LET US STOP A NEW MANEUVER AGAINST CUBA

LET US STOP A NEW MANEUVER AGAINST CUBA

From March 14th to April 22nd,2005, the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will take place in Geneva, where once more the US government will try to pass a resolution against Cuba.

It is a manipulated and selective treatment of the topic to justify the intensification of the policy of blockade and aggressions by the greatest power on the planet against a small country, in violation of International Law. The Commission must represent every United Nations member State and ensure respect for the rights of all men and women worldwide. It is significant, however, that within the Commission, during the last year sessions, it was not possible to evaluate, not even to debate, the atrocious violations of human rights taking place in US prisons in Abuh Ghraib and Guantanamo.

The US government has no moral authority to set itself up as a judge of human rights in Cuba, where there is not a single case of missing persons, torture or extra judicial killing and where internationally recognized health, education and cultural levels have been reached despite the blockade.

We request the countries represented in the Commission not to allow it to be used to legitimize the Bush Administration's anti-Cuban aggressiveness, when the current war-mongering policy led by Washington makes predictable an eventual escalation of very serious consequences. We also call on journalists, writers, artists, professors, school teachers and social activists to address their governments and express by every possible means that this dangerous maneuver stop.
Undersigned: Adolfo Pйrez Esquivel, Argentina; Josй Saramago, Portugal; Nadine Gordimer, Sudбfrica; Rigoberta Menchъ, Guatemala; Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil; Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguay; Harry Belafonte, EEUU; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Danny Glover, EEUU; Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua; Pablo Gonzбlez Casanova, Mйxico; Ignacio Ramonet, Francia; Alice Walker, EEUU; Danielle Miterrand, Francia; Walter Salles, Brasil; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuador; Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay; Gianni Minб, Italia; Belйn Gopegui, Espaсa; Adolfo Sбnchez Vбzquez, Mйxico; Tariq Alн, Pakistбn; Ramsey Clark, EEUU; Luis Britto Garcнa, Venezuela; Leonardo Boff, Brasil; Howard Zinn, EEUU; Claudio Abbado, Italia; Volodia Teitelboim, Chile; David Viсas, Argentina; Juan Baсuelos, Mйxico; Julio Ortega, Perъ; Marнa Rojo, Mйxico; Atilio Borуn, Argentina; Emir Sader, Brasil; Eric Toussaint, Bйlgica; Saul Landau, EEUU; James Petras, EEUU; Thiago de Mello, Brasil; Frei Betto, Brasil; Alfonso Sastre, Espaсa; Fernando Pino Solanas, Argentina; Joaquнn Sabina, Espaсa; Luis Eduardo Aute, Espaсa; Claude Couffon, Francia; Daniel Viglietti, Uruguay; Sonia Silvestre, Rep. Dominicana; Victor Victor, Rep. Dominicana; Pilar del Rнo, Espaсa; Abelardo Castillo, Argentina; Sylvia Iparraguirre, Argentina; Luis Sepъlveda, Chile; Mempo Giardinelli, Argentina; Luciana Castellinna, Italia; Keith Ellis, Canadб; Heinz Dieterich, Alemania; Theotonio dos Santos, Brasil; James Cockcroft, EEUU; Pascual Serrano, Espaсa; Russell Banks, EEUU; Danny Rivera, Puerto Rico; Almudena Grandes, Espaсa; Luis Garcнa Montero, Espaсa; Fernando Morais, Brasil; Jorge Sanjinйs, Bolivia; Victor Heredia, Argentina; James Early, EEUU; Francisco Fernбndez Buey, Espaсa; Leуn Rozitchner, Argentina; Josй Luis Sampedro, Espaсa; Ramуn Chao, Espaсa; Manu Chao, Francia/Espaсa; Itsvбn Mestzбros, Reino Unido; Georges Labica, Francia; Red Ronnie, Italia; Piero Gleijeses, Italia; Setsuko Ono, Japуn; Jorge Ruffinelli, Uruguay; Jaime Labastida, Mйxico; Ferreira Goulart, Brasil; Jean Marie Binoche, Francia; Santiago Garcнa, Colombia; Miguel Bonasso, Argentina; Fernando Birri, Argentina; Paulo Beni, Italia; Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chile; Liliana Heker, Argentina; Ann Sparanese, EEUU; Roy Brown, Puerto Rico; Paulo Lins, Brasil; Tristбn Bauer, Argentina; Tato Pavlovsky, Argentina; Alex Cox, Reino Unido; Bill Fletcher, EEUU; Eva Forest, Espaсa; Constantino Bйrtolo, Espaсa; Gilberto Lуpez y Rivas, Mйxico; Manlio Argueta, El Salvador; Anacristina Rossi, Costa Rica; Ana de Skalon, Argentina; Francesco Masselli, Italia; Xavier Maqua, Espaсa; Alessandra Riccio, Italia; Marta Harnecker, Chile; Carlo Frabetti, Italia/Espaсa; Andrйs Rivera, Argentina; Michel Collon, Bйlgica; Vicente Battista, Argentina; Andrйs Sorel, Espaсa; Alfonso Bauer; Guatemala; Margaret Randall, EEUU; Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombia; Horacio A. Lуpez, Argentina; Renй Vбzquez Dнaz, Cuba/Suecia; Gloria Berrocal, Espaсa; Michael Lebowitz, Canadб; Josй Steinsleger, Argentina/Mйxico; Irene Amador, Espaсa; Daniel Lorenzi, Italia; Juan Madrid, Espaсa; Paul Estrade, Francia; Pedro Rivera, Panamб; Isaac Rosa, Espaсa; Manuel Fernбndez Cuesta, Espaсa; Adolfo Colombres, Argentina; Lola Canales, Espaсa; Remy Herrera, Francia; Marcos Roitman Rosenmann, Espaсa; Raъl Pйrez Torres, Ecuador; Julio Rodrнguez Puйrtolas, Espaсa; Chiqui Vicioso, Rep. Dominicana; Francisco Jarauta, Espaсa; Juano Villafaсe, Argentina; Carlos Varea, Espaсa; Patricia Dнaz Bialet, Argentina; Miguel Hermoso, Espaсa; Domenico Losurdo, Italia; Jaime A. Shelley, Mйxico; Alondra Badano, Panamб; Sandra Mirna Soto Rodrнguez, Mйxico; Jorge Enrique Botero, Colombia; Santiago Alba Rico, Espaсa; Margarita Carrera Molina, Guatemala; Luz Mйndez de la Vega, Guatemala; Josй Barnoya Garcнa, Guatemala; Arturo Fleitas, Uruguay; Donatella Mestzбros, Reino Unido; Fernando Butazzoni, Uruguay; Yannick Bovy, Bйlgica; Higinio Polo, Espaсa; Aram Aharonian, Uruguay/Venezuela; Arturo Arias, Guatemala; Miguel Rubio, Perъ; Carlos Fazio, Mйxico; Hildebrando Pйrez Grande, Perъ; Alberto Rodrнguez Carucci, Venezuela; Vнctor Rнos Vidal, Espaсa; Manuel Cabieses, Chile; Ana Marнa Ramb, Argentina; Sara Rosemberg, Argentina; Fernando Garcнa, Chile; Lucнa Ruнz, Ecuador; Iosu Perales Arretxe, Paнs Vasco; Jorge Boccanera, Argentina; Alfonso Cervera, Espaсa; Xesъs Alonso Montero, Espaсa; Alejandro Moreano, Ecuador; Eduardo Belgrano Rawson, Argentina; Marco Martos, Perъ; Lolo Rico, Espaсa; Irene Vasco, Colombia; Ana Esther Ceceсa, Mйxico; Iris M. Zavala, Puerto Rico; Salim Lamrani, Francia; Isidora Aguirre, Chile; Raъl Vallejo, Ecuador; Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Brasil; Vнctor Delfнn, Perъ; Daniel Freidembarg, Argentina; Jorge Riechmann, Espaсa; Leopoldo Brizuela, Argentina; Carlos Eduardo Satizбbal, Colombia; Nйstor Kohan, Argentina; Federico Бlvarez, Mйxico; Susana Cella, Argentina; Patricia Ariza, Colombia; Guillermo Saccomanno, Argentina; Jane Franklin, EEUU; Ricardo Capellano, Argentina; Rodrigo Quesada Monge, Costa Rica; Juan Carlos Martini, Argentina; Isaнas Peсa, Colombia; Graciela Araoz, Argentina; Бngeles Maestro, Espaсa; Josй Luis Mangieri, Argentina; Jean-Pierre Page, Francia; Eduardo Dalter, Alessandra Abbado, Italia; Gabriela Garcнa Cedro, Argentina; Argentina; Vito Giannoti, Italia; Joan Tafalla, Espaсa; Raъl Garcнa Lima, Argentina; Reinaldo Maia, Brasil; Francisco Josй Pйrez Esteban, Espaсa; Luciano Alzaga, Argentina; Tabajara Ruas, Brasil; Raъl Garcнa Luna, Argentina; Ana Pizarro, Chile; Cristina Xalma, Espaсa; Juan Sasturain, Argentina; Gabriel Bellomo, Argentina; Arturo Taracena Arriola, Guatemala; Mario Marino, Argentina; Silvia Werthein, Argentina; Juan Carlos Volnovich; Argentina; Coriъn Aharoniбn, Uruguay; Josй Antonio Rodriguez, Repъblica Dominicana; Carlos Morales, Costa Rica; Carlos Marнa Alsina, Argentina; Juan Carlos Junio, Argentina; Diana Bellessi, Argentina.