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Communists from around the World Criticize the European Parliament

CUBA. Mar 15, 2010. -  Members of communist and labor groups from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America accused the European Parliament (EP) in Lisbon, Portugal, of lacking moral authority to criticize Cuba.

Participants in the International Meeting of Communist and Labor Parties –which was attended by Dennys Guzmán, director of Cuba’s Center for European Studies- issued a declaration in rejection of the resolution against the island approved by the EP.

"The governments, institutions -among them the Euro-chamber-, and the mass media, which have remained silent before extrajudicial executions, lack the authority to criticize Cuba", underlines the document", the Prensa Latina news agency reports.

"We’re talking about the same people that don’t condemn the participation of European soldiers in wars of conquest and shut up in the face of the tragedy of millions of unemployed people in countries of the region,” stresses the document.

The text dennounces the defamatory campaign carried out against the Caribbean island by powerful media outlets, particularly European.

It highlights the example of Cuba, which over the last five decades has saved the lives of millions of men, women and children in a large number of countries and regions in the world, and that today is a paradigmatic example in Haiti.

The resolution criticizes the media campaign against Cuba, which conceals the unjust incarceration in US jails of five antiterrorists from this country since 1998.

It refers to Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, the imprisonment of which has been described as arbitrary and unfair by the United Nations. (Cubaminrex - acn)

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