{"product_id":"guantanamo-why-the-illegal-us-base-should-be-returned-to-cuba-9780980429251","title":"Guantanamo: Why the Illegal Us Base Should Be Returned to Cuba","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There are many desecrations of human rights taking place in our world. Many involve conflicts of great complexity  religious or factional: it is immensely difficult to create just solutions to them. Guantnamo is the outstanding exception. The just solution is simple . . . the US must leave Guantnamo unconditionally.\"From the foreword by Noam Chomsky  Nadine Gordimer  Rigoberta Menchu  and others \"Imagine if after we defeated the British in our revolution  we then let them keep a few thousand troops and a bunch of battleships in New York Harbor. Weird!\"Michael Moore \"To keep a military base against the will of our people is a violation of the most elemental principles of international law.\"Fidel Castro How is it that Guantnamo Bay  seized after the Spanish-American War over one hundred years ago  is still held by the United States as a naval base? President Obama has proposed to close the prison for those captured in the \"war against terrorism \" but Fidel Castro argues in this extended essay  \"The Empire and the Independent Island \" written in 2007  that the illegal occupation must end and the territory be returned to Cuba. This book also features a comprehensive chronology of the bases history and extensive appendices  including some key historical documents through which Washington has justified its continued occupation and recently declassified documents from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. It also includes a foreword by Noam Chomsky  Nadine Gordimer  Salim Lamrani  Rigoberta Menchu  and Adolfo Prez Esquivel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931491991605,"sku":"ByrdShop_0980429250","price":28.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780980429251.jpg?v=1794212632","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/guantanamo-why-the-illegal-us-base-should-be-returned-to-cuba-9780980429251","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}