MIAMI, April 28 (UPI) -- Orlando Bosch, an exiled Cuban militant, has died of undisclosed causes at age 84 in Miami, family friend Pedro Corzo said.
Corzo told The Miami Herald that Bosch's death came after a long hospital stay where Bosch "faced a long and painful illness."
Bosch was charged and then acquitted in the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976. In an autobiography published in 2010, Bosch said he "categorically had no responsibility whatsoever in this act of sabotage."
In a 2005 interview, Bosch said details on the jetliner bombing would be released after his death.
Bosch, a pediatrician, gave up his medical practice to pursue the armed struggle against former Cuban political leader Fidel Castro.
He eventually went into exile in South Florida.
Bosch was born in Potrerillo, about 150 miles east of Havana, on Aug. 18, 1926. His father was a police officer who later opened a successful restaurant in Potrerillo. His mother was a teacher.
Bosch moved to Havana in 1946 to enroll at the University of Havana's medical school.
His second wife, Adriana, and his children from his two marriages, Karen, Lourdes, Myriam, Orlando, Vivian and William, and five grandchildren survive him.
