The organization expressed its rejection on its official Facebook page: “Sixty years ago, more than forty thousand U.S. Marines invaded the Dominican Republic. The pretext at the time was to prevent the country from becoming a second Cuba.”
Casa de las Américas denounced on Thursday the agreement between the government of President Luis Abinader and the United States for the use of the Dominican air base of San Isidro and Las Américas International Airport as part of its current military deployment in the Caribbean.
The organization expressed its rejection on its official Facebook page: “Sixty years ago, more than forty thousand U.S. Marines invaded the Dominican Republic. The pretext at the time was to prevent the country from becoming a second Cuba.”
“Six decades later, President Luis Abinader shamelessly stands alongside the Secretary of War of the invading power, not to demand accountability for that abominable crime that cost the lives of thousands of his compatriots, but to facilitate the use of national territory as a base for a military offensive against our sister nation of Venezuela and against our people,” it added.
Furthermore, Casa de las Américas recalled the exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the X Summit of the Americas to be held on Dominican soil, which “aims to surrender national sovereignty, to the scorn of extraordinary figures like Juan Pablo Duarte and Máximo Gómez, and to the shame of the Dominican people.”
“The great intellectual Juan Bosch forever christened the Caribbean an imperial frontier. And several decades earlier, Martí had warned that we have a historical duty to prevent the United States from expanding into the Antilles and, with that added strength, encroaching upon our lands in the Americas,” the statement added.
“Faithful to Martí’s mandate, from the Casa de las Américas we denounce this grotesque act of submission to an Empire that, in its decline, seeks to impose the Monroe Doctrine upon us once again.”
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[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
