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New Volumes of Cuban Book on Human Rights

Havana, Mar 15 (Prensa Latina) Two new chapters of the book Cuba and Human Rights are the latest contribution to the effort against lies and deceits, President of the Cuban Parliament Ricardo Alarcon stated here on Tuesday.

One of the volumes addresses US policies towards Cuba by George W. Bush's administration, while the other deals with the strengthening of the economic, commercial and financial blockade Washington has maintained versus Cuba for more than 40 years.

The volumes were launched in the former nursery school Le Van Than, target of a sabotage that jeopardized the life of 570 children and 156 workers on May 8, 1980.

"Very few places are better than this, the target of one of the most abominable terrorist actions against our people, to present these books citing evidence of the US's long history of violence against Cuba and its desire to overthrow the Cuban Revolution," said Alarcon.

As part of their moral double standard, Washington makes tremendous effort to condemn Cuba at the UN Commission on Human Rights, the Parliament leader recalled.

"They are trying to find someone unscrupulous enough to do the dirty work for them and present an anti-Cuban document in Geneva, but as far as we know, they have found no one," he added.

If there is a place in Cuba where human rights are violated, it is the naval base of Guantanamo, "a portion of our territory seized, now a prison and the scene of who knows what terrible tortures," he went on.

Juana Garcia, former educator of the nursery school, also spoke during the presentation of the two latest chapters of the book, published by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

That not one child died that day, she recalled, was due to the response of the firemen, the police, the authorities of the territory, the neighbors and a group of students in a secondary school nearby.

"I don't know how the US administrations dare to accuse Cuba of promoting terrorism, when the truth is they are the parents and grandparents of such horrendous crimes as that they were about to commit here 25 years ago," she stated.

The first of the five volumes of the collection Cuba and Human Rights was presented a few days ago.

Of the final two pending, one deals with the naval base of Guantanamo, and the other with the Cuban democratic system and Cuba's efforts to build a fairer, more participative, equitable and solidarity-based society.

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