US Pacifists Meet Cuban Leaders
US peace activists met with Cuban Culture Minister Abel Prieto and Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon, both members of the Communist Party's Political Bureau, the national TV network reported.

During the last day in the nation, the anti-war delegation talked Saturday with the Culture minister on the rally held in the nearby area of the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, a portion of Cuban territory illegally occupied against the will of the Cubans.

They also referred to the British document "Camino a Guantanamo" (Road to Guantanamo), which tell the horrors of that jail and whose screening will take place at Havana's Infanta movies.

In the building of the Peoples Power National Assembly (Parliament), the group was welcomed by Alarcon, to whom they expressed gratitude to the Cuban people and government for their one-week stay in the island.

The activists denounced the end of tortures and demanded the closure of that prison in the naval base in Guantanamo, which the George W. Bush government has become hell.

Alarcon and the anti-war group exchanged on the naval base, the US seizure of that Cuban territory over a century ago and demonstrations taking place in that northern nation.