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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

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

José Antonio Rodríguez, Dominican Republic

Carlos Morales, Costa Rica

Carlos María Alsina, Argentina

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, Brazi

Pascual Serrano, Spain

Fernando Pino Solanas, Argentina

Russell Banks, US

Joaquín Sabina, Spain

Danny Rivera, Puerto Rico

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, Spain

Lucía Ruiz, Ecuador

Alfonso Cervera, Spain

Jorge Boccanera, Argentina

Alejandro Moreano, Ecuador

Xesús Alonso Montero, Spain

Marco Martos, Peru

Irene Vasco, Colombia

Juan Carlos Junio, Argentina

Diana Bellessi, Argentina

Ida Rodríguez Prampolini, Mexico

Augusto Boal, Brazil

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

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 RiechmannSpain

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

Idea Vilarinño, Uruguay

Víctor Redondo, Argentina

Jean Lamore, France

July Belafonte, US

Eric Nepomuceno, Brazil

 

 


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