[NYTr] Campaign In Madrid Supports Latin American Sovereignty

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Campaign in Madrid Supports Latin America Sovereignty

Havana, Nov 15 (acn) Latin American Does Not Remain Silent is the name 
of a campaign led by more than fifty academics from Latin America and 
Europe in Madrid to support regional sovereignty.

According to a PL report, 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 metropolis 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.