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Economic blockade and the imprisonment of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters
‘arbitrary and as one of the most outrageous violations of individual rights’.
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The economic blockade of the United States against Cuba and the imprisonment of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in the U.S. were described in Brasilia as arbitrary and as one of the most outrageous violations of individual rights.
After a debate about the Cuban situation, the Human Rights and Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil unanimously passed a motion demanding U.S. President Barack Obama the immediate release of the five Cubans who have been imprisoned for almost 13 years now for screening Florida-based anti-Cuba groups in an effort to prevent criminal acts against the Cuban people.
The document also demands the end of Washington’s economic, financial and commercial blockade against Cuba.
Prensa Latina said the debate was promoted by the Cuba-Brazil Parliamentary Front and the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) as part of a series of seminars taking place in different cities of the country.
The motion was presented by the Jose Marti Cultural Association of Rio Grande do Sul following the Obama’s recent visit to that country, in March. Senator Vanessa Grazziotin, president of the Cuba-Brazil Parliamentary Front, criticized the distortion of the Cuban reality by the so-called Brazilian mainstream media.
Deputy Fernando Ferro, the Front’s first vice president, pointed out that the political changes underway in Latin America are inspired by the Cuban Revolution, while Senator Lidice da Mata, second vice president, described the U.S. siege against Cuba as mean.
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