Havana, 15 Jun (Prensa Latina) Nobel literature prizewinner (98), Portuguese author José Saramago, who is visiting Cuba at the invitation of the culture minister, reaffirmed that extradition of Cuban-Venezuelan terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela is a fundamental act of justice.
A terrorist must be judged for his crimes, he emphasized.
The author of Essay on Lucidity recently signed a declaration delivered to the US Embassy in Portugal by important intellectuals in his country protesting US protection of an assassin who has confessed to blowing up a Cuban civilian airplane killing 73 people in 1976.
The famous author was also among five other Nobel prizewinners and more than four thousand world intellectuals who called for a halt to a new maneuver against Cuba and denounced the dirty politics of the United States in the UN Human Rights Commission.
Saramago, a very vital 82, will present in Havana a new edition of his polemic The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, in which he presents a very human Jesus.
The writer´s literary trajectory has been characterized by reflections on history, politics and culture, often controversial, which he said are not "divinely inspired", but almost always stimulated by non-literary events that are set free in his narratives. "Or sometimes by optical illusion," he remarked.
Saramago commented on the situation in Europe and the alarming, to him, increase of privatization in all areas, and predicted this will eventually lead to people asking what purpose the State serves.
Responding to a question from Prensa Latina on his perception of the realities of Latin America -which social-political pulse he follows closely- the author observed that the region is making positive movement after a long period of crisis and lethargy, and particularly noted the sufferings of the indigenous communities, victims of slow genocide and limitless degradation.
While in Cuba, the famous author will meet with students and professors at the University of Havana, as well as with Cuban readers in the traditional "Book Saturday" after presenting his Gospel According to Jesus Christ.