The Venezuelan government yesterday formally protested the U.S. decision not to hand over Cuban-born terror suspect Luis Posada Carriles and said it would continue to seek his extradition. The Venezuelan Embassy in Washington said in a press statement that it sent a note to the U.S. State Department, protesting the US decision not to put Posada Carriles under preventive detention. He is currently in U.S. custody on unrelated immigration charges. The embassy said it would present more information to Washington to back up its extradition request. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said last month that Caracas could cut diplomatic ties with the U.S. unless Posada was turned over to Venezuela to face trial.