Argentina calls for an end to aggressions against Cuba

Buenos Aires, July 5 (RHC) Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and several intellectuals and human rights defenders in Argentina today backed the international demand for the exclusion of Cuba 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 those present, the Instituto Espacio para la Memoria 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 Instituto Espacio para la Memoria reiterates the urgent need to remove the island from this list and to put an end to the unjust siege and to all types of unilateral coercive measures against a dignified people that does not submit to the pressures of the U.S. government, concludes the message. (Source: PL)