Cuban Activist Warns about Danger of Foreign Military Bases

The president of the Cuban Movement for Peace and the Sovereignty of Peoples, Silvio Platero, said today that it is important for the media to warn of the danger of foreign military bases in the world.

Speaking to Prensa Latina, Platero referred to the role of media and social networks in spreading the threat to peace these enclaves entail.

According to the activist, there are more than 800 US military bases and about 200 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the world.

It is vital that the world knows this danger, argued Platero, who participates in the National Council of the Cuban Association of Social Communicators scheduled until tomorrow at the Havana Convention Center.

He also highlighted the work of social communicators in Cuba in regard to the need to know that 'peace is not just absence of war.'

He also considered it appropriate to disseminate the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace, adopted in Havana in 2014 during the II Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

The Cuban Movement for Peace and the Sovereignty of Peoples works in the articulation of efforts with organizations and individuals on the island and abroad interested in contributing to the global campaign for the peaceful coexistence of states or nations.

The non-government organization works with fighters for peace in the world and has established a wide coordination with other entities whose work objectives are in favor of it, without distinction of ideological, political or religious positions.