EL PASO, Texas, June 13 (UPI) -- A lawyer for an exiled Cuban militant asked an immigration judge in Texas Monday to free his client on bond and transfer the case to South Florida.
The case involves Luis Posada Carriles, "a violent anti-Castro activist who was involved with the CIA and covert U.S. operations" from the 1960s through the 1980s, the Boston Globe reported.
Posada Carriles escaped from prison in Venezuela in 1985 during a prosecution in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane in Barbados that killed 73 people. The Venezuelan government has asked the State Department to establish probable cause for Posada Carriles's detention for murder, the Globe said.
Posada Carriles told The Miami Herald he believed he would be given asylum in the United States, and that Fidel Castro's agents are trying to kill him.
The immigration judge did not rule on either request immediately.
