HAVANA -- A Salvadoran accused of six bomb attacks in Cuba will go on trial here next week and could face the death penalty, Cuban authorities said Wednesday.

Ernesto Cruz Leon, 27, will go on trial Monday on charges he planted bombs in tourist hotels and restaurants in Havana during the summer and fall of 1997.

Prosecutors have argued that Cruz Leon should be executed by a firing squad.

Prensa Latina, Cuba's official news agency, reported that the other suspect in the bombings, Otto Rene Rodriguez Llerena, 40, will be tried on March 15. The public prosecutor is seeking a life sentence for Rodriguez Llerena.

Cuban officials have charged that the attacks were organized from Miami by the anti-Castro Cuban American National Foundation. The foundation has denied any ties to the incidents.

According to a confession broadcast on Cuban television several days after Cruz Leon's September 1997 arrest, the Salvadoran said the attacks were intended to ``sow panic among tourists.''

He was to be paid $4,500 for each explosion, he said.

One of the bombings attributed to Leon occurred in the hall of a Havana hotel and killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo, 32, on Sept. 4, 1997.

Leon was arrested later the same day, shortly after allegedly installing a bomb at the renowned restaurant La Bodeguita del Medio.