Discutia Federacion de Jovenes Liberales Europeos Resolucion de Apoyo a la Libertad de Expresion en Cuba

Discutirá Federación de Jóvenes Liberales Europeos Resolución de Apoyo a
la Libertad de Expresión en Cuba

2006-03-24

La Federación de Juventudes Liberales Europeas, Lymec, discutirá en su
Congreso Anual, que tendrá lugar entre el 7 y el 9 de Abril de 2006 en
la ciudad de Winterthur, a las afueras de Zürich, Suiza, una resolución
redactada por organizaciones liberales de España, Cataluña, Italia y
Suecia. Dicha resolución promueve la libertad de expresión en Cuba,
mediante apoyo directo y reconocimiento tácito a la labor que ejercen
las Bibliotecas Independientes en la isla.

La exiliada cubana Mae Liz Orrego Rodríguez, Presidenta del Comité de
Asuntos Internacionales de la Asociación de Jóvenes Liberales de Suecia,
tomará parte en dicho certamen. Seguidamente la versión en inglés de la
resolución arriba mencionada:

RESOLUTION FOR SUPPORTING CIVIC ACTIONS IN FAVOR OF THE TRANSITION
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY IN CUBA.

Taking into consideration that:

Berta Mexidor and Ramón Humberto Colás initiated in 1998 the Independent
Libraries project with the purpose of contributing to the ideological
diversity and to the non dogmatic civic education.

In order to achieve this objective within the Cuban democratic movement,
many dissidents transformed their homes into free spaces of debates.
They also organized workshops, lectures, youth activities, different
performances, book presentations, debates, among other activities.

Since 1998 many librarians have been victims of threat and violence.

During the mass arrests of March 2003, approximately 26 librarians were
arrested.

Due to the current severe repression the situation has become worse in a
total of eight out of the fourteen provinces in the country, leading to
a recurrent plundering of the Independent Libraries by the Cuban
authorities.

*Despite the represion there still exists over a dussin of independent
libraries that keep working against totalitarism.

We therefore resolve:

• To support the Independent Libraries in order to promote civic and
political freedom in Cuba.

• To denounce the situation which the Independent Libraries are exposed
to, through an official statement addressed to the European Parliament,
all Cuban embassies in Europe and all Foreign Ministries of the European
Union.

Promoting this Resolution:

Liberala ungdomsförbundet, Sweden
Juventudes Liberales de España, Spain
FdGLI - Federazione Giovani Liberali Italiani, Italy
JNC, Catalonia

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