Scholars Defend Latin
America
Over 50 outstanding
academics from Latin
America and Europe
started Thursday a
campaign entitled "Latin
America does not remain
silent," in defense of
regional sovereignty.
The action criticizes
the Spanish King's
attitude against
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez in the Ibero-American
Summit, and states that
what happened there
"testifies that times
have changed in Latin
America."
The initial text of the
campaign expresses that
voices from natives and
the oppressed have
definitely entered the
Ibero-American political
stage, and neither
monarchs nor neoliberals
will keep them quiet.
The document also
recalls that the Summit
looked at poverty,
exclusion and
marginality of the
majority of the
continent and its
relation to ancient
colonial metropolii or
the continued domination
of European and US
transnational companies.
King Juan Carlos ordered
the Venezuelan president
to shut up in the
Summit, when the latter
termed Aznar a fascist.
Current President of the
Spanish Government Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
also defended Aznar.
Among signers are
Spanish Alfonso Sastre,
Ignacio Ramonet, Pascual
Serrano, Belen Gopegui,
Constantino Bertolo,
Ramon Chao, Montserrat
Ponsa, Miguel Riera
Montesinos and Higinio
Polo, and Mexicans Pablo
Gonzalez Casanova, John
Saxe Fernandez, Victor
Flores Olea and Fernando
Buen Abad.
Also on the list are
Cuban Roberto Fernandez
Retamar, Venezuelan
Andres Izarra,
Ecuadorian Pablo
Guayasamin, Argentineans
Atilio Boron and Víctor
Ego Ducrot, Belgian
Michel Collon, Colombian
Fernando Rendon, Chilean
Manuel Cabieses, Puerto
Ricans Danny Rivera and
Rafael Cancel Miranda,
and US James Cockcroft.
Also included are
Dominican Hector Diaz
Polanco, French Salim
Lamrani, Peruvian
Hildebrando Perez, and
Colombian Hernando Calvo
Ospina, among others. |
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