NIH – United States National Health Institute – affirmed months ago that it had decided to retire all of its chimpanzees, but a strategic reserve of 50 individuals, for use in medical torture in emergency cases. But yet the promise “remains a promise” and 360 beings remain in the same torture centers where they have lived nearly a lifetime.

NIH has committed to fund the constructions in official Chimp Haven sanctuary to house all those innocent beings however, did not fulfill its promise.

NEAVS, one of the organizations that has struggled over the withdrawal of these chimpanzees of torture, has collaborated with $ 100,000 to help the adequacy of facilities, but NIH, which is the owner and the largest primate torturer of the Universe, not fulfilled.

And why is that? The possible reason for this is that the business of torturing animals, whether large, medium or small primates, and dozens of other species, is a tremendous business in the United States.

In Capitalism everything is outsourced and in this field could not be different. NIH has tortured centers as partners for many years, for whom it pays stratospheric fees per day, nearing $ 60 to keep those beings imprisoned for a lifetime.

As time passes, more money keeps flowing into the treasuries of torture centers, and someone in the government, specifically in NIH, receives his benefits.

Do you think that only in the Third World is that these dirty tricks happen? No, it also happens with money from Health in the richest country on the planet. Some people receive huge benefits at the expense of hundreds of defenseless beings who cannot protest or speak.

The photo of this report shows Gwen, one of the oldest chimpanzees kept in American torture centers. He was 54 when he retired for the official Chimp Haven sanctuary. Dozens like him are still waiting for the unfulfilled promise of the leaders of NIH, who never cared about the future of those primates.

Dr. Pedro A. Ynterian

President, GAP Project International