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World Peace Council Urges US to Close Guantanamo Base

CUBA, May 5, 2010. The President of the World Peace Council Maria do Socorro Gomes slammed the US government for maintaining in Cuba the Guantanamo naval base against the will of the Cuban people.

In a Seminar on Peace for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases underway in Guantanamo, Socorro Gomes (Brazil) said the Gitmo base is an insult to the Cuban people and it should be closed.

Socorro Gomes demanded the unconditional return of the territory that was seized by the US through the Platt Amendment in 1903.

“The naval base in Guantanamo, turned into jail and center of tortures for eight years, reaffirms the hypocritical nature and the double standard of US policy, which has no moral to talk of democracy and human rights,” she said in the seminar attended by some 80 delegates from 2 countries.

According to Gomes the establishment of new bases in Honduras, Panama and Colombia proves the objective of those centers is to overthrow revolutionary movements and governments, and not the struggle against terrorism and drug trafficking, as Washington has put forward, Prensa Latina reported.

The Brazilian delegate demanded Washington to lift the economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba and expressed her support of the release from jail of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in that country. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

 

 

 

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