PANAMA CITY - Panama could request the extradition from the United States of exiled anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles after overturning a pardon that freed him from jail, a Panamanian official said on Wednesday.
Panama's Supreme Court ruled this week that a 2004 pardon of Posada and three other Cubans involved in a plot to blow up former Cuban President Fidel Castro at a summit in Panama was unconstitutional.
Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro said the Panamanian government would request their extradition if the judiciary asked it to.
"If it is requested by the judicial branch, we will start the process, whether it be extradition or another process, depending on what (they) ask for," he told reporters.
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