1 - Expresses its solidarity with the Spanish activist in the movements for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples, member of OSPAAAL (Solidarity Organization with the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America), a Spanish Non-Governmental Organization whose social goal is the search for peace, solidarity and a negotiated solution to conflicts, based on the principles of humanitarian international law.
2- Denounces the criminal wave of repression of Alvaro Uribe's regime, which in a violent campaign of intimidation and in clear violation of the most fundamental rights and freedoms of Colombian citizens targets all those that in Colombia do not collaborate with the policy of new escalation in the military conflict. This campaign has resulted in the imprisonment, persecution, criminal indictment and even death of those who worked towards the recent attempt of humanitarian exchange of prisoners between the FARC and the Colombian army—demonstrated once again with the recent murder of Guillermo Rivera, union leader and member of the political party Pólo Democrático Alternativo—and it seems now, with this unacceptable "witch hunt" episode in Spain, there is a desire to export the campaign to Europe.
3 - Alerts to the fact that with this political arrest there is a deliberate attempt to confuse contacts with the belligerent parties in the Colombian conflict aimed at its peaceful resolution with "collaboration with terrorist organizations".
4- Calls attention to the fact that the arrest of Remédios Garcia was conducted under so-called "anti-terrorist" legislation that in the name of supposed war on terrorism aims to restrict citizen's rights and criminalize peoples and organizations that are unwilling to surrender to the world order of imperialism.
5- Reaffirms its solidarity with the Colombian people and the forces in Colombia that persist in struggling against the fascist regime of Uribe —mere front of the Bush administration on the Latin American continent—for democracy, social justice and a peaceful and negotiated solution to the Colombian conflict and reaffirms its position that a first step towards peace is the beginning of negotiations among belligerent parties towards a humanitarian exchange of prisoners.
6 – Rejecting the policies of intimidation and persecution that with this act aim to install in Europe—with the complicity of some European governments—the same climate of political prosecution enforced in Colombia, PCP reiterates its solidarity with Remédios Garcia and all those that dedicate their lives and strengths in the struggle for peace, democracy and human rights, against imperialism, militarism and war.
