the even try to do mitigate with posada carriles by telephone -- communicate with posada carriles byephone. this was enough for venezuela to charge him with 73 counts of first-degree murder. amy: we don't have much time, and i want to ask you, so that happened, 73 people dead. how did he end up dying a free man in miami this past wednesday? >> amy, venezuela -- well, he escaped from jail in panama where he was being held for trying to bomb and auditorium full of people. jail inr getting out of panama, receiving a pardon, he came to the united states to miami host of venezuela presented a request for extradition. the united states simply refused to extradite him. instead of charge to with violating immigration law, lying on immigration forms, for which it was ultimately equated, even though there were omissions by posada carriles that he had masterminded a string of bombings in havana that resulted in the murder of an italian businessman. and he lied about those on immigration forms. it even though there was of that, including a taped confession of posada carriles to correspondent," n

refused demands by cuba and venezuela for posada carriles' extradition to face terrorism charges. this is peter kornbluh, director of the national security archive, speaking about luis posada carriles on d democracy now! years ago. >> in october 1976, according to cia and fbi declassifieied secrt docucuments, he was onone of tho masterminds of one of the most heinous acts of international terrorism in the westetern here- 73 men,re, killingng women, and children on october 6, 19 76. he has a long history beyond that. he went on to orchestrate a series of hotel bombings in cuba and the late 1990's. he was arrested in panama in november 2000 with a car full of d4 explosives and dynamite in an effort to blow it could all caps joe during an american summit. the list goes on and on and on. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. the national football league has announced it will f