The Pit-Cnt issued a statement in which it expresses its rejection of the recent unanimous approval of the National Parliament of a law that enables the entry of elite US Army troops into Uruguay.
“The Executive Secretariat of the PIT-CNT expresses its emphatic rejection of the presence of the elite command of the United States armed forces in our country. Military maneuvers with foreign forces accustomed to sowing war and destruction throughout the world are not a good sign for Uruguay’s international image,” says a fragment of the statement.
For the workers’ union, “the US has historically developed a violent and warmongering practice throughout the world as a way of imposing its economic and political interests. Latin America and our own country have been the object of this imperialist policy; which has not ceased over time, and which represents a risk to world peace and harmony among the peoples of the planet”. The statement also adds that to this day, “the government of that country (United States) has not even apologized for its support for the Uruguayan civic-military dictatorship and the havoc it caused on human rights and public freedoms of the people. Uruguayan”. “For the aforementioned reasons, the PIT-CNT expresses its great concern for the parliamentary consensus that gave the green light to the interference of this US military command in national territory,” the statement concludes.
