Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and several intellectuals and human rights defenders in Argentina today backed the international call for Cuba's exclusion from a U.S. list of alleged sponsors of terrorism.
Gathered at the Instituto Espacio para la Memoria (IEM), Pérez Esquivel, writer Stella Calloni, survivors of the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983) Ana María Careaga and Irma Medina, director and screenwriter Lita Stantic, member of the American Association of Jurists Claudia Rocca and photographer Adriana Lestido, expressed their solidarity with the Caribbean country and demanded an end to Washington's aggressions.
In a communiqué signed by them, the IEM demanded the U.S. government to immediately and completely remove Cuba from that ominous and arbitrary list.
This unjust and unilateral decision violates the Charter of the United Nations and the resolutions of the General Assembly. What is even more serious, it adds to the damage caused by a criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade, whose extension over time subjects the Cuban people to suffering and inhumane conditions that violate international norms and human rights, the text points out.
The IEM reiterates the urgent need to remove the island from that list and put an end to the unjust siege and all kinds of unilateral coercive measures against a dignified people, who do not submit to the pressures of the U.S. government, concludes the message.