This terrorist was acquitted on immigration fraud charged by a court in Texas in a trial that day. Describing the trial as a farce, the statement said that the Venezuelan government rejects this.

The Venezuelan government reiterated its request for him to be extradited to Venezuela for the killing of many people aboard a Cuban airliner bombed in mid-flight in 1976, it said, charging that the U.S. administration uses double standards in its international war on terror.