They can cut a thousand flowers, but they can't stop the spring....

The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity calls attention to the strategic interest of overthrowing the progressive and revolutionary governments of our region by the local oligarchies aligned with the United States.

They intend to bring down the popular governments that are standing, to dismantle the advances in Latin American unity and to annul the leaderships that have been constituted because this can be electoral processes for the return of progressive and revolutionary forces where they have managed to remove them through institutional coups d'état or pre- or post-electoral frauds and scams. They go so far as to attempt the destruction of moral and historical references of leaders who are no longer with us like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and Néstor Kirchner.

The hegemonic media carry out a media lynching of the popular leaders with which they target the psychological ground in the masses so that the judiciary can then advance in its persecution and prosecution.

Like in the cases of Lula in Brazil and Rafael Correa in Ecuador the architecture of impunity has been set into motion against the popular and progressive camp and now they are doing it to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina as well as other former authorities and activists of her project. The impunity that gives them the right to occupy all the spaces of power, allows them to invent anything they like. They don't need proof. Their self-assumed superiority gives them heir to white democracies' with which our nation states were forged in blood and fire, is enough justification.

As in Brazil, where all that was needed was the “conviction” by a judge, formatted in the United States, to proclaim Lula was guilty sending him to prison in order to prevent the popular preference for his candidacy for president from becoming a reality. Or in Ecuador where they are trying to annul Rafael Correa by trying to incriminate him in an alleged unsuccessful kidnapping of a proven criminal character. Or they can invent all sorts of slanders confessed by businessmen who buy their impunity in exchange for accusations.

But when the evidence is convincing and points to its mercenaries or hit men, such as the drones that exploded near the Venezuelan president, it is not enough for the media monopolies to recognize that it was an obvious assassination attempt, and instead accuse their own victims. In the midst of countries in which the explosive mix of social consequences of neoliberal policies is forged, an offensive that is once again unleashed on those who represent social justice projects.

However, the popular rebellions are growing through all the veils of repressive and media shielding. That is why right-wing governments are continuously militarizing our societies in a preventive' way. They obey Washington's intention to fill our territories with its military bases and to reform and unify military doctrines, with the return of the national security doctrine. They aim to redirect the military force towards supposed internal enemies.

We repudiate the tour to South America by the head of the Pentagon, James Mattis, who came to ensure the growing U.S. control over our natural resources, the subordination of our national states and the strategic plan to overthrow the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, by force.

The peoples of our Americas, who have suffered more than 500 years of domination, will not abandon the emancipatory route that we build day by day. On the contrary, we will defend our popular leaders with whom we will continue to build the path of the Great Homeland.

End the persecution of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Rafael Correa!

Stop the general offensive against the government and people of Venezuela!

Free Lula!

21/08/2018

Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia; Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Dilma Rousseff, former president of the Federative Republic of Brazil; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Argentinian republic; Pablo González Casanova, former rector UNAM and José Martí International Prize of UNESCO, México; Roberto Fernández Retamar, president of Casa de las Américas, Republic of Cuba; Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Ernesto Villegas, Minister of Popular Power for Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; Ricardo Patiño Aroca, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Ecuador;  Danny Glover, United States;  Fernando Morais, Brazil; John Saxe Fernández, México; Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rico; Gabriela Rivadeneira, Ecuador; Martin Almada, Paraguay; Fernando Gonzalez LLort, Cuba; Iraida Vargas, Venezuela; Fernando Rendón, Colombia; Galo Mora, Ecuador; Hector Díaz Polanco, México; Frei Betto, Brazil; Hildebrando Pérez Grande, Perú; Piero Gleijeses, United States; Leonardo Boff, Brazil; Stella Calloni, Argentina; Pável Eguez, Ecuador; Mario Sanoja, Venezuela; Hugo Yasky, Argentina; James Early, United States; Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez, Mexico/Argentina; Gilberto López y Rivas, México; Gustavo Espinoza Montesinos, Perú; João Pedro Stédile, Brazil; Jose Pertierra, United States; Manuel Dammert, Perú; Teresa Castro, México; Pilar Bustos, Ecuador;  Carlos Molina Velázquez, El Salvador; Daniel Kovalik, United States; Alejandro Zúñiga, Australia; María Nela Prada, Bolivia; Estela Bravo, United States; Irene León, Ecuador; Bill Fletcher, Jr., United States; Oscar Bonilla, Ecuador;  H. Bruce Franklin, United States; Héctor Béjar Rivera, Perú; Lachlan Hurse, Australia; Rosa Salazar, Ecuador; Manuel Robles, Perú; Consuelo Sanchez, México; Jane Franklin, United States; Juan Cristóbal, Perú; Vicente Otta, Perú; Nelson Valdes, United States; Orlando Perez, Ecuador;  Rick Sterling, United States; Winston  Orrillo, Perú; T. M. Scruggs, United States; Eduardo González Viana, Perú; Margot Palomino, Perú; José Agualsaca, Ecuador; Oswaldo Galarza, Ecuador; Ricardo Ulcuango, Ecuador; Manuel Azuaje Reverón, Venezuela; Reinaldo Iturriza, Venezuela; Eleazar Díaz, Venezuela; María Fernanda Barreto, Venezuela; Rosa Miriam Elizalde, Cuba; Enrique Ubieta, Cuba; Manuel Santos, Cuba; Edwin Jarrin, Ecuador; Soledad Buendía, Ecuador

Secretariat of the Network in Defense of Humanity.

Pablo Sepulveda, Chile/Venezuela; Omar González, Cuba; Atilio Boron, Argentina; Carmen Bohórquez, Venezuela; Hugo Moldiz, Bolivia; Katu Arkonada, País Vasco; Angel Guerra, Cuba/México; Luciano Vasapollo, Italia; Marilia Guimaraes, Brasil; Nayar López, México; Chandra Muzaffar, Malasia; David Comissiong, Barbados; Alicia Jrapko, Estados Unidos; Paula Klachko, Argentina; Roger Landa, Venezuela; Ariana López, Cuba