Cuba continues to demand the end of the seizure of a portion of its territory
Alongside the battle for the end of the US blockade against Cuba , the claim for the return of the illegally occupied territory by Guantánamo Naval Base
Representatives from Cuba and from other countries, organizations and foreign entities, including governments, have denounced the presence in the Cuban territory of the military enclave, which , for greater offense at the International Law became a center of detention and torture of prisoners accused of terrorism by Washington.
Almost constant and through different channels initiative geared to mobilize the public opinion worldwide come up to raise awareness around Cuba’s claims, keep adding political personalities of arts and culture, trade union and solidarity movements and diverse institutions…
A valuable contribution to this cause is the documentary entitled All Guantánamo is ours by Colombian journalist and writer Hernando Calvo Ospina, recently premiered in that eastern city and in Caimanera.
In statements to the Cuban press, the also President of the France- Cuba National Association, affirmed that from its first presentation abroad the film exceeded expectations, due to the positive impact on the audience, especially in the European Parliament.
The topic of the illegal occupation of 117 km of Guantánamo bay by the US government, the interviewees are people who retell the history of the base in a simple way, but with solid arguments.
France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Argentina, Spain, Canary Island and Turkey are some of the places where this film has been presented, it was available in 12 languages, among them English, Italian, Russian, Basque and Turkish.
As colleague Arleen Rodríguez Derivet said “the interesting of this is that it isn’t a film made by locals born there, not even in Cuba.”
According to the filmmaker “the documentary is not intended for the Cuban people, but for those who think that Cuba ends in Santiago, for that public unaware that in Cuba there is a place like Guantanamo bordered on an American military base. Reading about it is different from watching it from the perspective of those who are living there.”
In equal proportion, touching and shocking was for more than 200 activists and personalities from 27 countries the 4th International Seminar of Peace and for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, in which for the first time the World Peace Council convened out of a capital city.
The main goal of the event was to show the negative impact of these enclaves and summon the international public opinion in the claim for their abolition, and that’s expressed in the final declaration and in the agreements made public in Caimanera itself, a few kilometers away from the US Naval Base, the oldest maintained by this country off its borders, for which Cuba does not receive rent revenue since 1960.
As another initiative with similar objectives, in the social media there is a blog of the Ministry of Communications denouncing the presence of that military enclave, against the sovereign will of the Cubans.
In the Reflejos, platform, through the website: http://fuera.cubava.cu/ a digital portal can be entered, where articles which elucidate how the United States seized Caimanera in 1903 and how the base became a focus of tension, provocation and aggression after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Also the murder of Cuban soldiers in charge of the protection of the border perimeter, fishermen and workers in the naval base.