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Let
us halt another anti-Cuban maneuver
THE 61st session of the UN Human
Rights Commission takes place in Geneva from March
14 to April 22, and once again, by putting pressure
on member countries, the US government will try to
secure a resolution against Cuba.
It concerns a manipulative and
selective treatment of the issue in order to justify
the intensification of the policy of blockade and
aggression that the largest superpower on the planet
is exercising against a little country, in violation
of international law. The Commission should
represent all the UN member nations and protect the
rights of all men and women in the world. However,
it is significant that during last year’s session it
proved impossible to assess or even discuss the
atrocious violations of human rights taking place in
the US prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo within
that agency.
The US government does not have
the moral authority to elect itself a judge of human
rights in Cuba, where there have never been any
cases of disappearances, torture or extra-judicial
execution and where, despite the blockade,
internationally recognized indicators in health,
education and culture have been attained.
We call on the governments of
those countries represented on the Commission not to
allow it to be utilized to legitimize the anti-Cuban
aggression of the Bush administration at a time when
Washington’s current bellicose policy makes
foreseeable a possible escalation of very grave
consequences. We likewise call on journalists,
writers, artists, professors, teachers and social
activists to approach their governments and use all
means within their reach to speak out against this
gross maneuver.
SIGNED BY:
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentina; Adolfo Sánchez
Vázquez, Mexico; Nadine Gordimer, South Africa;
Tariq Alí, Pakistan; Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil; Ramsey
Clark, US; Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguay; Luis Britto
García, Venezuela; Harry Belafonte, US; Leonardo
Boff, Brazil; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Howard Zinn,
US; Danny Glover, US; Volodia Teitelboim, Chile;
Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua; David Viñas, Argentina;
Pablo González Casanova, Mexico; Juan Bañuelos,
Mexico; Ignacio Ramonet, France; Julio Ortega, Peru;
Alice Walker, US; María Rojo, Mexico; Jorge Enrique
Adoum, Ecuador; Atilio Borón, Argentina; Eduardo
Galeano, Uruguay; Emir Sader, Brazil; Ettore Scola,
Italy; Gianni Miná, Italy; Eric Toussaint, Belgium;
Belén Gopegui, Spain; Saul Landau, US; James Petras,
US; Heinz Dieterich, Germany; Thiago de Mello,
Brazil; Theotonio dos Santos, Brazil; Alfonso
Sastre, Spain; James Cockcroft, US; Frei Betto,
Brazil; Pascual Serrano, Spain; Fernando Pino
Solanas, Argentina; Russell Banks, US; Joaquín
Sabina, Spain; Danny Rivera, Puerto Rico; Luis
Eduardo Aute, Spain; Almudena Grandes, Spain; Daniel
Viglietti, Uruguay; Luis García Montero, Spain;
Abelardo Castillo, Argentina; Fernando Morais,
Brazil; Sylvia Iparraguirre, Argentina; Jorge
Sanjinés, Bolivia; Luis Sepúlveda, Chile; James
Early, US; Mempo Giardinelli, Argentina; Francisco
Fernández Buey, Spain; Luciana Castellinna, Italy;
León Rozitchner, Argentina; Keith Ellis, Canadá;
José Luis Sampedro, Spain; Piero Gleijeses, Italy;
Ramón Chao, Spain; Setsuko Ono, Japan; Manu Chao,
France; Jorge Ruffinelli, Uruguay; Georges Labica,
France; Jaime Labastida, Mexico; Red Rodnnie, Italy;
Ferreira Goulart, Brazil; Ann Sparanese, US; Jean
Marie Binoche, France; Roy Brown, Puerto Rico;
Santiago García, Colombia; Paulo Lins, Brazil;
Miguel Bonasso, Argentina; Tato Pavlovsky,
Argentina; Fernando Birri, Argentina; Alex Cox, UK;
Paulo Beni, Italy; Bill Fletcher, US.; Gustavo
Becerra-Schmidt, Chile; Eva Forest, Spain; Liliana
Heker, Argentina; Andrés Rivera, Argentina;
Constantino Bértolo, Spain; Michel Collon, Belgium;
Gilberto López y Rivas, Mexico; Andrés Sorel, Spain;
Manlio Argueta, El Salvador; Margaret Randall, US.;
Anacristina Rossi, Costa Rica; Hernando Calvo Ospina,
Colombia; Ana de Skalon, Argentina; Horacio A.
López, Argentina; Xavier Maqua, Spain; René Vázquez
Díaz, Suecia; Alessandra Riccio, Italy; Gloria
Berrocal, Spain; Marta Harnecker, Chile; Michael
Lebowitz, Canadá; Carlo Frabetti, Spain; José
Steinsleger, Mexico; Isaura Navarro, Spain; Irene
Amador, Spain; Vicente Battista, Argentina; Daniel
Lorenzi, Italy; Manuel Fernández Cuesta, Spain; Juan
Madrid, Spain; Adolfo Colombres, Argentina; Paul
Estrade, France; Lola Canales, Spain; Pedro Rivera,
Panamá; Marcos Roitman, Spain; Isaac Rosa, Spain;
Julio Rodríguez Puértolas, Spain; Francisco Jarauta,
Spain; Remy Herrera, France; Raúl Pérez Torres,
Ecuador; Carlos Varea, Spain; Miguel Hermoso, Spain;
Juano Villafañe, Argentina; Patricia Díaz Bialet,
Argentina; Chiqui Vicioso, Rep. Dominicana; Domenico
Losurdo, Italy; Sandra Mirna Soto, Mexico; Jaime A.
Shelley, Mexico; Alondra Badano, Panamá; Yannick
Bovy, Belgium; Jorge Enrique Botero, Colombia;
Fernando Butazzoni, Uruguay; Santiago Alba Rico,
Spain; Aram Aharonian, Uruguay; Higinio Polo, Spain;
Miguel Rubio, Peru; Arturo Arias, Guatemala;
Hildebrando Pérez, Peru; Carlos Fazio, Mexico;
Víctor Ríos Vidal, Spain; Alberto Rodríguez Carucci,
Venezuela; Ana María Ramb, Argentina; Manuel
Cabieses, Chile; Fernando García, Chile; Sara
Rosemberg, Argentina; Iosu Perales Arretxe, Basque
Country; Lucía Ruiz, Ecuador; Alfonso Cervera, Spain;
Jorge Boccanera, Argentina; Alejandro Moreano,
Ecuador; Xesús Alonso Montero, Spain; Marco Martos,
Peru; Irene Vasco, Colombia; Lolo Rico, Spain; Ana
Esther Ceceña, Mexico; Salim Lamrani, France; Iris
M. Zavala, Puerto Rico; Raúl Vallejo, Ecuador;
Isidora Aguirre, Chile; Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda,
Brazil; Víctor Delfín, Peru; Daniel Freidembarg,
Argentina; Jorge Riechmann, Spain; Néstor Kohan,
Argentina; Leopoldo Brizuela, Argentina; Federico
Álvarez, Mexico; Carlos Eduardo Satizábal, Colombia;
Patricia Ariza, Colombia; Susana Cella, Argentina;
Jane Franklin, US; Guillermo Saccomanno, Argentina;
Juan Carlos Martini, Argentina; Ricardo Capellano,
Argentina; Rodrigo Quesada Monge, Costa Rica; Isaías
Peña, Colombia; José Luis Mangieri, Argentina;
Graciela Araoz, Argentina; Eduardo Dalter,
Argentina; Ángeles Maestro, Spain; Vito Giannoti,
Italy; Jean-Pierre Page, France; Joan Tafalla, Spain;
Raúl García Lima, Argentina; Reinaldo Maia, Brazil;
Francisco José Pérez Esteban, Spain; Tabajara Ruas,
Brazil; Luciano Alzaga, Argentina; Cristina Xalma,
Spain; Raúl García Luna, Argentina; Juan Sasturain,
Argentina; Mario Marino, Argentina; Gabriel Bellomo,
Argentina, Ana Pizarro, Chile; Arturo Taracena
Arriola, Guatemala; Walter Sales, Brazil; José
Antonio Rodríguez, Dominican Republic; Carlos
Morales, Costa Rica; Carlos María Alsina, Argentina;
Juan Carlos Junio, Argentina; Diana Bellessi,
Argentina; Ida Rodríguez Prampolini, Mexico; Augusto
Boal, Brazil; Idea Vilarinño, Uruguay; Víctor
Redondo, Argentina; Jean Lamore, France; July
Belafonte, US; Eric Nepomuceno, Brazil.
Note: Since the international
press picked up on this statement yesterday, many
more people have added their names to the document.
A message reception facility has been set up at
cubadh@yahoo.es;
cubahr@hotmail.co.uk;
presidencia@casa.cult.cu; and
edhcuba@min.cult.cu for others who wish to
support it. |
