[Marxism] Cuba repeats demand: "U.S. out of Guantanamo!"

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the second time in a week, Cuban leaders have voiced a demand which, 
although a nominal demand for 50 years, has been on the back burner for most of 
that time: "U.S. Out!"

Jan. 23:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_fidel_castro

In an interview published Thursday by the Russian news agency Itar-Tass, Raul 
Castro said Cuba will insist that the Obama administration close the entire 
U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay — not just the prison camp for suspected 
terrorists.

"We demand that not only this prison but also this base should be closed and 
the territory it occupies should be returned to its legal owner — the Cuban 
people," Castro was quoted as saying, repeating a long-standing demand.

Jan. 28:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84011&sectionid=351020702

Cuba has called for the US naval base in Guantanamo to be returned to its 
territory and wanted a UN torture inspector to visit the island.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Wednesday said that US President 
Barack Obama's decision to close within a year the "war on terror" prison at 
the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay was positive but insufficient.

Cuba expects that Obama's decision to close down the Guantanamo prison camp "is 
followed by the decision to close down the base and return that territory to 
the Cubans," a base that the United States "really does not need for its 
security and defense,” Perez Roque said.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com


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