Luis Posada Carriles, 76

Explosives expert, trained by the CIA in the 1960s. Accused in the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people. Tried in Venezuela, he was acquited and escaped from jail in 1985 while awaiting a re-trial. He has denied any involvement in the bombing. Both Cuba and Venezuela asked for his extradition while he was jailed in Panama. He turned up in El Salvador after his prison escape, working with a group linked to White House aide Col. Oliver North that sent supplies to contra rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. He claimed and then denied responsibility for a string of terrorist bombings in Havana in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and wounded more than a dozen others. He served in the security forces of anticommunist governments in Guatemala and Venezuela and survived a 1990 murder attempt in Guatemala City.

Gaspar Jiménez, 69

A former Miami chauffeur, served six years in a Mexican prison for the attempted kidnapping of Cuban diplomat Daniel Ferrer and the death of a man accompanying him -- described as either a bodyguard or a fishing expert -- in Mérida, Mexico in 1976. He escaped from prison and returned to the United States. He was also indicted -- though the charges were later dismissed -- for the 1976 bombing that blew off the legs of Miami radio personality Emilio Milián.

Pedro Remón, 59

A former Miami truck salesman, he was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. federal prison in 1986 after pleading guilty to the 1980 attempted murder of a former Cuban diplomat at the United Nations, Félix García Rodríguez, He was also linked to an attempted bombing of Cuba's U.N. Mission in 1979.

Guillermo Novo, 61

A former radio advertising salesman in New Jersey who later moved to Miami, he was convicted of perjury in the 1976 car-bombing murder of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and an American aide in Washington, D.C. The verdict was overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted in a second trial. He was arrested in a 1964 bazooka attack on the U.N. headquarters during a speech by Ernesto ''Ché'' Guevara, but the charges were later dropped.

SOURCE: Herald archives