In statements to Prensa Latina, the intellectual from the South American country expressed his “votes of success” for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of relations between Cuba and the first four independent Caribbean states: Jamaica, Guyana, Barbuda and Trinidad and Tobago.
“I also hope – he added in his Internet message to this news agency – that Caricom will adopt UN General Assembly Resolution 60/147 in defense of human rights (New York, December 16, 2005)”.
The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, arrived today for an official visit to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the first stop on a tour of the Caribbean that includes Grenada and Barbados, the latter country set to host the Caricom Summit becomes.
St. Vincent’s main authorities, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and Governor General Susan Dougan, welcomed the president of the largest of the Antilles, who was sacked in Havana by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro.
“This visit will lead to the consolidation of excellent political relations and will allow us to advance our cooperative relations,” Díaz-Canel told Gonsalves.
They are the closest brothers we have; and we are the closest brothers you have, stressed the Cuban head of state, who is visiting this nation, which consists of some 33 islands and cays, for the first time.
Founded in 1973, Caricom held its first Summit with Cuba in 2002 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the largest of the Antilles and these Caribbean nations.
The organization consists of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Martín Almada, who revealed to the world the archives of the United States’ repressive Condor Plan against Latin America in 1992, received the 2002 Alternative Nobel Prize from the Swedish Right Livelihood Foundation.
Also a lawyer, educator, and member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Lawyers, he earned that alternative distinction to the Nobel Prize for his services as a human rights defender after its creators refused in 1980 to give their traditional distinction to figures distinguished by these other kinds of contributions .
The so-called “Terror Archives” uncovered by Almada in the 1990s are part of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” collection due to their exceptional legal-historical value.
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