{"id":43062,"date":"2020-10-26T22:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=43062"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:57:39","slug":"charter-of-madrid-51-personalities-warn-on-the-resurgence-of-the-communist-yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/10\/26\/charter-of-madrid-51-personalities-warn-on-the-resurgence-of-the-communist-yoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Charter of Madrid: 51 personalities warn on the resurgence of the communist yoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>31 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Europe, this totalitarian ideology is making a comeback, this time in America.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/07\/05\/communism-the-master-of-nazism-this-is-how-red-terror-inspired-the-nazi-dictatorship\/\">Communism, the master of nazism: this is how red terror inspired the nazi dictatorship<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/12\/anti-racism-black-lives-matter-attacks-a-memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism\/\">Anti-racism? Black Lives Matter attacks a memorial to the victims of communism<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Communism, which has been imposing its oppression on Cuba for 61 years, is the totalitarian ideology that also inspires other tyrannical regimes such as those of Venezuela and Nicaragua<\/strong>, and it is also promoting subversive movements in other American countries, including the United States. Faced with the resurgence of that totalitarian threat, <a href=\"https:\/\/fundaciondisenso.org\/2020\/10\/26\/carta-de-madrid-en-defensa-de-la-libertad-y-la-democracia-en-la-iberosfera\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">today the Disenso Foundation (Spain) has published the so-called \"Charter of Madrid\"<\/a>, a manifesto \"in defense of freedom and democracy in the Iberian sphere\" signed by 51 personalities from various countries. <strong>For your interest I offer you here the full text along with the list of signatories<\/strong> (translation by Counting Stars):<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><big>Charter of Madrid: in defense of freedom and democracy in the Iberian sphere<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>More than 700 million people are part of the Iberosphere<\/strong>, a community of free and sovereign nations that share a deep-rooted cultural heritage and have great economic and geopolitical potential to address the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Iberosphere has all the conditions to be a region of freedom, prosperity and equality before the law.<\/strong> Its peoples are not condemned by any kind of historical determinism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>However, a part of the region is kidnapped by communist-inspired totalitarian regimes<\/strong>, supported by drug trafficking and third countries. All of them, under the umbrella of Cuba and initiatives such as<strong> the S\u00e3o Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group, which infiltrate the centers of power to impose their ideological agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The threat is not confined exclusively to the countries that suffer the totalitarian yoke. <strong>The ideological and criminal project that is subjugating the freedoms and rights of the peoples of the region has the objective of entering other countries and continents<\/strong> in order to destabilize liberal democracies and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Through this Charter of Madrid<\/strong>, supported by different political and social leaders with different and even divergent views and ideas, <strong>we want to affirm that:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The advance of communism poses a serious threat to the prosperity and development of our nations<\/strong>, as well as to the freedoms and rights of our compatriots.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The rule of law, the separation of powers, freedom of speech and private property are essential elements that guarantee the proper functioning of our societies<\/strong>, which is why they must be especially protected against those who try to undermine them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The defense of our freedoms is a task that belongs not only to the political sphere, but also to institutions<\/strong>, civil society, the media, academia, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The future of the Iberosphere countries must be based on respect for democracy<\/strong>, human rights, pluralism, human dignity and justice, for which the undersigned express their commitment to work together in the defense of these values and principles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SIGNATORS OF THE CHARTER OF MADRID<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Aldo Mariategui<\/strong>, journalist (Peru).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alejandro Chafuen<\/strong>, International General Director of The Acton Institute (Argentina \/ USA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alfredo Mago<\/strong>, National Labor Commissioner of Vente Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antonio Ledezma<\/strong>, former Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antonio Rodiles<\/strong>, Cuban opponent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aquiles Martini Pietri<\/strong>, Member of SoyVenezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arturo Murillo<\/strong>, Minister of Government of Bolivia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biagio Pilieri<\/strong>, Head of the parliamentary fraction 16 de Julio (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carlos Bastardo<\/strong>, National Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carlos Salazar<\/strong>,Coordinator of the Coalici\u00f3n Sindical de Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carlos Ortega<\/strong>, President of the union Confederaci\u00f3n de Trabajadores de Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cristian \u00c1lvarez<\/strong>, Deputy of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diego Arria<\/strong>, former Governor of Caracas and former President of the UN Security Council.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dignora Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eduardo Bolsonaro<\/strong>, Federal Deputy for the State of Sao Paulo (Brazil).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui<\/strong>, actor and advisor to the White House Initiative for Hispanic Prosperity, promoted by President Trump (Mexico).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edwin Luzardo<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enrique Aristeguieta Gramcko<\/strong>, Political leader and member of the Patriotic Board of 1958 (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Esteban Torres Cobo<\/strong>, Member of the National Assembly of Ecuador.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fernando Doval<\/strong>, Secretary of Studies and Strategic Analysis of the National Action Party (Mexico).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Giorgia Meloni<\/strong>, President of Fratelli d\u00b4Italia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grover Norquist<\/strong>, President of Americans for Tax Reform (USA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Helen Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, former Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hermann Tertsch<\/strong>, MEP and patron of the Fundaci\u00f3n Disenso (Spain).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humberto Calder\u00f3n Berti<\/strong>, ex Ministro de Energ\u00eda y Minas y ex Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jes\u00fas Petit DaCosta<\/strong>, ex-Magistrate and former Attorney General of the Republic of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John D. Fonte<\/strong>, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Common Culture of the Hudson Institute (USA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast<\/strong>, Presidento of the Republican Party of Chile.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jos\u00e9 Luis Pirela<\/strong>,Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Juan Carlos Bol\u00edvar<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Juan Pablo Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lorenzo Montanari<\/strong>, Executive Director of Property Rights Alliance (USA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luis Barrag\u00e1n<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Margarita Restrepo<\/strong>, Senator of the Republic of Colombia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/strong>, National Coordinator of Vente Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar\u00eda Fernanda Cabal<\/strong>, Senator of the Republic of Colombia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melquiades Pulido<\/strong>, entrepreneur (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>, writer and journalist (USA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milos Alcalay<\/strong>, former Ambassador of Venezuela and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nafir Morales<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nitu P\u00e9rez Osuna<\/strong>, journalist (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Noel \u00c1lvarez<\/strong>, Member of Soy Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Omar Gonz\u00e1lez Moreno<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paola Holguin<\/strong>, Senator of the Republic of Colombia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pablo Viana<\/strong>, National Deputy of Uruguay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pedro Urruchurtu<\/strong>, Vice President of the Liberal Network of Latin America (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Richard Blanco<\/strong>, Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roger Noriega<\/strong>, former US Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) with President George W. Bush.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Santiago Abascal<\/strong>, President of Disenso Foundation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vladimir Petit Medina<\/strong>, academic (Venezuela).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zo\u00e9 Vald\u00e9s<\/strong>, Cuban writer and dissident.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Europe, this totalitarian ideology is making a comeback, this time in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[14374,10444,14375,14377,14376],"class_list":["post-43062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-charter-of-madrid","tag-communism","tag-disenso-foundation","tag-puebla-group","tag-sao-paulo-forum"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-27 02:47:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}