Bolivian President signs world call for Cuba's sovereignty
Campaign News | Tuesday, 22 August 2006
Evo Morales joins Harold Pinter and eight other Nobel winners
Havana, Aug 21.- Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed a call to respect Cuba's sovereignty, adding his name to nearly 13,000 personalities from around the world demanding that the United States put an end to its subversive plans against the island.
The text entitled "The Sovereignty of Cuba Must be Respected" calls to stop the US aggression against Cuba, emphasizing the Bush administration's "transition" plan against Cuba that includes a secret section with additional measures to bring about the annexation of Cuba.
Morales signature joins that of nine Nobel Prize winners, South African author Nadine Gordimer, her compatriot Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka, Russian scientist Zhores Alfiorov, Portugese writer Jose Saramago, Argentine human rights activist Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Italian playwright Dario Fo, British playwright Harold Pinter and Guatemalan indigenous leader Rigoberto Menchu, as well as renowned linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky (United States) and architect Oscar Niemeyer (Brazil).
Some of the first signers of the call to defend Cuba's sovereignty were: Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover (US), Mario Benedetti and Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), Ignacio Ramonet (Spain-France), Samir Amin (Egypt), Alfonso Sastre (Spain), Francois Houtart (Belgium), Juan Gelman (Argentina), Frei Betto (Brazil) and Pablo Gonzalez Casanova (Mexico). (ACN)
http://www.cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu/english/news/august_06/210806_04.asp
British Playwright: Respect Cuba
Havana, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) British playwright Harold Pinter became the ninth Nobel prize-winner to express support for Cuba.
The 2005 literature Nobel laureate joined more than 9,200 Intellectuals from all over the world who have condemned threats from representatives of the George W. Bush administration on the need to interfere in Cuba s internal affairs.
The British poet and author called to prevent a new aggression against Cuba at all cost.
The intellectuals stance was taken after statements by White House Spokesman Tony Snow, who said that Washington is ready and anxious to grant humanitarian and economic aid, and any kind of assistance, to the Cuban people.
The declaration "The Sovereignty of Cuba Must Be Respected", released in Havana on Monday, was also signed by Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Jose Saramago, Wole Soyinka, Dario Fo, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchu, Desmond Tutu and Zhores Alfiorov.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BCE766655-8CB2-4BDD-8262-91CB80128C17%7D)&language=EN
This letter has been signed by more than 400 renowned intellectuals
As a result of the communication of Fidel Castro on his state of health and the provisional delegation of his responsibilities, high ranking U.S officials have formulated more explicit statements about the immediate future of Cuba. The Secretary of ommerce Carlos Gutierrez said that “the moment has arrived for a true transition towards a true democracy” and the White House spokesman Tony Snow said that his government is “ready and eager to provide humanitarian, economic and other aid to the people of Cuba", as was recently reiterated by President Bush.
Already the “Commission for Assistance to a free Cuba”, presided over by the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pointed out in a report issued on June “the urgency of working today to ensure that the Castro regimen's succession strategy does not succeed” and President Bush indicated that this document “demonstrates that we are actively working for change in Cuba, not simply waiting for change”. The Department of State has emphasized that the plan includes measures that will remain secret “for reasons of national security” and to assure its “effective implementation”.
It is not difficult to imagine the character of such measures and the “announced assistance” if one considers the militarization of the foreign policy of the present American administration and its performance in Iraq.
In front of this increasing threat against the integrity of a nation, and the peace and the security of Latin America and the world, we the signatories listed below demand that the government of the United States respect the sovereignty of Cuba. We must prevent a new aggression at all costs.
To sign this letter go to
http://www.porcuba.org/
also see:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/mar8/33decla.html
Initial signatories:
José Saramago, Portugal; Wole Soyinka, Nigeria; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentina; Dario Fo, Italia; Desmond Tutu, Sudáfrica; Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemala; Nadine Gordimer, Sudáfrica; Zhores Alfiorov, Rusia; Noam Chomsky, EEUU; Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil; Harry Belafonte, EEUU; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Ignacio Ramonet, España-Francia; Danny Glover, EEUU; Samir Amin, Egipto; Alfonso Sastre, España; Francois Houtart, Bélgica; Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay; Juan Gelman, Argentina; Frei Betto, Brasil; Pablo González Casanova, México; Russell Banks, EEUU; Bernard Cassen, Francia; Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua; Angela Davis, EEUU; Ariel Dorfman, Chile; Tom Morello, EEUU; Walter Salles, Brasil; Manu Chao, Francia; Blanca Chancosa, Ecuador; Egberto Gismonti, Brasil; Andrés Gómez, Cuba; Alice Walker, EEUU; István Mészáros, Hungría; Fredric Jameson, EEUU; Pedro Casaldáliga, Brasil; Franz Hinkelammert, Alemania; Joao Pedro Stedile, Brasil; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuador; Fernando Birri, Argentina; Leonardo Boff, Brasil; David Viñas, Argentina; Emilio Carballido, México; José Luiz del Roio, Italia; Hebe de Bonafini, Argentina; Thiago de Mello, Brasil; Eugenio Barba, Italia-Dinamarca; Amiri Baraka, EEUU; Pedro Rivera, Panamá ; Amina Baraka, EEUU ; Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Portugal; Armand Mattelart, Bélgica; William Blum, EEUU; Miguel Bonasso, Argentina; Chico Whitaker, Brasil; María Rojo, México; Idea Vilariño, Uruguay; Belén Gopegui, España; Diamela Eltit, Chile; Atilio Borón, Argentina; Luciana Castellina, Italia; Ramsey Clark, EEUU; Luis Britto García, Venezuela; Stephen Rivers, EEUU; Miguel D’Escoto, Nicaragua; Stella Calloni, Argentina; Emir Sader, Brasil; Daniel Viglietti, Uruguay; Lucius Walker, EEUU ; Piero Gleijeses, Italia-EEUU; James D. Cockcroft, EEUU; Aníbal Quijano, Perú; Theotonio dos Santos, Brasil; Pablo Guayasamín, Ecuador; Leonard Weinglass, EEUU; Susu Pecoraro, Argentina; Francisco de Oliveira, Brasil; Graciela Duffau, Argentina; Fernando Rendón, Colombia; Luis Sepúlveda, Chile; Andy Spann, EEUU; Hildebrando Pérez Grande, Perú; Fernando Pino Solanas, Argentina; Santiago García, Colombia; Michael Löwy, Brasil; Juan Manuel Roca, Colombia; Pascual Serrano, España; León Rozitchner, Argentina; Jorge Rufinelli, Uruguay; Franca Rame, Italia; Alfredo Vera, Ecuador; Patricia Ariza, Colombia; Leslie Cagan, EEUU; Noé Jitrik, Argentina; Tununa Mercado, Argentina; Eric Nepomuceno, Brasil; James Petras, EEUU; Keith Ellis, Jamaica- Canadá; Tristán Bauer, Argentina; Ferreira Gullar, Brasil; Marco Martos, Perú; Lorgio Vaca, Bolivia; Eric Toussaint, Bélgica; Georges Labica, Francia; Octavio Getino, Argentina; Richard Levins, EEUU; Martin Almada, Paraguay; Elmar Alvater, Alemania; Roberto Montoya, Argentina; Víctor Heredia, Argentina; Víctor Víctor, R. Dominicana; Tomás Borge, Nicaragua; Eva Forest, España; Michele Mattelart, Francia; Leticia Spiller, Brasil; Javier Couso, España; Fernando Suárez, México ; Salim Lamrani, Francia; Montserrat Ponsa, España; Jean Pascal Van Ypersele, Bélgica ; Verenice Guayasamín, Ecuador; Marilia Guimarães, Brasil; Gioconda Belli, Nicaragua; Tarek Williams Saab, Venezuela ; Isidora Aguirre, Chile; Suzy Castor, Haití; Claribel Alegría, El Salvador; Andrés Sorel, España; Ann Sparanese, EEUU; Denisse Stoklos, Brasil; Alessandra Riccio, Italia; Carlos Fernández Liria, España; Alex Cox, Reino Unido; Michel Collon, Bélgica; Danny Rivera, Puerto Rico; Tato Pavlovsky, Argentina; Román Chalbaud, Venezuela; James Early, EEUU; Jean Brigmont, Bélgica; Anthony Arnove, EEUU; Carlo Frabetti, Italia-España; Fernando Buttazoni, Uruguay; Fernando Morais, Brasil; Ramón Chao, España-Francia; Silvio Tendler, Brasil; Hanan Awwad, Palestina; Orlando Senna, Brasil; Saul Landau, EEUU; Francisco Jarauta, España; Adolfo Colombres, Argentina; Roberto Amaral, Brasil; Pilar del Río, España; Fernando Ainsa, Uruguay; Alcira Argumedo, Argentina ; Carmen Bohorquez, Venezuela ; Steve Williams, EEUU ; Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombia-Francia; Gilberto López y Rivas, México; Juan Carlos Camaño, Argentina; Michael Parenti, EEUU; Marta Palau, México; Italo Ordóñez, Ecuador; Gloria la Riva, EEUU; Francisco Villa, Chile; Gennaro Carotenuto, Italia; Edward Sanders, EEUU; Ersi Sotiropulos, Grecia; Constantino Bértolo, España; Manuel Cabieses, Chile; Jose A. De Frietas (Tunai), Brasil; Thelma Nava, México; Hugo Urquijo, Argentina; Isaura Navarro, España; Cecilia Conde, Brasil; Igor Jinkings, Brasil; Iosu Perales Arretxe, País Vasco; Issa Makhlouf, Líbano; Marcos Roitman, España; Héctor Díaz Polanco, R. Dominicana; Antonio Maira, España; Arturo Andrés Roig, Argentina; Roy Brown, Puerto Rico; Al Campbell, EEUU; Luisa Vicioso, R. Dominicana; Carlos Fazio, Uruguay; Luciano Vasapollo, Italia; John Beverley, EEUU; Carlos Varea, España; Víctor Flores Olea, México; Hassan El Ouazanni, Marruecos; Jitendra Sharma, India; José Mulligan, Nicaragua; Beto Almeida, Brasil; Juan Madrid, España; Sonja de Vries, EEUU ; Red Ronnie, Italia; Juan Kalvellido, España; Miguel Urbano, Portugal; Nora de Izcue, Perú; Raúl Pérez Torres, Ecuador; Santiago Alba Rico, España; José Steinsleger, México; Setsuko Ono, Japón-EEUU; Susan Willis, EEUU; Vicente Romano, España; Néstor Kohan, Argentina; Pedro de Castro Amaral, Brasil; Angeles Maestro, España; Vicente Battista, Argentina; Stefania Mosca, Venezuela; Clifton Ross, EEUU; Zlatko Krasni, Serbia; Wim Dierckxsens, Costa Rica; Sérgio Saboya, Brasil; Claudio Katz, Argentina; Luciano Alzaga, Argentina; Corium Aharoniam, Uruguay; Donatella Mészáros, Italia; Carol Cross, EEUU; Raly Barrionuevo, Argentina; Kali Akuno, EEUU ; Gloria Berrocal, España; Rodolfo Livingston, Argentina; Remy Herrera, Francia; Mano Melo, Brasil; Irene Amador, España; Paul Emile Dupret, Bélgica; Jaime Losada, España; Marcelo Resende, Brasil; Pablo Marcano García, Puerto Rico; Miguel Martín Ayllón, España; José C. Rovira, España; Alvaro Castillo Granada, Colombia, Natalia Toledo, México; Consuelo Sánchez, México; José Heleno Rotta, Brasil; Shirley Pate, EEUU; Gerardo Cerdas Vega, Costa Rica; Carlos Marés, Brasil; Clarisse Chiappini Casthilos, Brasil; Michael S. Smith, EEUU; José Luis Tagliaferro, Argentina-Italia; Claude Marks, EEUU ; Iñaki Errazkin, España; Eduardo Ebendinger, Brasil; León Ferrari, Argentina; Guy Bajoit, Bélgica; Lia Sessy, Italia; Ricardo Antunes, Brasil; María Toledano, España; Robert Franck, Bélgica; Verena Graf, Suiza; Eva Björklund, Suecia; Raúl Vallejo, Ecuador; Eduardo Guimarães, Brasil; Aitana Alberti, Argentina-Cuba; Sara Rosemberg, Argentina; Beatriz Bissio, Brasil; Bert de Belder, Bélgica; Jaime Mejía Duque, Colombia; Jane Franklin, EEUU; Alicia Hermida, España; Ana Esther Ceceña, México; Angel Parra, Chile; Branca Eloysa P. Ferreira, Brasil; Dionne Brand, Canadá; Sergio J. Dos Santos França, Brasil; Lêdo Ivo, Brasil; Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua; José Antonio Barroso Toledo, España; Christine Fayart, Bélgica; Caique Botkay, Brasil; Angelica Malinarich-Dorfman, Chile; Manuel Fernández-Cuesta, España; Sidnei Liberal, Brasil; Carlos Takeshi, Brasil; Jean Pestiaux, Bélgica; Aderbal Ashogun, Brasil; Carlos Baron, Chile; Alejandro Moreano, Ecuador; Hans-Otto Dill, Alemania; Carmem Regina de Vargas, Brasil; Richard Becker, EEUU; David Lagmanovich, Argentina; Carmen Vargas, Brasil; Jean Philippe Peemans, Bélgica; Aderbal Moreira Costa, Brasil; Claudia Korol, Argentina; Teodoro Buarque de Hollanda, Brasil; Enrique Dacal, Argentina; Célia Ravero, Brasil; Nico Hirft, Bélgica; Andrea Duffour, Suiza; Ana Tendler, Brasil; Carolina Virguez, Colombia; Terezinha Lameira, Brasil; Juan Carlos Volnovich, Argentina; Clarissa Matheus, Brasil; Hugo Achugar, Uruguay; Michael Steven Smith, EEUU; Nicolas Bardos, Bélgica; Anisio Palhano P. Ferreira, Brasil; Vera Malaguiti, Brasil; Danielle Bleitrach, Francia; Rafael Spregelbud, Argentina; Augusto Boal, Brasil; Bob Stone, EEUU; Pierre Beaudet, Bélgica; Clarisse Mantuano, Brasil; Vivaldo Franco, Brasil; Claufe Rodrigues, Brasil; Alicia Jrapcko, EEUU; Waldir Leite, Brasil; Dácio Malta, Brasil; Anne Waldmann, EEUU; Danon Lacerda, Brasil; Betsy Bowman, EEUU; Denise Fraga, Brasil; Bryan Becker, EEUU; Echaterina Brasileiro, Brasil; Joy Harjo, EEUU; Jorge Fons, México; Emilio Mira y Lopez, Brasil; Fábio Basilone, Brasil; Mary Lou ise Pratt, EEUU; Andrés Linares, España; Geraldo Moreira, Brasil; Angeles Diez Rodríguez, España; Ana Lydia Vega, Puerto Rico; Susana Fiorito, Argentina; Joseph Mutti, EEUU ; Haroldo Costa, Brasil; Margot Pepper, EEUU ; Isadora Jinkings, Brasil; Carlos Tena, España; Andrés Ordoñez, México; Ivair Itagiba, Brasil; David Acera Rodríguez, España; Ivana Jinkings, Brasil; Eduardo Hernández Fernández, España; Jalusa Barcelos, Brasil; Iñaki Markiegi, España; Jaqueline da Silva, Brasil; Jorge Lopez Ave, España; Jesús Chediak, Brasil; Justo Carracedo, España; Jean Portante, Luxemburgo; José Vicente Tavares dos Santos, Brasil; José Braga, Brasil; Jussara Freire, Brasil; Miguel Riera Montesinos, España; Leila Jinkings, Brasil; Pepe Mejía, España; Luis Carlos Cseko, Brasil; Alain Ruscio, Francia; Mãe Beata de Yemoja, Brasil; Susana Vellegia, Argentina; Marcello Guimaraes, Brasil; Beatriz Stolowicz, México; Marcellus Machado, Brasil; Horacio Verzi, Uruguay; Elvira Concheiro, México; Mário Augusto Jakobskind, Brasil; Luciano Concheiro, México; Isabel-Clara Simó, España; Xavier Dalfó, España; Michele Victer, Brasil; Monique Lemaitre, México; Miwa Saboya, Brasil; Natalia Toledo, México; Nilo Batista, Brasil; Hane Haga, Noruega; Olny de Freitas, Brasil; Clemente Padín, Uruguay; Raymundo de Oliveira, Brasil; Hernán Rivera Letelier, Chile; Quintín Cabrera, Uruguay; Regina Libonati, Brasil; Douglas Bohórquez, Venezuela; Zezé Sack, Brasil; Catherine Murphy, EEUU; Maximilien Laroche, Haití; Hiber Conteris,Uruguay; Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brasil; Marita Fornaro, Uruguay; Graciela Paraskevaidis, Uruguay; Rafael Aponte Ledée, Puerto Rico; Daisy Zamora, Nicaragua; Mauricio Kartun, Argentina; Cecilia Boal, Brasil; C. K. Otead, Nueva Zelanda; Chiranan Pritpeecha, Tailandia; Gerhard Falkner, Alemania; Quincy Troupe, EEUU; Neshe Yashin, Chipre; Koulsy Lamko, Chad; Nicole Cage Florentiny, Martinica ; Leslee Lee, Perú; Andrés Rivera, Argentina; Juan Cristóbal, Perú; Frèdèric Debuyst, Bélgica ; Jean Claude Fritz, Francia; Gérard Fritz, Francia; Jacques Bidet, Bélgica; Milagros Rivera, Puerto Rico; Katalina Montero, EEUU; Luis Fernando Eyerbe, Argentina-Brasil; Daniel Veronese, Argentina; Pat Murphy, EEUU Kendell Hoppolyte, Santa Lucía; Breyten Breytenbach, Sudáfrica; Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir, Islandia ; Clara Algranati, Argentina; José Seoane, Argentina; David Franco Monthiel, España
International intellectuals urge US to stop threatening Cuba
More than 400 intellectuals from 50 countries called on the United States in a signed open letter to stop threatening Cuba and to respect the nation's sovereignty, some of the signatories told a press conference on Monday.
"Faced with the growing threat to one nation's integrity, and to the peace and security of Latin America and the world, we the undersigned demand that the United States government respect Cuba's sovereignty," says the letter that was jointly presented by Belgian sociologist and theologian Francois Houtart, editor of the magazine Areito, Andres Gomez, and president of the Casa de las Americas, Roberto Fernandez Retamar.
The letter denounced statements made by U.S. government officials following the July 31 operation on Cuba's leader Fidel Castro to control an intestinal hemorrhage.
U.S. President George W. Bush threatened after Castro's illness that "we are working actively for a change in Cuba, not simply hoping it will happen," while U.S. trade secretary Carlos Gutierrez's said, "The moment has come for a transition to a real democracy."
Castro, who turns 80 on Aug. 13, has been out of sight since July 31, when his secretary went on state television to announce he had undergone surgery and was temporarily ceding power to Defense Minister Raul Castro.
The intellectuals also denounced a recent leaked plan by the Commission for a Free Cuba, which is run by Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state. The plan included anti-Castro measures that "must remain secret for reasons of national security and so they can be realized effectively."
The letter said it was not difficult to imagine what such measures might be, adding that "we must halt a new aggression at all costs."
Cuba has been under a U.S. financial embargo since 1960s. Castro, who took control of Cuba in 1959, has survived repeated U.S. attempts to topple him.
Fernandez, president of Casa de las Americas, called on intellectuals of the world to sign the letter on internet.
Signatories included Nobel Prize-winning writers Jose Saramago from Portugal, Wole Soyinka from Nigeria, Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina and Dario Fo from Italy. Social activists Desmond Tutu and Nadine Gordimer from South Africa, and Rigoberta Menchu from Guatemala, also put their names to the letter.
Source: Xinhua
http://english.people.com.cn/200608/08/eng20060808_290993.html
