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CUBAN exile groups said they regretted the death of the Italian tourist but that the bombings were justified.
The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), the most powerful Cuban-exile political organisation, said the incidents showed domestic opposition was growing.
Spokeswoman Ninoska Perez said that despite the death, the CANF stood by its statement last month that it supported any means to oust Castro.
"We greatly regret the loss of life, but the Cuban people have the right to fight for their freedom," she said.
She said the Cuban government wanted to blame the bombings on the Miami exiles in order to deflect attention from internal dissent and the failings of the Cuban security forces.
The bombings "are obviously a message being sent to tourists, as tourism is the main source of income for the dictatorship," she said.
A leader of Alpha 66, a Miami-based paramilitary group which had claimed responsibility for earlier bomb attacks in the Capital, said his organisation was not directly involved in these bombings but it backed any efforts to get rid of Castro.
"These are the actions of people who want to end tyranny. We are sorry for the death, but Fidel Castro is to blame," Alpha 66 secretary general Andres Nacario Sargen said.
Alpha 66, whose ranks include veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 and young Cuban-Americans, trains regularly in the Florida Everglades in apparent immunity from U.S. law which is supposed to bar it from undertaking any military action against Cuba.