Also on his wish list for the last 100 days of the Democratic administration is the return of the territory of the Guantanamo naval base, a colonial possession of Washington for more than 120 years.
by OnCuba Staff October 14, 2024 in Cuba-USA
The famous American filmmaker and activist Michael Moore asked Joe Biden on Saturday, in his last 100 days in office as president, to lift the embargo on Cuba and close the illegal torture base at Guantanamo.
The author of Bowling for Columbine documentary with which he won several renowned awards, including the Oscar in 2003, listed in his blog 13 wishes to happen during the last 100 days of President Biden in the White House.
In the fourth of these wishes is the closure of the U.S. military’s “Guantanamo Bay torture base”, which he called “a dark stain on America’s standing in the world”.
“It is time for GITMO to disappear,” demanded the director of Fahrenheit 9/11, a documentary in which he dissects the causes and consequences of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.
Moore’s fifth petition is entitled Free Cuba, Free Our Souls, in which he made it clear that “it is time to normalize all relations with Cuba, end all sanctions against Cuba, end the embargo (blockade) and fully recognize the Cuban people’s right to self-determination,” according to Prensa Latina.
The filmmaker noted that “last November, an overwhelming 187 countries gathered at the United Nations General Assembly, for the 31st time! – to demand that the United States end our six-decade trade embargo against Cuba. The only country to vote with us was… wait for it… Israel! Oh, and one nation abstained: Ukraine.”
