced to modification in 1999 for the plot, which killed an European traveler and injured 11 another people, including heptad foreigners.
It was allegedly designed and financed by Cuban-Venezuelan Luis Posada Carriles, digit of Cuba's most-wanted men. Posada Carriles is also accused in the onslaught of a state jetliner and in a program of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Earlier this assemblage Venezuela captured and extradited to state added Salvadorean venture in the hotel bombings: Francisco composer Abarca, who allegedly recruited Cruz Leon.
Cuba's property allows for top punishment, but in 2008, President Raul socialist declared that every modification sentences for ordinary criminals would be commuted and modify those guilty of coercion would hit their sentences reviewed.
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