Cubans in Colombia demand the closure of the US Naval Base in Guantánamo

Through a statement, the organization stressed that this enclave was created in 1903 and that it remains despite its illegal origin and against the will of the heroic Cuban people.

For the collective, this action, together with the lifting of the inhuman, ruthless and genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the White House to Cuba (increased, despite the pandemic), would mean an important step forward in respect for human rights and the normalization of relations between the two nations.

«The Base of Guantánamo we consider it illegal, since the United States imposed it under duress, threat and without good faith, after the US military occupation of Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century, after Washington intervened dirty and opportunistically in the war of liberation against Spain and frustrate Cuban independence,” he emphasized.

The Association assured that the prison located in that facility military, was created in 2002 by President George Walker Bush to detain suspected terrorists, after the attacks of September 11, 2011.

«Since its foundation it has been the object of investigations and repeated complaints about inhuman treatment of inmates”, he warned.

He recalled that long before arriving at the White House, President Joe Biden expressed during the Munich Security Conference (Germany) that this prison would be closed, but, unfortunately, this has not happened so far.

Twenty years after the arrival of the first prisoners at the Guantánamo Naval Base, a Cuban territory illegally occupied by the United States, UN experts criticized this Monday the arbitrary detentions without trial, the torture perpetrated in that military enclave and the impunity of those responsible for these abuses.

«Guantánamo is a site of unprecedented notoriety, defined for the systematic use of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment against hundreds of men taken there and deprived of their most fundamental rights”, they denounced.

They highlighted how the legal limbo at the Naval Base highlights the failures of the judicial system of United States to protect human rights and uphold the rule of law.

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