Prominent intellectuals, academics, artists and social activists of seven islands that make up the Caribbean Chapter of the International Network In Defence of Humanity held a fruitful meeting during their participation in the program of activities commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Crime of Barbados in 1976. After starring in the launch of the global campaign for the UN to declare the 6 October as the International Day against Terrorism, its annual meeting focused on developing an action plan to carry out the campaign. Delegates from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago, along with invited representatives of the Cuban Chapter of the Network, chaired by the Vice President of ICAP and Hero, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, established as priorities mobilize Latin American-Caribbean civil society, in parallel with the request for support to the heads of state and government of CARICOM, ALBA-TCP, CELAC and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Secondly, driven follow approved the issue of reparations for slavery and link indelibly to the question of decolonization of the remaining traditional colonies in the Caribbean, as well as other existing neocolonies. In this sense, the link between reparation campaign of Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guyana and the CARICOM Reparation campaign, member states and Reparation Commission of the Community will be intensified. In this regard it was agreed conceptualizing Reparations looking for compensation owed for crimes of slavery and colonialism, clearing that provide critical resources to assist Caribbean colonies and neo-colonies in order to establish the states- truly sovereign and independent nation.
There was also consensus to place the issue of the political unification of the Caribbean region on the regional agenda and to carry out a program of public education and advocacy around this issue. Also promote a program to improve the interaction of Cuba-Caribbean civil society and build the necessary to advance these and other critical issues that are directly affecting our region relations.
Finally, the requirement that Luis Posada Carriles, the last masterminding survivor of the terrorist crime of October 6, 1976, be extradited to Venezuela to finally be tried for his role in this heinous crime and background that made him leaned in the most notorious and confessed terrorist in the Western hemisphere.
The delegations were made up of: Luc Reinette and Jacqueline Jacqueray, the National Reparations Committee of Guadalupe (CNRG); Garcin Malsa, the International Reparations Movement (MIR) in Martinique; Dorbrene O'Marde, Antigua and Barbuda; Gerald Perreira, Guyana; Khafra Kambon and Kandis Sebro, Trinidad and Tobago; Cikiah Thomas, Jamaica and representing the Caribbean diaspora in Canada; Glenroy Watson of the diaspora resident in London. Other delegations invited were the United States, represented by actor and social activist Danny Glover and James Early, and that of Cuba, also composed by Camilo Rojo, relatives of victims, Camila Valdes of the Casa de las Americas, Tania Parra, an official of ICAP.