“Let’s Defend the Great Latin American Homeland” was the call of UNEAC and its artists, as a “clear condemnation of the threat and danger of war that threaten Latin America and the Caribbean,” in the face of provocations launched in the region, what also goes “against the sustained and increasing aggressions on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the brotherly people of Cuba,” stated UNEAC.

On August 29, the Cuban Writers and Artists Association also issued a statement calling on intellectuals from around the world, particularly those from Latin America, to take action to denounce the risk posed by the deployment of US military forces in the Caribbean Sea.

In the face of the escalating aggression against Simon Bolivar’s homeland, at this crucial time for the stability of the region, we ratify our solidarity to our Venezuelan brothers and sisters. Let us all work for peace and the independence of nations. Through art and literature, with the bastion of creation and culture that identify us, let us confront the threat of the current United States government, he wrote.

Let us prevent the undermining of the principles of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, signed by the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in January 2014.

Thousands of personalities and organizations have signed this Declaration for the sovereignty of our America: in the struggle against imperialism, including Germany, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and much of Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa.

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