Παρασκευή 25 Μαρτίου 2016

Obama: Back in the US after his tour in Latin America

Obama: Back in the US after his tour in Latin America



US President Barack Obama left for the US after the historic visit to Cuba and then in Argentina.

The presidential aircraft Air Force One took off from Buenos Aires at around 00:10 local time (5:10 GMT) today to the United States.

With the phrase "never again" US President Barack Obama paid last tribute to the victims of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1976-1983, the day of 40th anniversary of the overthrow of the Government of the junta.

Within the official visit made in Argentina, the American president yesterday visited the Park of Remembrance, a space dedicated to the victims of the dictatorship.

Obama hailed "the courage, the perseverance of spouses, children who refused to abandon their struggle for truth" by reason of the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are looking up now children and grandchildren who "disappeared" during the dictatorship.

From Argentina Barack Obama officially announced the opening of military archives and the CIA for the dictatorship in the country and stressed that this would help to cast more light on cases of disappearance of dissidents.

He also said that the US should consider the policy applied at the time of the "dirty war" in Argentina.

"In democracies we must have the courage to admit when you do not respond to the ideals that we represent and we were slow to talk about human rights, which was the issue here," he said.

He had previously visited Cuba, turning a page of history.

With his trip to Havana, one of the last bastions of communism intended to put an end to over five decades of hostility.

Obama was the first active American leader visited the island after the visit of Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

Accompanied by his wife Michelle and their two daughters Malia and Sasha, Obama sought his visit is to achieve a double objective: to make contact with the Cuban people and stabilize the spectacular approach that began in late 2014 with Cuba Raul Castro.

On Cuba, Obama called on the US Congress, dominated by Republicans, to lift the embargo against Havana, which has been in force since 1962, and is "a burden for the Cuban people" and "a burden for Americans who want to work and invest in Cuba, "as noted.

Change is possible in Cuba, also stressed during his visit to the island. "I believe that people should be free to express their views without fear, to criticize their government and to demonstrate peacefully," he said, to come: "I trust the Cuban people."

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