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Luis Posada Carriles

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• ... that one-time CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles twice escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he faced trial for the bombing of Cubana flight 455?
  • ALT1:... that when Luis Posada Carriles was arrested in Panama for plotting the assassination of Cuban President Fidel Castro, $200,000 were raised to fund his defense through efforts on Miami radio?
  • ALT2:... that while facing trial in Venezuela for the bombing of Cubana flight 455, Luis Posada Carriles escaped to Chile, expecting to be welcomed, but was quickly returned to Venezuelan custody?

• Reviewed: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan
• Comment: Further hook suggestions are welcome; there's a lot of material here.

Improved to Good Article status by Vanamonde93 (talk). Self-nominated at 08:07, 8 August 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: It's easier to verify your hook if you include the sources on the DYK page, as recommended. Catrìona (talk) 16:08, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

• Approving all three hooks, but I prefer the original. Catrìona (talk) 16:08, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review. To be quite honest, I find it tiresome to put sources here, as I frequently patch together hooks from a number of different places in the article; and the reviewer is required to check that it's in the article and sourced therein anyhow, so I've never bothered. Vanamonde (talk) 18:06, 11 August 2018 (UTC)