Open letter to Barack Obama: from a Nobel Laureate.

In an open letter to Barack Obama Adolfo Perez Esquivel is concerned about the death and destruction sown in the name of "freedom and democracy. " Unthinkable work of a Nobel.
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Adolfo Perez Esquivel Nobel Peace Prize 1980.

From Nobel to Nobel.
Open letter to Barack Obama
President of the United States.

Dear Barack:

When addressing this letter I do fraternal and simultaneously to express concern and indignation to see how the death and destruction sown in several countries, in the name of "freedom and democracy", two words and empty of content prostitutes, ends justifying the murder and is celebrated as if it were a sporting event. Indignation at the attitude of sections of the population of the U.S., European heads of state and other countries that came to support the murder of Ben Laden, ordered by your government and complacency on behalf of an alleged justice. Not seek to stop him and try him for crimes allegedly committed, resulting in greater doubt, the objective was to kill him. The dead do not talk and fear of the executed who could say things are not convenient for the U.S. was the murder and ensure that "dead dog rabies is over, regardless of who do nothing but increase it.

When I was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, of which we are entrusted, I sent a letter saying: "Barack was very surprised that I have given you the Nobel Peace Prize, but now that I should have put at the service of peace between peoples, have all the opportunity to do so, to end the war and begin to reverse the grave situation in your country and the world.

But you have increased the hatred and betrayed the principles adopted in the campaign to your people, like ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and close the prisons at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib in Iraq, none of it managed to do, by the Instead, decide to start another war against Libya, supported by NATO and the shameful United Nations resolution to support it, when the highest body, dwarfed and without thought of their own, has lost its way and is subjected to the whims and interests of the powers dominant. The basic foundation of the UN is the defense and promotion of peace and dignity among the people. Its preamble says "We the peoples of the world ..." currently not that high body.

I remember a mystic and teacher who has greatly influenced my life, the Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton says "The greatest need of our time is to clear the huge mass of mental and emotional garbage that clogs our minds and makes all political and social life in a mass disease. Without that housekeeping can not begin to see. If not we can not think "-

Barack were very young during the Vietnam War, may not remember the struggle of American people oppose the war. The dead, wounded and maimed in Vietnam to this day suffer the consequences. Thomas Merton said, compared with a postmark that had just arrived "The U.S. Army, key to peace "," The U.S. army, the key to peace. " No army is key to peace. No nation has the key to anything but war. The power has nothing to do with peace. When more men increased military power, more peace and violate
destroy it "

I have shared and accompanied the Vietnam War veterans, including Brian Wilson and his companions who were victims of that war and all wars.
Life has this not, in the unexpected and surprising fragrance and beauty that God gave to mankind and we must protect for future generations to leave a more just and fraternal, restore balance to Mother Earth. If we fail to act to change the current state of suicidal arrogance that is pulling people to deep recesses where hope dies, it will be difficult to get out and see the light of humanity deserves a better fate.
You know that hope is like the lotus that grows in the mud and blossoms in all their glory show their beauty.
Leopoldo Marechal, the great Argentine writer said that "the labyrinth comes from above."

And I think Barack after wrong road to follow your path, you are in a maze can not find the exit and bury yourself deeper and deeper into violence, uncertainty, devoured by the power rule, driven by large corporations, the complex military industrial think you have the power that can do everything and that the world is at the feet of the U.S. because it imposes the force of arms and invade countries with impunity. It is a painful reality, but there is also resistance from people who not give up against the powerful.

Are so long the atrocities committed by your country in the world that would subject for long, is a challenge for historians who must research and know the behaviors, political, greatness and pettiness that has led the U.S. to the monoculture of the minds you can not see other realities.

Ben Laden, alleged author's ideological attack on the twin towers, identify it as Satan incarnate who terrorized the world and the propaganda of your government marked him as the "axis of evil", and that helps them to declare war desired the military industrial complex needs to place their products of death. Researchers know that the tragic September 11, indicate that the attack has a lot of "coup" as the plane into the Pentagon and former emptying the offices of the towers attack that gave rise to wage war against Iraq and Afghanistan and now against Libya, saying the lies and the arrogance of power that they do this to save the people in the name of "defending freedom and democracy, and cynicism to say that the death of women and children are" damage side. " That I lived in Iraq, in Baghdad bombing on the city and the pediatric hospital and refuge for children who were victims of such "collateral damage."

The word void of values ​​and content, where the murder, call it death and finally the U.S. has "dead" to Bin Laden. Do not try to justify it under any circumstances, I am against all terrorism, both of these armed groups, including the state terrorism that your country holds in various parts of the world by supporting dictators, imposing military bases and armed intervention, exercising violence to stay by terror in the axis of world power. Is there only one "axis of evil"?. What do you call?

Will be for this reason that the U.S. people live in such fear of reprisals from those who call the "axis of evil"? The simplistic and hypocritical to justify the unjustifiable.

La Paz, is a dynamic of life in relationships between people and peoples, is a challenge to the conscience of mankind, his way is tedious, everyday and hope, where people who build their lives and their own history. Peace is not cheap, it is built and that is what you are missing boy, courage to take the historical responsibility to your people and humanity.

You can not live in the labyrinth of fear and domination of those who govern the United States, ignoring international treaties, pacts and protocols, governments that have signed but not ratified anything and do not meet any of the agreements, but they speak in the name of freedom and law.

How can you talk of peace if you do not want to meet anything but the interests of your country?
How can you talk of freedom when you are in prison innocent prisoners in Guantanamo, the U.S. prisons in Iraq, like Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan?
How can you talk of human rights and dignity of people when the violas permanently and block those who do not share your ideology and must bear your abuse?
How can you send military forces to Haiti after the devastating earthquake and no humanitarian aid to the suffering people?
How can you talk about freedom when they massacred the people of the Middle East and propagate wars and torture, endless conflict that is bleeding the Palestinians and Israelis?

Barack looks up in your maze, you'll find the star to guide you, but you know you can never reach it, as well as Eduardo Galeano said.

It seeks to be consistent between what you say and do, is the only way not to lose direction. It is a challenge of life.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a tool to serve people and not for personal vanity.

I wish you strength and hope and hope to have the courage to correct the path and find the wisdom of Peace.

A day like today, 34 years ago came back to life, I had a flight of death during Argentina's military dictatorship backed by the U.S., thank God I survived and I had to leave the maze of despair over the stars to find the way to say with the prophet, "the darkest hour is when he begins the dawn"

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1980 Peace Nobel
Buenos Aires, May 5, 2011