Noi, i sottoscritti, siamo naturalmente preoccupati per la pandemia da Covid/19 che ha causato un grande numero di contagiati e di vittime in tutto il mondo e offriamo la nostra solidarietà alle famiglie in lutto.

Mentre gli operatori sanitari del settore pubblico e privato lottano eroicamente contro il coronavirus, molti governi ne stanno profittando per prendere misure che restringono sine die le nostre libertà fondamentali e i nostri diritti civili.

Invece di ridurre, comprensibilmente, alcune libertà, in dati Paesi è stata instaurata una quarantena stretta, l’impossibilità di lavorare e produrre, insieme a una forte manipolazione dell’informazione.

Alcuni governanti hanno colto l’opportunità per arrogarsi un potere eccessivo. Hanno sospeso lo Stato di diritto, finanche la democrazia rappresentativa e il sistema legale. Nelle dittature del Venezuela, Cuba e Nicaragua, la pandemia è diventata un pretesto per aumentare la persecuzione politica e l’oppressione.

In Spagna e in Argentina, alcuni leader chiaramente ideologizzati stanno cercando di sfruttare le difficili circostanze per gestire problematiche politiche ed economiche con soluzioni che i cittadini rifiuterebbero in maniera determinata in altro contesto. In Messico, la pressione contro le società private si va intensificando, mentre il Gruppo Puebla viene usato per attaccare leader di diversi partiti.

Su entrambe le sponde dell’Atlantico lo statalismo, l’interventismo, il populismo risorgono con un impeto che suggerisce un cambio di modello rispetto a quello della democrazia liberale e del mercato libero.

Noi vogliamo affermare con forza che codesta crisi non può essere affrontata sacrificando i diritti e le libertà che ci siamo così faticosamente guadagnati. Noi ripudiamo il falso assunto che queste circostanze ci costringono a scegliere tra l’autoritarismo e l’insicurezza, tra l’Orco Filantropico e la morte.

Madrid, Aprile 2020

Traduzione italiana, Rina Brundu

SIGNATORS

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