In the last few years, United States of America are trying to make their
past behaviour and responsibility about cruel dictatorships of South
America a bit clearer, particularly for Chile’s and Argentina’s ones.
During these military regimes thousands of people were raped, tortured and
killed and in many cases their bodies are still undiscovered: we are
talking about "desaparecidos", who are alive in our minds thanks to
history and to all men and women who are fighting in search of truth and
in preserving memory of this atrocious past. Evidence of liabilities had
in the ’70s and ’80s of last century by Central Intelligence Agency and by
some influent members of U.S. Government is nowadays sure, as shown by
Archive documents declassified in recent months. Main characters of this
connivance with military regimes are suspected to be President Nixon and
his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the latter in open search of
revenge against President Allende of Chile; Kissinger’s idea was that
Allende and his Government (in office after democratic elections) must be
overthrown by any means or crimes to permit the power to be taken by his
friend General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte! Kissinger had also a great role
supporting dictatorship in Argentina where ruled Jorge Videla, another of
his confidence men. Notwithstanding these bloody pacts with South American
regimes, in 1973 Henry Kissinger became Nobel Laureate for Peace,
alongside with Viet Nam’s Le Duc Tho, having negotiated a cease fire
agreement in that country. But warfare in Viet Nam continued at least for
a couple of years, ending only with the falling of Saigon. For this reason
Le Duc Tho did not accept his part of Nobel Prize. Now that United States’
position, particularly Kissinger’s preminent role, in South American
dictatorships is in full light, a relevant question arises about the ethic
and moral value of his Nobel Prize and we cannot ignore it. It is worth
associate his name with the ones of people who really fought for Peace and
Justice, such as Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel?? We think
that he can’t be no more a Nobel Laureate for Peace because of his part in
crimes committed in Chile, Argentina and not only, and that the 1973 Prize
must be revoked as Justice wants and as a repair, very small indeed, for
the sufferings of thousands victims. This is what we firmly ask to you!