Those who weeks ago thought that the fight to stop the torture of chimpanzees in North American laboratories was about to end up were cheated . The announcement made by NIH – National Institute of Health of USA, which ntended to deliver the chimpanzees it owns to a Federal Sanctuary, retiring them and only allowing 50 for emergency use , hid, as always when governments talk not clearly, the truth .

The Research Center of New Iberia ( NIRC ), in Louisiana , which is a breeding and medical torture center of chimpanzees and other primates, retired 110 chimpanzees by order of the NIH . Fifty have been to Federal Sanctuary Chimp Haven ( CH ) in Louisiana and another 60 are waiting a few months more until the new construction in the Sanctuary is finished,,to be freed from their oppressors .

But the story does not end here . At the torture center of New Iberia there are still 200 other chimpanzees, who have been tortured in the past for years ,but today are no longer useful and do not belong to the Federal Government. They belong to private owners and for these unfortunates, until now, there is no retirement, no compassion, no destiny.

The Torture Center New Iberia insists on keeping them, no matter it does not use them, since the center receives, approximately, $ 56 in fees for each of them to keep them there for life. For years, New Iberia receives over 4 million dollars and does not want to miss this ” hefty ” .

The dramatic of all this is that the center of New Iberia belongs to University of Louisiana , a center of knowledge, but it is dominated by the money produced by hundreds of chimpanzees and other primates for years of exploitation.

The University of Louisiana is not the only one. Other North American universities, classified as major centers of learning in the world, also practice the same way to raise resources , exploring unhappy primates . Emory University has a research center of primates for over 50 years and the University of Texas, in Bastrop, also has hundreds of chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys that raise good money.

GAP Project denounces to the world that anguish, pain, torture and destruction of hundreds of lives of chimpanzees in North America are still far way from the end. They have been converted in an inexhaustible source of profits for universities, which should defend life and compassion for our evolutionary brothers and still insist on being their executioners .

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian
President , GAP Project International