Marxist intellectuals released a letter supporting both the arrested FARC leader Ricardo Gonzalez (also known as Rodrigo Granda) and the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Granda is the alleged adviser of the FARC.
Colombian authorities arrested Granda on Dec. 13, 2004. The FARC is accused of terrorism by the governments of the USA and Colombia. Their members are regularly searched by Colombian authorities. Worldwide, police agencies have an interest in FARC members because of their involvement in international drug trafficking.
The arrest of Granda has caused disagreement. The FARC accuses Colombian authorities of capturing Granda inside Venezuelan territory. Venezuelan President Chavez claims Colombia invaded Venezuelan territory and possibly bribed Venezuelan officers. Colombia says the arrest occurred inside Colombian territory and that Granda was moved to Colombia by Venezuelans. Colombia admitted the payment of a reward for Granda, but rebutted accusations of bribery.
Recently, the Colombian government released an official notice accusing Venezuela of accepting representatives of terrorist organizations in political events sponsored by official Venezuelan institutions.
Open letter from international intellectuals, to the international public opinion
The kidnapping of Rodrigo Granda, carried out in Venezuelan territory presumably by agents of the Colombian police, is an attempt to create difficulties between both countries in order to debilitate the Bolivarian movement. An additional effect is to reduce the international prestige of the conduct of President Hugo Chávez creating doubts about a possible Venezuelan implication in said kidnapping. All intended to cause a possible armed intervention of the United States as a result of the conflict.
In view of this stratagem, the undersigned, artists, writers, intellectuals of Our America and the world declare our unrestricted support to the process of social change initiated in Venezuela and declare our adhesion and solidarity to the Bolivarian movement and the diaphanous conduct of its leader President Hugo Chávez Frías.

Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua)
Alfonso Sastre   (Spain)
Atilio Borón (Argentina)
Emir Sader  (Brazil,professor)
Lisandro Otero  (Cuba)
Theotonio Dos Santos  (Brazil)
Fernando Morais  (Brazil, writer, journalist)
Georges Labica (France)
Saul Landau  (USA)
Hernando Calvo Ospina (Colombia, writer, journalist)
Pascual Serrano (Spain)
Domenico Losurdo (Italy)
Gilberto Lopez y Rivas
Ramon Chao (Spain, musician, writer, journalist)
James D. Cockcroft
Santiago Alba Rico
Alex Cox
Stella Calloni  (Argentina,  writer, journalist)
Carlo Frabetti (Italy, journalist, writer)
Carlos Fazio (Mexico, journalist, writer)
Miguel D'Escoto  (Nicaragua, priest)
Miguel Urbano (Portugal, journalist)
Juan Brom 
Luis Hernández Navarro (Mexico, journalist)
Andrés Sorel (Spanish, writer)
John Gerassi (USA, Professor)
Marcos Roitman Rosenmann (Spain, Professor)
David L. Raby
Manuel Cabieses (Chile, journalist)
Eva Forest
Rev. Raúl Suárez(Cuba)
Francisco Jarauta
Eva Sastre Forest
General Vasco Gonçalves
Héctor Díaz-Polanco
Manuel Talens (Spanish, writer)
Alejandro Moreano (Equador, journalist)
Pablo Armando Fernández (Cuba,writer)
Keith Ellis 
Dick Emanuelsson (Colombia, journalist)
Carlos Fernández Liria (Venezuela, writer)
Horacio A. López 
Angeles Maestro
Víctor Ríos
Danielle Bleitrach
Alcira Argumedo
Quintin Cabrera
Mark Rosenzweig
Arturo Corchera
Cuauhtémoc Amezcua Dromundo
Tubal Páez
Irene Amador
Roger Grevoul
Julie Ruben
Anamaría Díaz
Carlos Alberto de Almeida
Alberto Lecchi
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
François Duteil
Humberto Tumini
Carlos Tena
Elizabeth Martinez
Juan Carlos Monedero
Solange R. Echeverria
Vicente Romano
Jane de la Selva
César Fernández
Norma Núñez Montoto
Marcela Cornejo Z.
Laurindo Leal Filho
Nayar López Castellanos
Julio C. Gambina
Octavio Mercado González
Olivia Vidal López
Miguel Ángel Buenrostro
Juan Carlos Volnovich
Berta Joubert-Ceci
Jorge Ceballos
Isaac Rudnik
Hildebrando Pèrez Grande
Manuel Ortega Hegg
Hélio Doyle
Dr. Rubén Cantú Chapa
Corina Mestre
Manuel Sa Marques
Oscar-René Vargas
Henri Alleg
Roberto Mastroianni
Daniel Chavarría
Elías Letelier-Ruz
Pedro Pablo Rodríguez
Beatriz Rajland
Victor Casaus
Luciana Castellina
Jorge Raúl Rodríguez
Adalberto Santana
Rolando Rodríguez
Lourdes González
Rita Terranova
Alicia Castellanos
Rolando González Patricio
Paulina Fernandez
Vicente Feliú
Rafael Cuevas Molina
Carlos A. Lozano Guillén
Raúl Villegas Dávalos
Sergio Guerra
Enrique Ubieta
Fernando López  D´Alejandro
Ana Daglio
Oscar González
Jorge Timossi
Carlos Oliva
Ana María Vera Smith
Salvador López Arnal
José Dos Santos
Humberto Arenal
Iris Galindo
Jaime Mühlrad Zimmermann
Pedro de la Hoz
Maritza Capote
Enrique Cirules
Carlos Alzugaray Treto
Toty Flores, Argentina.
Daniel Rodríguez
Alberto Faya
Marilyn Bobes
Miguel Alvarez
Carlos Roberto
Alberto Luis Tabares
Daniel De Santis Mesa
Manuel Henríquez Lagarde
María Toledano
Manuel Fernández-Cuesta
Rafael Hernández
Manuel López Oliva
Santiago Pujol
Aurelio Alonso Tejada
Alberto Guerra Naranjo
Felix Contreras
Magaly Sánchez Ochoa
Marina Norma Rodriguez Lopez
Lino Arturo Neira Betancourt
José Luis Fariñas
Juana García Abás
Virtudes Feliú
Gioia Minuti
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