Faced with the dark tides of history, the World Poetic Movement (WPM) stands up. At its first congress, held in Medellín and Caracas in July 2023, it launched a resounding cry of alarm in the face of the rise of fascism and neo-colonial forces. The poets of the WPM did not hesitate to actively engage, giving their support to Niger and Palestine, both threatened with invasion and annihilation.
Today, even Netanyahu’s allies recognize the war crimes he has committed in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran. The recent act in Doha proves, if it were still necessary, the implacable purpose of Israel and its accomplices: to eliminate any dissident voice, any freedom activist.
As if this horror were not enough, the United States, under the false pretext of the fight against drug trafficking, threatens to invade Venezuela. Their objective is clear: to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, whose wrong is to openly denounce the danger of world fascism.
Today, it’s Maduro. Tomorrow, it will be any country, any citizen who refuses to comply with the neocolonial policy of the imperialist bloc.
We, the poets of the WPM, cannot afford to remain silent in the face of this new aggression against a sovereign country. Our silence would be a betrayal of the free world, an abandonment of the hope that our fight embodies. Our greatest contribution to humanity does not lie in a Nobel Prize in literature, but in our ability to be the crow of the rooster that denounces the presence of the eagle around the chicken coop.
Saley Boubé (NIGER)
