Posted on 03/14/2005 2:25:42 PM PST by srm913
About 200 intellectuals, activists and artists from Latin America and the United States issued a letter Monday urging the top United Nations human rights watchdog to choose Cuba's side in an expected battle over the communist country's rights record.
A U.S.-backed resolution to condemn the island's record is usually presented at every spring meeting in Geneva of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which this year was to open Monday and run through April 22.
No resolution targeting the island has emerged this year. But Cuba expects such a proposal will be presented and considered in mid-April.
"We urge the governments of the commission's member countries to not permit (the resolution) to be used to legitimize the anti-Cuban aggression of the administration of (U.S. President George W.) Bush," the letter said.
Washington maintains a four-decades-old trade embargo against the island, with trade and travel restrictions being steadily tightened in recent years.
Nobel Peace Prize laureates such as Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina and Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala signed the letter, as did South Africa's Nadine Gordimer and Portugal's Jose Saramago, both recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Among American signatories were actor Danny Glover, author Alice Walker and historian and activist Howard Zinn. Other international figures included filmmaker Walter Salles of Brazil, the music group Manu Chau and France's former first lady, Danielle Mitterrand.
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Such hypocrites. They will do anything for their communist masters.
"..Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala.."
The same commie that wrote a work of fiction and passed it off as her biography.
She's eaven admitted it.
The Nobel prize is not a good indicator of anything.
They love Castro after being in power for 45 years. Maybe if Bush becomes a dictator like Castro, these idiots will also fall in love with him. What is it with people and their collective orgasm for tyrannical dictators? I don't get it.
Alice Walker spoke at my school and spouted one transcendental banality after another. People walked out shaking their heads.
Herein South Florida you daily come into contact with many different folks from Cuba. The ones who came before castro are good,honest, hardworking types that I am proud to have as fellow American citizens.
The vast majority the came after the "revolution", are garbbge.
-About 200 intellectuals...-
New rule: If the first 3 words of an article are wrong, I don't read it.
the problem is that chavez is reinvigorating castro.
Does one need some kind of credentials to be an "intellectual"?
I don't condemn Cuba- I condemn the illegitimate, tyrannistic government that enslaves Cuba's people.
Ugh, Alice Walker.
She's from the same town as Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus author.
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