Havana, July 11 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex) today rejected the entry of a nuclear-powered submarine into the United States naval base located in eastern Guantanamo Bay.
A foreign ministry statement explained that the submarine remained there from July 5 to 8, constituting a provocative escalation by the United States, who’s political or strategic motives are unknown.
«The presence there of a nuclear submarine at this time forces us to question what the military reason is for the fact in this peaceful region of the world, against what objective is it directed and what strategic purpose is it pursuing,» the statement underlined.
The text recalled that the 33 nations of the region are signatories to the Declaration of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, signed in Havana in January 2014.
He also stressed that, as a threat to the sovereignty and interests of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples, the United States has established more than 70 military bases in the region, with varying degrees of permanence, plus other operational forms of military presence.
Similarly, US military commanders have made public reference in recent times to the intention of using their military power to secure their ambitions over the natural resources of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Minrex, when reiterating the rejection of the US military presence in Cuba and the demand that the illegally occupied territory in the province of Guantanamo be returned, warned of the danger posed by the presence and circulation of nuclear submarines of the United States armed forces in the nearby Caribbean region.
As is known, the US military base has occupied that 117 square kilometer territory for 121 years, against the will of the Cuban people and as a colonial remnant of the illegitimate military occupation of our country that began in 1898, after the expansionist intervention in the war of independence of the Cubans against the Spanish colonial power.
It is an enclave that for many years has lacked strategic or military importance for the United States.
Its permanence only responds to the political objective of trying to violate the sovereign rights of Cuba, while the practical utility of that enclave in recent decades is reduced to serving as a center for the detention, torture and systematic violation of the human rights of dozens of citizens from various countries.
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