{news} Solidarity Action for CTGP?: USGP-INT IC letter to Peruvian officials

Justine McCabe justinemccabe at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 4 07:25:04 EST 2005


Dear CTGP Executive Committee and all Greens,

Below is a letter (in Spanish and English) drafted by IC members to the 
office of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo/Peruvian officials on behalf 
of Flor. As IC Co-chair Tony Affigne writes, "With appropriate revisions, 
this can serve as the basis for additional letters from state parties. 
Please do what you can to help spread the word on Flor's behalf."

US Greens may not be hold office as widely as we'd like but surely we can 
speak out in solidarity with international Greens who are endangered.  I'd 
be happy to modify this slightly with mention of CTGP if EC will email to 
officials listed below.

Justine

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Presidente Alejandro Toledo
Presidente de la República
Palacio de Gobierno - Lima
República del Perú

Su Excelencia:

Le escribimos con el mayor respeto, pero también
con gran consternación, para pedir urgentemente
su ayuda. Hemos recibido noticia que dos
pistoleros intentaron asesinar a nuestra querida
amiga Flor de María Hurtado Valdez, Secretaria
General del Partido Verde Alternativa de Perú y
Regidora de la Municipalidad de Iquitos.

Se nos ha informado también que ella está en
peligro a causa de su trabajo en defensa de los
pueblos indígenas y el medio ambiente del bosque
amazónico en la región de Loreto.

Esperamos que usted haga todo lo posible para
proteger la vida de Flor. Ella es una lideresa
bien conocida entre los partidos verdes de todas
la Américas y en el mundo entero, y sentimos
profundamente cualquier peligro que la amenaza.
Flor es nuestra amiga y compañera y le pedimos a
usted que su gobierno reconozca la importancia de
ella al pueblo de Perú así como al prestigio
internacional de su país.

También pedimos que trabaje por la derogatoria de
la Ley Forestal No. 27308 y de las Concesiones
Forestales en la Amazonía del Perú y para parar
el despropósito de la subasta de bosques en esa
región.  La destrucción de su patrimonio
viviente, los pulmones del planeta, no puede ser
una ruta sostenible hacia el progreso económico y
social.

Respetuosamente,

Dr. Tony Affigne
Dra. Julia Willebrand
Co-Presidentes
Comité Internacional
Partido Verde de los Estados Unidos
PO Box 57065, Washington, DC 20037, USA
mailto:intcomm at gp-us.org
http://www.greenpartyus.org

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Your Excellency:

We write to you with deepest respect, but also
great concern, to request your urgent assistance.
It has come to our attention that our dear friend
Flor de María Hurtado Valdez, Secretary General
of the Partido Verde Alternativa de Perú, and
Regidora de la Municipalidad de Iquitos, has been
the target of an assassination attempt.

We have also learned that she is in danger
because of her effective work on behalf of the
Indigenous people, and the natural environment,
of the Amazon forest in the region of Loreto.

We urge you to do whatever you can to protect
Flor's life. She is a very well known leader
among Green parties everywhere in the Americas,
indeed, in the world, and we feel very deeply any
danger which confronts her. She is our friend and
our compañera, and we ask that your government
recognize her importance, both to the people of
Perú, and to your nation's international prestige.

We also urge you to work for repeal of the Forest
Law Number 27308 and the Forest Concessions in
the Amazon area of Perú, and call a halt to any
further timber auctions in that region. The
destruction of your living patrimony, the lungs
of the planet, can never be a sustainable route
to economic and social progress.

Respectfully,

Dr. Tony Affigne
Dr. Julia Willebrand
Co-Chairs
International Committee
Green Party of the United States
PO Box 57065, Washington, DC 20037, USA
mailto:intcomm at gp-us.org
http://www.greenpartyus.org

These are the officials who received the letter:

Presidente Alejandro Toledo
Presidente de la República del Perú (President of the Republic of Perú)
Casa de Gobierno - Lima
atoledo at presidencia.gob.pe

Señor Félix Murazzo Carrillo
Ministro del Interior (Minister of the Interior)
Plaza 30 de Agosto N° 160 - Lima
ministro at mininter.gob.pe
fmurazzo at mininter.gob.pe

Eduardo Bruce Montes de Oca
Presidente Ejecutivo, Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión del Perú
   (Executive President, National Institute of Radio and Television)
Av. José Gálvez N° 1040 Santa Beatriz - Lima
presidencia at irtp.com.pe
ebruce at irtp.com.pe

Sr. Robinson Rivadeneyra Reatigui
Presidente del Gobierno Regional de Loreto
   (President of the Regional Government of Loreto)
Av. Abelardo Quiñones Km. 1.5 - Iquitos
rrivadeneyra at regionloreto.gob.pe

Ing. Manuel Reynaldo Manrique Ugarte
Ministro de Agricultura (Minister of Agriculture)
Pasaje Francisco de Zela 150 - Lima
mmanrique at minag.gob.pe







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