LETTER OPEN TO MR. MARIUS VIZER, PRESIDENT OF THE IJF

UNIÓN PANAMERICANA DE JUDO		UNIÃO PANAMERICANA DE JUDÔ
PANAMERICAN JUDO UNION		UNION PANAMERICAINE DE JUDO

LETTER OPEN TO MR. MARIUS VIZER, PRESIDENT OF THE FIJ

No.200809

February 20, 2008.

Santo Domingo.

República Dominicana.

Mr.:

Marius Vizer

President

International Judo Federation

Budapest, Hungría.

Distinguished Mr. Vizer:

In name of the Panamerican Judo Union, we expressed our indignation by the course of the events that you are generating in the scope of the Panamerican Judo Union.

Several countries have denounced that in your name, the gentlemen Paulo Wanderley T. and Ignacio Aloise, Presidents of the National Federations of Brazil and Uruguay are causing a “meeting” in Rio de Janeiro, on the upcoming days of February 28^th and 29^th 2008, with the purpose and objective that is to turn the same one an illegal “Assembly of the UPJ”, with the consequent destitution of all the democratically elected members and in functions of this continental organization.

We remind you that the democracy in America is the greater treasure of the town and many dictators lost the life due to not to valuing it, to respect it and to understand it.

In the sport of Judo, the Panamerican Judo Union democratically has fortified its bases, coexisting daily with opposite opinions to the direction, which have their space in each one of the Ordinary Congresses of our institution.

A “coup d’état”, would make much damage to the Judo of the World, the International Olympic Committee would be first in finding out and verifying that Judo has lost the ethics and the respect, as a result of it until the durability of our sport in the Olympic Program would be in doubt and the new stage under its direction would be marked by the authoritarianism and the destruction, situation that we deeply want to avoid and to take advantage of to add forces for the democratic development of our loved sport.

We requested that it avoid the objective of the mentioned meeting and reflects in those who before lack of legal instruments take refuges in moved away from their customs of the democratic life.

With respect, we inform it as a famous phrase of Simon Bolivar, our liberator.

“… America, Cradle of the freedom and tomb of tyrants…”

Sincerely