Humanity is Against the Coup in Brazil (Sign-on statement)

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Humanity is Against the Coup in Brazil

The undersigned, intellectuals, artists, writers and researchers from all over the world denounce the coup underway in Brazil and stand in solidarity with President Dilma Rousseff who was elected by 54 million Brazilians only one year and a half ago. 
 

 

This is not a traditional “political trial”, as the Globo Group is attempting to present it. Michel Temer, the visible face of the coup, has already expressed his intentions to bring the private banking sector into the public sphere and to focus in particular on a social policy of austerity for the poorest 5% of the country, which would mean to exclude the 36 million people from the Bolsa Familia. In addition Temer intends to move toward agreements with the United States and the European Union "with or without the Mercosur". In short his perspective is a Government for the elite of his country distanced from the majority and to wipe out forever the experience that the country had under the government of the Workers Party. 

Temer envisions himself to be the “new Macri” of Brazil, using the new government of Argentina as his model and advancing toward the dismantling of the state rarely seen in Argentina. It is not surprising then that the Foreign Ministry of that neighboring country has shamelessly supported the coup in Brazil under the guise of supporting its institutions. For everything that the coup makers have expressed and with their links to big business we consider the coup of the President de facto Michael Temer illegitimate and illegal. He has long ago proven that he is a corrupt politician who takes his orders from the darkest parts of the predatory oligarchy of that country. 

We are appealing to UNASUR to apply the established Protocol stating a Commitment to Democracy adopted by all the countries of the organization that could put the brakes on the deterioration of the democratic thread in Brazil. We also demand that the presidents and governments of the world do not recognize Temer and to demand the return of the legitimately elected President Dilma Rousseff. They should also end the political crisis by calling for an immediate presidential election – made by the President herself – so that the Brazilian people can once again express themselves by democratic means and not by an imposed coup d’état by a questionable and corrupt Congress. 

Nao vai ter golpe!

First signatures:

Alfredo Vera Arrata, Ecuador

Edmundo Aray, Venezuela

Fernando Buen Abad, México/Argentina

Fernando Rendón, Colombia

Gabo Sequeira, Argentina

Gilberto López y Rivas , México

Horacio López, Argentina

Jorge Nuñez Sánchez, Ecuador

Katiuska Blanco, Cuba

Manuel Santos Iñurrieta, Argentina

Pablo Guayasamín, Ecuador

Pepe Regato, Ecuador

Raúl Pérez Torres, Ecuador

Verenice Guayasamín, Ecuador

Cindy Sheehan, EEUU

Gayle McLauglin, EEUU

James Early, EEUU

Peter Phillips, EEUU

Nelson Valdes, EEUU

Piero Gleijeses, EEUU

Tom Hayden, EEUU

Michael Parenti, EEUU

Felix Salvador Kury, EEUU

Bill Hackwell, EEUU

Arnold August, Canada

Stephen Kimber, Canada

John Kirk, Canada

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