The war in Ukraine, far from finding a way out, has entered its fourth month, reviving the debate on the management of the conflict. That is why some forty Spanish and Ibero-American intellectuals, especially in the field of letters, released a manifesto yesterday, Friday, calling for a "negotiated solution for peace in Ukraine."
Among the signatories are writers, politicians and journalists, and the text is headed by the Argentine Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1980. Among the personalities from Spain are the magistrate and former mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena, the former judge Baltasar Garzón and the writer Rosa Montero.
The text agrees with some of the claims that are the protagonists until this Sunday, the days of protest for the NATO summit that Madrid will host in five days. The publication also rejects some of the main measures that the Western powers have agreed to deal with the Russian invasion, such as "the massive shipment of weapons" and the economic sanctions "that affect and impoverish globally".
"Peace agreed, now!
Let the powers of the world stop and sit down to negotiate peace in Ukraine, now!
That a Ukraine-Russia negotiating table, with commitments for all the states involved, dialogue without stopping until an agreement is reached.
Let the missiles and bombs be silent so that the peoples speak.
May an agreed and fulfilled peace end the suffering, massive exile and hunger that this confrontation has caused.
No to the tanks that invade and devastate, no to the harassment with massive shipment of weapons, war propaganda in the media and economic punishments that affect and impoverish globally.
No to the arms race, which promotes wars as a business.
No to the damage that War inflicts on Earth and all its creatures.
No to the nuclear threat.
Yes to the freedom and sovereignty of nations.
May a peace sought and found free humanity from a conflict of greater scope."
The list of signatories includes, in addition to the names already mentioned: Pepe Mujica, former president of Uruguay; the singer Miguel Ríos; Esther García, film producer; Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Director of the Culture of Peace Foundation and former Director General of UNESCO; the writer Martin Caparrós; Colombian writers Ricardo Silva and Helena Urán Bidegain; Xavi Ayén, journalist from La Vanguardia; Laura Restrepo, writer; Cristina Rivera Garza, writer and teacher. (Mexico united states); Chico Buarque, writer and singer (Brazil); Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sociologist and writer (Portugal); Juan José Tamayo, Liberation theologian, professor (Spain); Carol Proner, Law professor and essayist (Brazil); Nativel Preciado, writer (Spain); Cristina Almeida, lawyer, former deputy, activist (Spain); Antonio Rubio, president of the Association of Investigative Journalists (API) (Spain); Javier Baeza, parish priest of Entrevías (Madrid, Spain); Lidia Cacho, writer and defender of Human Rights (Mexico); Eliane Brum, writer (Brazil); Francisco Louça, Professor of Economics and essayist (Portugal); Carlos Payan Velver, former senator of the Republic, Director-Founder of the newspaper La Jornada (Mexico); Martin Caparrós, writer (Argentina); Carol Proner, writer, teacher (Brazil); Pilar del Río, president of the José Saramago Foundation; Ernesto Samper Pizano, former president of the Republic of Colombia; Armando Wouriyu Valbuena, Secretary of the High-Level Special Instance of Ethnic Peoples (IEANPE) (Colombia); Carmen Gembuel Quiguanas, Senior Counselor of the CRIC (Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca) (Colombia); José Domingo Caldon, Senior member of the political team of the CRIC (Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca) (Colombia); Margarita Rosa de Francisco, actress and artist (Colombia); Patricia Lara, writer, journalist. Founder of Cambio Magazine (Colombia); Daniel Coronell, journalist, president of Cambio magazine (Colombia); Carolina López, editor (Colombia); Helena Urán Bidegain, writer (Colombia); Antonio Navarro Wolff, former senator of the Republic, president of the National Constituent Assembly (Colombia); Armando Novoa García, former magistrate of the National Electoral Council, former president of the Legislative Commission of the Constituent Assembly (Colombia); Camilo González, former Minister of Health (Colombia).
