Brazilian Parliamentarians call Barack Obama lift embargo against Cuba  |
| Brasilia, March 18 (RHC) .- Brazilian Senators and MPs demanded that the U.S. president, Barack Obama, lifting the economic blockade against Cuba and free the five anti-terrorists unfairly imprisoned Island in U.S. jails since 1998 . in plenary sessions of the Federal Senate and Chamber of Deputies, Brazilian legislators agreed that such claims should appear on the agenda to discuss with the head of the White House during his visit this weekend to the South American nation. Senator for the Communist Party of Brazil, Vanessa Grazziotin, recalled that last year the Chamber of Deputies passed a motion calling on Washington to end the blockade against Cuba and to free Rene Gonzalez Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino and Fernando Gonzalez. also representatives of Cuba solidarity groups in Brazil sent a letter to the president, Dilma Rousseff to complains to Obama during his visit to Rio de Janeiro, ending the embargo against the Caribbean nation. The letter, entitled Action for truth and justice, is signed by more than 700 people on a personal basis, more than 60 social organizations, unions, student, popular and supportive, as well as by 43 State lawmakers Rio Grande do Sul President José Cultural Association Martà de Rio Grande do Sul, Ricardo Haesbaert, said he very much encouraged by the conversation of nearly an hour they held him and the president of the Deliberative Council of the entity, Vania Barbosa, special adviser to the president. |
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