Venezuela hands evidence against Cuban exile to U.S.

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela on Friday supplied the United States with extradition evidence it says implicates a Cuban exile sought by Caracas in the blowing up a Cuban airliner nearly three decades ago. In a case that has strained already tense ties, President Hugo Chavez's government is demanding the United States extradite Luis Posada Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and ex-CIA collaborator who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985. The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington said it delivered documents to the State Department that demonstrate "probable cause" to accuse Posada of masterminding the 1976 bombing of the Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.

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