Campaign launched by the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity
Latin America and the Caribbean continue to pay colonialist debts. These are foreign debts, ones that had been contracted in conditions that can only be described as illegitimate, deceitful or driven by corruption, undermining the sovereignty of the populations and forcing them to surrender all of their own wealth. Debts that are despicable, contracted under the reign of dictators, made only to subjugate and suppress, combined with the process of expansion of the debt in a way that can only be described as paradoxical: the more they are paid, the bigger they get. These are debts that have not been contracted to help the population, but to act against them.
The gunboats sent by the powers that had imposed these loans, in their desire to transform themselves into creditors in order to be able to maintain positions of control and plunder of the territories of Latin America and the Caribbean after the Wars of Independence, are back in our days in the shape of the US Navy’s Fourth Fleet, of the Plan Colombia, of the Mérida Initiative, of the Southern and Northern Commands, in combination with cunning financial mechanisms.
The debts that have been contracted in this manner are illegitimate and have already been paid several times over.
They establish the privilege of the policy of division and they eternally postpone work and acts that would be beneficial to these peoples. Furthermore, they justify and uphold impunity and corruption.
On the 20th of November, Ecuador, after having undertaken a complete audit of the case, decided to not recognise its own commitment to fulfil a debt that was inflated and illegitimate, exercising in this way their sovereignty and their right to self-governance. In an act of enormous historical importance, they decided to bring to court those who had contracted such a loan and used it in the name of the people.
Faced with the financial crisis and the economic recession that was provoked by the voracity of the transnational companies, who now want to make our peoples take upon themselves the burden the debts of others, it is indispensable to extend the definitive refusal of the payment of illegitimate debt to a worldwide level.
We, intellectuals, artists, social activists, committed to democracy, to the freedom and emancipation of all the people of the world, support the decision of the Ecuadorian government to not pay a debt that they rightfully did not contract, and we constitute ourselves as promoters of a worldwide network against illegitimate debt and against colonialist debts, in coordination with all of the initiatives towards the cancellation of colonialist debts.
It’s time to end colonialist debts. We want a free and sovereign Ecuador and Latin America, and we are committed towards reaching this goal.
Germany
Ulrich Brand, Dario Azzelini, Rainer Schlittgen, Ricarda Schlittgen, Gerhard Dilger, Irena Reinkemeyer-Hebel, Stefan Herbst, Hans-Ulrich Bünger (Ex-Director del ILDIS),
Argentina
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Premio Nobel de la Paz), Atilio Boron, Telma Luzzani, Carola Iñiguez, Víctor Ego Ducrot, Stella Calloni, Susana Moreira, Miguel Mirra, Guillermo Almeyra, Silvia Maldonado, Juan Wahren, Cristina Castello, Jorge Beinstein, José Seoane, Clara Algranatti, Emilio Taddei, José Luis Coraggio, Julio C. Gambina, Miguel Teubal, Patricio País Garay, Claudio Katz, Red Nacional de Medios Alternativos (RNMA), Carlos D. Pérez, José Pedro Lopardo Tellechea, Luciana García Guerreiro, Daniel Campione, Agustín Crivelli, Claudia Vespa, Lía Bruno, Javier Romero, Pedro Lanteri (Director de La Voz de las Madres), Susana Novick, Edith Alejandra Pantelides, Susana Murillo, Juan Minghetti, Gloria Colombo, Ricardo Montes, Santiago Lizuaín, Aldo Casas (Herramienta), Diego Ariel Fernández, Noemi Abad (Directora de Ecoportal.Net y de la Revista Ambiente y Sociedad), Ines Izaguirre, Carlos Aznarez, Mariana Portapila (Secretaria ATTAC Argentina), Norberto Ganci, El Club de la Pluma, Eduardo Lucita, Ariel Magirena (Canal 7), Patricio Varela, Fernando M. López, Bibiana Apolonia del Brutto, Virginia Amarilla, Irma Antognazzi, Camel Rubén Layún, Leandro Andrini, Foro Artiguista Entrerriano, Mauricio Castaldo, Adriana Riss, Aritz Recalde, Héctor Hugo Boleso, Andrés Méndez, Nora Ciapponi, Ana M Rodi, Maristella Svampa, Susana Fiorito, Andrés Rivera, María Elena Saludas, Fernando Lagrave, Sergio Leandro Agoff, Claudio Casparrino, Karim Nasser, Orietta Favaro, Mario Cafiero, Dora N. Rubillo, Aldo Tarantino, Luis Pil Ojeda, Ernesto Moreau, Silvia Starkoff, Gavino Casco, Adriana Rochetti, Eduardo Lucita, Gloria Rodríguez (Directora Escuela de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Rosario), Ada B Caracciolo, Claudia Korol, Marcelo Langieri, Paula Abal Medina, Victor Mazzalay, Alejandro Wajner, Leonardo Montero, Susana Sel, María Amalia García, Daniel Mojica, Nestor Napal, Renato Pravisani, Daniel Rodríguez, Blanca Fernández, Lía del Valle, Maya Lambert, Gastón Varesi, Daniel Barrantes, Heloisa Primavera (Red LASES), Rubén Gilardi, Sergio Bertini, Patricio Echegaray (Secretario General Partido Comunista), Maria Cristina Reartes, Ana María Ramb, Alcira Vaca, Daniel Silberman, Casa de Amistad Hoy Por Cuba, Lía Salas, Juan Carlos Pavoni (presidente de ALTERAGRO), Guillermo Miguel Galceroni, Niurka Garcia, Irene Sofía Antinori, Clara Colonna, Angel Sayago, Marta Delgado, Marisel Flores, Victoria Loredo Rubio, Teresa Norzagaray,
Australia
Alicia Monsech,
Belgium
François Houtart, Eric Toussaint (presidente Comité por la Abolición de la Deuda del Tercer Mundo), Bernard Duterme (CETRI), Francine Mestrum, Paul-Emile Dupret (Parlamento europeo), Patricia Parga-Vega, Alicia Jardel,
Bolivia
Francisco Mollo Calle (Presidente Asociación de Organizaciones de Productores Ecológicos de Bolivia), Alex Contreras Baspineiro, Escuela del Pueblo «Bolivia Digna», Pablo Stefanoni (director de Le Monde Diplomatiqueedición boliviana), Gertrudis Contreras, Hervé Do Alto, Carlos Moscoso Rodriguez, Gustavo Diez de Medina (PEAP/FONCRESOL),
Brazil
Frei Betto, Joao Pedro Stédile (Vía Campesina), Theotonio Dos Santos, Carlos Walter Porto Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Martins, José María Gómez, Marilia Guimarães, Sergio Lessa, Gustavo Erwin Kuss (Coordenação dos Movimentos Sociais-CMS-PR), Marise Ramos, Roberto Leher, Gaudencio Frigotto, Maria Luisa Mendonça (Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos), Plinio S. de Arruda Sampaio, Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Ivete Caribé da Rocha, Davi Gustavo de Carvalho, João Alexandre Peschanski, Luiz Alfredo Salomão, Zilda Márcia Grícoli Iokoi, María Teresa Solórzano, Mariana Pessah, Marianne Spiller, Gladys Floriani (Directora de la Casa Latinoamericana de Paraná), Maria Orlanda Pinassi, Reinaldo A. Carcanholo, Nalu Faria, Grasiela Cristina da Cunha Baruco, Marcelo Dias Carcanholo, Jorge Luiz A. Natal, Tárzia Medeiros, Pedro Ayres, Cassia Bechara, Pe. Lino Allegri, Mário Augusto Jakobskind, Elza Neves Moraes, Ivo Lesbaupin, Silvia Contreras, Henrique Pitt, Valter Xéu (Director Patria Latina), Ivo Poletto,
Canada
Paul Cliche, Pierre Mouterde, Michael Lebowitz, Reginaldo Rodríguez, Rodolfo Pino Robles, José Reyes (NORDIK),
Chili
Marta Harnecker, Orlando Caputo, Manuel Cabieses, Tomás Moulian, Maria Cristina Cruz Ulloa, Esteban Silva Cuadra (Comité Central del Partido Socialista), Lagos Nilsson, Graciela Galarce, Gustavo Ruz Zañartu, Rodrigo Sánchez Edmonson, Bernardo Reyes Ortiz (Director EticaenlosBosques), Manuel Baquedano (Presidente Instituto de Ecología Politica), Rafael Urriola,
Colombia
Francisco Beltrán, Gilberto Herrera Stella, Cecilia Ibagos Trujillo, Tarcisio Agramonte Ordóñez, Catalina Toro, Red Colombiana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio (RECALCA), Fernando Arellano Ortiz, Bayardo Ariza Olarte, Bernardo Parra Restrepo, Miguel Eduardo Cárdenas, Agustín Contreras, Virgilio Salerno (Director de Virtin Red Informativa), Jaime Zuluaga Nieto, Hildebrando Vélez, Luis Felipe Avella, Mario Bonilla,
Costa Rica
Gerardo Cerdas, Grito de los Excluidos/as, Alfredo Malespín (Secretario Ejecutivo de la Mesa Nacional Campesina), Eva Carazo, Iris Fernández Solano, Ariane Grau Crespo, Beatriz Castro Zúñiga (Red Costarricense de Agendas Locales de Mujeres), Jorge Coronado Marroquín (Comisión Nacional de Enlace ASC), Luis Gómez,
Cuba
Rev. Raúl Suárez Ramos (Director del Centro Dr Martin Luther King, y Diputado Nacional), Roberto Fernández Retamar, Isabel Monal, Fernando Martínez Heredia, Osvaldo Martínez, Pedro Monzón, Gilberto Valdés, Georgina Alfonso, Yohanka Leon, Alberto Perez, Humberto Miranda, Carlos Tablada, Joel Suarez, Adalys Vazquez, Ariel Dacla, Daysi Rojas, Centro Memorial Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr., Miriam Rodríguez, Diana M. López, Ramón Alejandro, Pedro Campos, Olivia Miranda Francisco, Idania Trujillo de la Paz, Jorge Ángel Hernández, Lydia Guevara Ramírez, Lázaro Peña, Graciela Guerrero Garay, Eugenio Espinosa, Jaime Devesa, Cristina López-Calleja Hiort-Lorenzen,
Dominican Republic
Chiqui Vicioso,
Ecuador
Alberto Acosta (Ex Presidente de la Asamblea Constituyente), Humberto Cholango, Confederación Kichwa del Ecuador (ECUARUNARI), Blanca Chancoso, Sally Burch, Osvaldo León, Eduardo Tamayo, René Báez, Enrique Ayala, Escuela Política de Líderes «Dolares Cacuango» –Ecuarunari, Rafael Quintero, Ana María Larrea, Erika Silvia, Pablo Ospina, Patricio del Salto, Helga Serrano, Diana Roldós, Margarita Aguinaga (CADTM), Ma. Del Pilar Troya, Inés Garzón Guerra, Movimiento Nacional de Mujeres de Sectores Populares, Rocío Bastidas Granizo, Rosa María Torres del Castillo, Cecilia Venegas de la Torre, Raúl Usca Santillán, Partido Socialista -Frente Amplio, Silvia Salgado, Audrey Portocarrero, Guillermo Navarro Jiménez, Nelly Benavides, Comité Científico de Psicología, Zaida Betancourt, Luisa Recchia, Marcela Benavides Galárraga, Gloria Arrobo Rodas,
El Salvador
Álvaro Darío Lara, Red De Ambientalistas en Acción, Red de Acción Ciudadana Frente al Libre Comercio SINTI TECHAN,
Spain
Francisco Fernández Buey, Manuel Talens, Juan Carlos Monedero, Pascual Serrano, Asamblea Local De Izquierda Unida -Alternativa Ciudadana De El Boalo, Juan Ramón Rodríguez Madridejos, José Guarc Pérez (Director revista Militante Mundo Rural), Maite Mola (Dirección del Partido Comunista y de Izquierda Unida), María José Rengel Mas, Félix Vázquez-Sixto, Monserrat Ponsa, Revista Viento Sur, Jaime Pastor, Miguel Angel Jordán León, Oficina de Derechos Sociales Patio Maravillas, Francisco Palacios Romeo, Ekologistak Martxan, Martin Mantxo, José Ramón García Menéndez, Jesús González Pazos (Responsable Área Indígena de Mugarik Gabe), Ana Rodríguez González, Pedro Antonio Sánchez Prieto, José Luis Gómez Toré, Jónatham F. Moriche, Iñaki Zelaia Eizagirre,
USA
Immanuel Wallerstein, Rev. Roy Bourgeois (School of Americas Watch), James Cockcroft, Karen Lee Wald, Refugio Del Rio Grande, Daniel del Solar, Frederique Apffel-Marglin (Emérita Anthropology Smith College),
France
Pierre Salama, Michael Lowy, Armand Mattelart, Ignacio Ramonet, Mireille Fanon-Mendes, Christophe Grigri, Michelle Aslanides, Michele Mattelart, Hernando Calvo, Alejandro Teitelbaum, Lidia Añaños Galindo (Asociación América Latina Publicaciones), Anne Robert, Franck Gaudichaud, Francis Gély, Monique Gély-Guidou, Fausto Giudice,
Guatemala
Simona Violetta Yagenova, Marcos Xicay Muj, Mildred López, Percy Alvarado, Mirna Ramírez, Andrés Cabanas,
Haiti
Lise-Marie Dejean, Didier Dominique,
Honduras
Wendy Cruz, Juan Almendares (Presidente del Movimiento Madre Tierra), Lorena Zelaya,
Italy
Giulio Girardi, Marco Consolo (Partido de la Refundacion Comunista Izquierda Europea), Bruno Antonio Bellerate, Antonio Melis, Luciano Vasapollo (Director revista Nuestra America), Alessandra Mecozzi, Giuseppe De Marzo -Asociacion A Sud, Gianluca Bifolchi, Ida Garberi,
Martinique
Philippe Pierre-Charles’Groupe Revolution Socialiste, Felix Relautte (CADMT),
Mexico
Pablo González Casanova, José Luis Ceceña, Miguel Concha, Víctor Flores Olea, Raúl Álvarez Garín, Felix Hernández Gamundi, Ana Esther Ceceña, Gilberto López y Rivas, Carlos Lenkersdorf, Carlos Fazio, Héctor Díaz Polanco, Magdalena Gómez, Enrique Leff, Oscar González, José Francisco Gallardo, Jorge Turner, Manuel Pérez Rocha (Rector UACM), Federico Alvarez, Gudrun Lenkersdorf, Angel Guerra, Jorge Fons (cineasta), Maricarmen Montes, Darío Salinas, Beatriz Stolowicz, John Saxe-Fernández, Edur Velasco, María del Rayo Ramírez, Miguel Álvarez, Comité Ejecutivo Nacional Democrático del SNTE, María Guerra, Daniel Inclán, Jose Steinsleger, Ricardo Melgar Bao, Nayar López, Rebeca Peralta, Walter Martínez, Observatorio Latinoamericano de Geopolítica, Israel Sampedro Morales (Red de Defensa de los Derechos Humanos), John Holloway, Amarela Varela, David Barkin, Aldo Rabiela, David Barrios, Rodrigo Yedra, Carolina Oropeza, Marco Velázquez, Ana Marìa Vera Smith, Jxel Rajchenberg (Viagem), Fernando Buen Abad, Yanna Hadatty Mora, Juan Brom, Luciano Concheiro, Carlos Beas, Eduardo Andrés Sandoval, Víctor García Zapata, Catalina Eibenschutz, Pablo Romo, Marco Antonio Velázquez Navarrete, Beatriz Aurora, Camilo Pérez Bustillo, Tlaxcala (red de traductores por la diversidad lingüística), Ana María Rivadeo, Iliana Camacho (ALAMES), Frida Modak, Carlos Narro (Radio UNAM), Ismael Palomares (Banda elástica), Jorge Lora, Herminia C. Foo Kong Dejo, Manuel de Jesús Corral, Maderas del Pueblo del Sureste, Ricardo Ocampo, Ana Buriano, Shanti Lesur, Enrique Cortés, Guillermo Torres Carral, Santos García, Bárbara Zamora, Arturo Guillén (Coordinador Posgrado Estudios Sociales UAM-I), Ricardo Bogrand, José-Antonio Aparicio, Mario Adrián Magadán, Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC), Pablo Romo, Jaime Lagunez Otero, Nemesio Juan Rodríguez Mitchell, José Martínez Cruz, Juliana G. Quintanilla, Marco Palma, Roberto Mendoza, Claudia Ortiz, Paloma Estrada, Damian Camacho, Alejandra Domingo, Comisión Independiente de Derechos Humanos de Morelos, Mario Monroy (Consejo Mexicano de Empresas de la Economía Solidaria), Altagracia Villarreal, Luis Lopezllera Méndez, Feliciano García Aguirre, Socorro Martínez,
Nicaragua
Guillermo Gómez S., Aldo Díaz Lacayo, Manuel Ortega Hegg, Evelyn Martínez (Primera Actriz Nacional), Brenda Elizabeth Molina,
Panama
Marco A. Gandásegui, Julio Yao, Guillermo C. Cohen-DeGovia, Elda Maud De León, Pedro Castillo, Conrado Sanjur, Coordinadora Popular de Derechos Humanos de Panamá, Pedro Castillo, Eric Fernàndez,
Paraguay
Martin Almada, Gustavo Codas, Roberto Colman (Conducción Nacional del Frente Social y Popular), Juan Diaz Bordenave, Carlota Villagra, Rene Villasboa, Orlando Castillo, Sixto Pereira, Hugo Ruiz Diaz, Ricardo Canese (parlamentario del MERCOSUR), Anibal Carrillo, Constancio Mendoza, Jorge Galeano, Angélica Otazú (AMUCOES),
Peru
Aníbal Quijano, Hugo Blanco, Carlos Bedoya (coordinador Red Jubileo Perú), Javier Diez Canseco, Partido Socialista, Diana Miloslavich, Carlos Torres Arguedas, Confederación General de Trabajadores del Perú (CGTP), Pedro Córdova Del campo (CEDAL), Andrés Luna Vargas (Presidente de CONVEAGRO Piura, Ex Presidente de la Confederación Campesina del Perú), Hernán Luis Carrasco, Augusto Malpartida, Jaime Vargas Luna, Segundo G. Guerrero Díaz, Juan Zenón Gutiérrez, Dante Lecca Lozano, Jose Coronado Cobeñas, Demus-Estudio para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer, Daniel Mathews, Virginia Vargas Valente, Gerardo Benavides Caldas, Mónica Bruckmann, Winston Orrillo (Premio Nacional de Cultura), Dante Lecca Lozano, Hilda Huaman, Rubén Cáceres «Marrón», Alberto Llona Lujan, Rosa Guillen, Raul Luna Rodriguez, Consumidores Por El Desarrollo, Antonio Romero Reyes, Alexis Nicolas Ibanez Blancas, Melva Chang, Milagros Valdeavellano Roca Rey, Margarita Recavarren Elmor, Urpi Gibbons, Alejanra Carpio, Palomiya Carpio, Paul Maquet Maquedownski, Silvia Carasco velit, Ceferina Huaytalla, Abdemia Sauñe, Betty Digo, María del Carmen Cuadros Salas, Rosa Cuadros de Solano, Manuel Mosquera, Gabriela Clavo Ocha, Cesar Vilcatoma Pillaca, Regina Arteaga, Nicolás Aza, Juana Cuadros Salas, Erasmo Cancho, César David Rodríguez Rodríguez, Irene Kitamura Navarro, Sofía Ochoa, Ana Herrera de Quevedo, Alcides Román, Programa de Educación por la Paz (PROEPAZ), Magdalena Santa María, Roberto Lay Ruiz, Nedda Angulo (Red Intercontinental de Promoción de la Economía Social Solidaria (RIPESS) Latinoamérica), Alfonso Cotera, Humberto Ortiz, Sebastian Tello del Carpio,
Portugal
Miguel Urbano, Boaventura de Sousa Santos,
Puerto Rico
Vilma Soto Bermúdez, Sandra Rodríguez-Beauchamp,
Sweden
Dick Emanuelsson, Magdalena Acuna,
Switzerland
Luisa Cruz Hefti,
Uruguay
Eduardo Galeano, Daniel Viglietti, Ana Juanche, Raúl Zibechi, Anahit Aharonian, Gabriela Rodriguez, Fernando Willat, Ruben Elías, SERPAJ América Latina, Ignacio Martínez, Joaquín Ernesto Etchevers Vianna, Beatriz Rosenblum, María M. Delgado, REDH -Red Solidaria por los DDHH, Luis Garcia Piriz, Valeria Plada, Lydia Ducret, Antonio Elías, Margarita Merklen, Mauricio Langon, Walter Caimí, Luis Garcia Piriz, Valeria Plada, María Margarita Mariño, Susana Casamayor, Pablo Noble, Pablo Guerra, Verónica Perèz Méndez, María G Alenadra, Sonia E. Durand,
Venezuela
Aram Aharonian, Lisa Sullivan (School of Americas Watch), Carmen Bohórquez, Judith Valencia, Humberto Mata, Pablo Kunich, Raúl Cazal, Joel Sangronis Padrón, Ildefonso Finol, Hernán López Gara, Red Venezolana Contra la Deuda (CADTM), Paulino Núñez, Federación de Estudiantes Universitarios de Venezuela (FEUV), Maribel Moreno Pérez,
Others
Juan Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Guillermo Molina Miranda, José Mª Burgaleta, Roberto Caballero (Director revista Veintitrés), Jaime Villanueva, Critica Medicina, Álvaro Campuzano Arteta, Juan Carlos Blotta, Mª Elena Ramos Arroyo, Ángel Llamuca, Luz Dary Bernal, Edgar Barrero Cuellar (Director Cátedra Libre Martín-Baró), Bertha Jáuregui, Ramiro Villamagua Carrión, Raúl-Ernesto de la Tierra, Mauricio Torres (ALAMES Andino), María Fernanda Moscoso, Alberto de Rosa, Luis Francisco Verano Paez (COLACOT), Oswaldo Torres Rodrìguez, Colectivo de Dirección Movimiento Guevarista Tierra Fértil, TLAXCALA, the network of translators for linguistic diversity
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