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Statement to the World
by Many Authors; May 02, 2003

To the conscience of the world

The international order has been violated as a consequence of the invasion
against Iraq. A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of
understanding, debate and mediation amongst countries. This power has
invoked a series of unverified reasons in order to justify its invasion.

Unilateral action has led to massive loss of civilian life an devastation
of one of the cultural patrimonies of humanity.

We only possess our moral authority, with which we appeal to world
conscience in order to avoid a new violation of the principles, which
inform and guide the global community of nations. At this very moment, a
strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has
been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for
an invasion. Therefore, we call upon citizens and policy makers to uphold
the universal principles of national sovereignity, respect of territorial
integrity and self-determination, essential to just and peaceful
co-existence among nations.

Mexico City, may day 2003

Signed Initially By:

Leopoldo Zea
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
Miguel León Portilla
Andrés Henestrosa
María Rojo
Jaime Labastida
Víctor Flores Olea
Federico Álvarez
Gilberto López y Rivas
Pablo González Casanova
Signed afterwards by the Nobel Prize Winners:
Rigoberta Menchú
Nadine Gordimer
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Gabriel García Márquez

Signed also by ZNet Associated Writers and Friends
Michael Albert
Noam Chomsky
James Petras
Tariq Ali
Eduardo Galeano
Edward S. Herman
Richard B. Du Boff
Nikos Raptis
William Blum
David Barsamian
Leslie Cagan
Tanya Reinhart
Katha Pollitt
Robert Jensen
Saul Landau
Patrick Bond
Will Doherty
Adele Oliveri
Suren Moodliar
Danny Glover
Marta Harnecker
William Blum
And signed also by: 
Mario Benedetti
Ernesto Cardenal
Oscar Niemeyer
Harry Bellafonte
Antonio Gades
Volodia Teitelboim
José Balmes
Jorge Enrique Adoum
Thiago de Melo
Daniel Viglietti
Pino Solanas
Jorge Sanjinés
Luisa Valenzuela
Luis Sepúlveda
Abelardo Castillo
Sylvia Iparraguirre
Fernando García
Eduardo Mignogna
Tristan Bauer
Eduardo Pavlovsky
Norman Brisky
Noé Jitrik
Mempo Giardinelli
Miguel Bonasso
Andrés Rivera
Emir Sader
Atilio Borón
Arcira Argumedo
Gianni Miná
Claude Couffon
Roy Brown
Paul Estrade
Hebe de Bonafini
Santiago García
Ariel Dorfman
Claudia Korol
Nelson Osorio
Hildebrando Pérez
Giulio Girardi
Piero Vivarelli
Juan Antonio Hormigón
Rosa Vicente
Deonisio da Silva
Henri Alleg
Fernando Aínsa
Danny Rivera
Pablo Marcano
Armando Gnisci
Margaret Randall
Heinz Dietrich Steffan
Angela Correa
Miguel Vayo
Horacio González
Liliana Herrero
Dolly Oussi
Rodolfo Hermina
Jane Franklin
Mamani Mamani
Néstor Cohen
Manuel Cabieses Donoso
Claufe Rodrigues
Alessandra Riccio
Rosa María Robles
Mayté Pinero
Bia Falbo
Tony Ryan
Brian Willson
Jorge Pixley
Ivana Jinkings
Evaristo Villar
Miguel Urbano
Joao Pedro Stedile
Ana Esther Ceceña
Rosy Zúñiga
Stefaan Declercq
Ricardo Gebrim
Raúl Zibechi
María Poumier
Rosalyn Baxandall
Nancy Rice
Louis Segal
Víctor Heredia
Beth Carvalho
Vera de Abreu Figuereido
Nelson Rodrigues Filho
Marilia Barbosa
Mauricio Figueredo
María José Zack
Arthur Poerner
Rodolfo Livingston
James D. Cockcroft
Teotonio Dos Santos
Jean Carey Bond
Abelardo Castillo
Néstor Kohan
Roxanne Dumbar Ortiz
Eduardo Auer
Alberto Pablo Ruiz
Alejandra Beatriz Camba
Rosa Ma. D´ Alesio de Velarde
Matías Scaglione
Ana de Mario
Cuauhtemoc Amescua
Beatriz Palacios
Carlos Carvajal
Patricia Barbieri
Héctor Celano
Francisco de Alentar
Beatriz Kajt
Julio Carabeli
Lita Stantic
Chude Allen
David Barkham
Fernando Quilodrán
Daniel Randazo
Francisco Alday Torre
Alicia Jrapko
Peter Ranis
Gerardo D. Etcheverry
Michael Gasser
Diego Muñoz
Gervasio Espinosa
José L. Ronconi
Martín de Mauro
Rina Bertacani
Roberto Curie
Inés Izaguirre
Austin Hingey
Diego Muñoz
Abelardo Castillo
Sylvia Ipaguirre
Carlos Zamorano
Graciela Rosenblum
Enrique Rajchenberg
Gudrun Lekensdorf
Carlos Lekensdor
Alicia Pelliza
Carlos Sbriller
Anna Escudero Baltasar
Patricio A Brodsky
Francisco Calderón Sánchez de Roja
Cristina Barros Valero
Marco Buenrrostro
Veitia Iddia
Cecilia Fridman
Leslie Hoag Hope
Coriún Aharonian
Alfonso Sastre
Uzma Aslam Khan
Tununa Mercado
Alicia Castellanos Guerrero
Mario Casartelli
Simón J. Ortiz
Alejandro Stuart
Josefina Morales Ramírez
Renato Prada Oropeza
Felipe Lampero
Fernando Butazzoni
Raúl Ariza 
René Benedicto