Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 16:55:24 -0200
From: OSPAAAL Solidaridad
Meeting against PLAN COLOMBIA

Dear Friends:

OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, in continuation of the work connected to the Peace Process in Colombia launched with the celebration of the Alcalá Conference last June and thePlatform for International Democratic Resistence, respond to this summons by inviting you to taake part in this meeting.

The undersigned:

Adolfo PÉREZ ESQUIVEL, Peace Nobel Prize, Argentina; Raul ALFONSÍN, former president of Argentina; Eduardo GALEANO, writer from Uruguay; Luis Ignacio LULA DA SILVA, Presidential candidate and leader of the Workers Party of Brasil; Bautista VIDAL, phísician from Brasil; Rodrigo BORJA, former president of Ecuador; Rodrigo CARAZZO, former president Costa Rica; Rigoberta MENCHU, Peace Nobel Prize, Guatemala; professor Heinz DIETERICH, President of Foro por la Emancipación e Identidad de América Latina, México; professor James PETRAS, State University of New York; Robert WITHE, United States former ambassador in El Salvador; professor Noam CHOMSKY, MIT; Reverend Jesse JACKSON, United States; professor R. James SACOUMAN, Acadia University Wolfville of Nova Scotia; professor Henry VELTMEYER, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada; Danielle MITTERAND, President of France Liberté; José SARAMAGO, Literature Nobel Prize, Portugal; OSPAAAL-Solidaridad, Spain and International Democratic Resistence.

CONSIDERING

1. That Plan Colombia implies, once again, the direct military intervention os the United States in the internal affairs of a sovereign Latin America state, the Republic of Colombia, along the lines of the Monroe Doctrine; the Roosevelt Corollary; the overthrow of the legitimate government of Salvador Allende in Chile; the continuous aggressions against the government of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; the direct Participation in the war in Central America; and its continued hostility towards Cuba through the maintenance of a criminal embargo, in spite of the annual reaction from the United Nations.
2. That the aforementioned intervention constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and a people's right to self-determination, and a threat to peace and stability in the region.
3. That due its nature as a counteringsurgency, Plan Colombia is directed primarily against the civilian population of Colombia and has the immediate objective of neutralising or destroying resistence by any individual opposed to the project of neoliberal restructuring of the Colombian and Latin American economies.
4. That Plan Colombia is in fatc a military project that involves the countries of the region, commits them in various ways to intervention and is without any doubt aimed at gaining control of the Amazon basin, affecting the sovereignty of the countries that form it. It threatens the consolidation of the process led by Commander Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and effects those Central American countries committed to peaceful democratic development.
5. That Plan Colombia, by its nature as a plan for war, constitutes the principle obstacle to the search for alternative solutions to war in the resolution of the Colombian conflict.
6. In adition to that this produce a big movement to neighbour countries of civil population from attacking areas.
7. The use of modern war technologies including biologicals arms against coca plantations, is an impredictable and risky danger for Amazonia, the most important biodiversity area of the world.
8. The Colombia Regional Interventional Military Plan weakens integration and good relation between neighbours and prepare new war's scenaries and in adition generate among region comunities distress and doubts.

RESOLVES

1. To draw the international public opinión and democratic world forces to support the International Meeting for the Colombian Peace, in San Salvador (El Salvador), 9th and 10th, March, 2001.
2. To condemn and refuses Plan Colombia as US intervention military Plan against pacific coexistence, democratic stability and economic development of Latin American countries.
3. To promote international solidarity among governements and countries in favour of Colombian people figths in order to find a diferent exits for current existing social conflict.
4. Generate and encrease friendship links to find and developed peace and social justice.
5. To support dialogue process among Colombian Government and growing social forces.
6. Support all proposition in order to substitute ilegal farming plantations and narcotrafic figths without war. This is a social and economic fenomenum concerning current humanity.

The Plan Colombia effects in the region, Schafik Handal.
The Plan Colombia and regional policies, James Petras.
The Plan Colombia and economy, Heinz Dieterich.
The Plan Colombia social angles, Noam Chomsky.
The Plan Colombia in relation with ecology and environment.
The Plan Colombia and regional military influencies, Coronel Lucio Gutierrez, Ecuador

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