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Topic: ART, my god what next!!Starving dog UPDATE> (Read 1138 times)
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Here is the latest letter from Jaime Sancho in response to the Gallery Codice's Director:
(Translation is a little off through Babelfish but it is very strong in denouncing the cruel act)
ANSWER TO GALERÍA CÓDICE
Juanita BermúdezDirectorManagua, Nicaragua
The international community, and in name of this one more than 30139 people, asks for the exclusion of Mr. Guillermo Vargas "Habacuc" of the Central American Biennial Honduras 2008 by the following reason: I mistreat produced when persecuting, capturing and to tie a famélico street dog, done that you confirm.The rest of the world we did not finish including/understanding like can allow that an artist can recreate his work with the suffering of an animal and that the assistants can celebrate a celebration with a famélico dog like bottom drop curtain.The rest of the world we cannot include/understand as a jury can award the work of Vargas on the basis of the work criterion "of great quality and excellent coherence between idea and execution", according to detailed.In name of the art not all bond. To try to make think that vetoing us to Mr. Guillermo Vargas to want to moor in its gallery a persecuted and famélico dog had been censorship is an error. What it had been is to have common sense, something that evidently they needed. Why not the thought to remain with the animal to adopt it, took care of and it fed from the first moment? It is easy to say now, if certain or no, that the dog, tired and hungry famélico "surprisingly" escaped ahead the noses of a watchman.If the Gallery Codex guards by the quality of the exposed works and allows the exhibition of a mistreated alive being, del already makes al rest clear world as it is the quality of the works exposed in its gallery.Being conceited of which it does not exert censorship, as long as "does not attempt against the elementary principles of the ethics and much less than they imply the life of a living being, is human or animal" and to allow that the denounced facts, causes that the rest of the world we wonder ourselves that you by ethics understand when happen been having has moored itself persecuted, captured, humiliated and tortured a dog, psicológiamente, with implication of being able to be killed, if she is not that she really lost it as said own Vargas. It is his word against the one of this other person who affirms the opposite: Of the Blog de Rodrigo Peñalba http://www.marcaacme.com/...habacuc "According to what I knew, the dog died on the following day by lack of food."Vargas said: "Nobody made the decision to feed the dog that it was" exposing ", collaborating of that way to its death. These affirmations contradict to Juanita Bermúdez (director of the Gallery Codex) when it affirms that the dog "escaped". If Mr. Vargas lies or she does, who stops the case is the same.Another version that denies the explanation of the director: "The dog died after a day in the exhibition, according to confirmed the Nation Marta Leonor González, publisher of the cultural supplement of the Press in Nicaragua." http://www.nacion.com/...aldea1263590And another one: Liliam Schnog, president of the Humanitarian Association for the Protection Animal, said that she does not understand how an animal was let to die of hunger if on a floor there was a phrase done with food.The international community is worried because in century XXI still there are people like the Vargas who mistreat animals, galleries like hers that exposes them and sworn that awards them.It was ensured widely that all the international community is sorry that Natividad Canda was devoured by the Rottweiler, but to try to compare the human mind with the one of the dogs says very little in its favor. It is more, gives to understand us that what Vargas did and what you allowed was by revenge, an adjustment of accounts, which makes worse more, if it fits, the things.Like author of the request online so that the Guillernmo the Vargas "Habacuc" is excluded to participate in the Central American Biennial Honduras 2008 I inform to him into which I will follow ahead and present/display at its moment to the organizers of same the companies who have taken shelter, on the basis of considering simultaneously that Vargas is a maltratador of the sort animal, which I make my request to all the galleries public of the world so that also they veto it.
Kindly,
Jaime Sancho
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas A. Edison
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham
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He is your friend,your partner, your defender,Your Dog! You are his life,his love,his leader! He will be yours,faithful and true to the last beat of his heart! You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion!
SAVING ONE DOG MAY NOT CHANGE THE WORLD BUT IT SURE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THAT ONE DOG!
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Angel44
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Aah post code - thanks K9. I have added my signature to the petition. Still can't believe that somebody would be so evil 
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tracy2306
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Am absolutely heartbroken! Have signed the petition!
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treesie
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ive signed too im with you all the way here poor little dog what a way to be treated B*****d they deserve to be shot
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Email recieved from PETA, http://www.peta.org/
Thank you. Please know that we’re looking into this currently.
Best,
Christina. PETA
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He is your friend,your partner, your defender,Your Dog! You are his life,his love,his leader! He will be yours,faithful and true to the last beat of his heart! You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion!
SAVING ONE DOG MAY NOT CHANGE THE WORLD BUT IT SURE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THAT ONE DOG!
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delsa
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i hope it was ok to do so but i cross posted the intial part to some pet forums i use and from the response i have got it is the same as here they have signed and are disguisted with it
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The Honourable Minister of Art and Culture
Mrs. Maria Elena Carballo
mcarballo@mcj.go.cr
gretana@mcj.go.cr>
Dear Minister:
It has come to my attention that Mrs. Claudia Rocio (WSPA) has made a statement to the effect that the office in Costa Rica "made direct contact with the Minister of Art and culture" and that the Minister said "…Mr. Vargas' presentation at the Biennale will be different to the one shown in Nicaragua, which means that this time no animal will be used, and for this reason the Ministry will not prohibit his participation".
In this connection, I wish to state the following:
It is out of the question that Mr. Vargas would devote himself to pursuing ANOTHER sick and starving dog through the streets of Honduras, to capture it and show it as a piece of art in the Central American Biennale in the coming month of November. No thinking person could conceive of this, and I am sure that you have not even contemplated the possibility of it happening again.
For you not to prohibit the participation of this person in the Central American Biennale based on something that he WILL NOT do, as opposed to something that HE DID, is in my opinion an absurdity. It also seems illogical that the president of Costa Rica, Dr. Oscar Arias, on 5th March last was the millionth person to sign the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare, and yet you allow someone who openly ill-treats animals to represent your country. If you are not willing to stop him participating, perhaps it is Dr. Oscar Arias himself who should take the responsibility of doing it, bearing in mind the commitment he made when he affixed his signature.
ONE MILLION THIRTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND ELEVEN (1,013,611) people are calling for this petition to be acted upon, and the rationale is very simple: Given that Mr. Vargas is not going to be sanctioned for the ill-treatment which he inflicted on a living being in the Códice Gallery in Managua last August, neither should he be honoured by being chosen to represent his country in the 2008 Central American Biennale.
How many more people will have to sign before you pay attention to the voices of outrage coming to you from all parts of the globe?
Yours sincerely,
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Jaime Sancho
www.ea6gk.org
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One of my collaborators has sent me this letter from Claudia Rocío Medina, Manager of the WSPA office. It is addressed to Pilar.
"Pilar
Good Day:
Following up on the matter of Guillermo Vargas exhibiting in Honduras, I wish to let you know that our Costa Rica Office made direct contact with the Minister of Art and Culture, who confirmed that Mr. Vargas will be participating in the Biennale, and exhibiting something different to what he presented in Nicaragua, which means that he will not be using an animal this time, and therefore the Ministry will not prohibit his participation.
Yours truly,
CLAUDIA ROCIO MEDINA.
Biol, Esp. MSc*
Office Manager
WSPA
World Society for the Protection of Animals"
I call on Mrs. Rocío, if the text is not correct, to deny it.
The email is loaded. Without going thoroughly into it, and given that 400,000 new signatures have been affixed to the petition by people who may not know the whole story, I would just recall the following:
1 - On 16th October I read in the "La Nación" Costa Rican newspaper that an artist had put a sick and starving dog to die of hunger, tied to the walls of the Códice Gallery in Managua (Nicaragua). The dog was displayed as part of his "art", in direct contravention of international animal rights contained in the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF ANIMAL RIGHTS. If this had occurred in another part of the world Mr. Vargas would now be in prison, but in Costa Rica he was rewarded.
2 - In September 2007 in the Biennale of Costa Rican Art (Bienarte) the judges, consisting of Ana Sokoloff (Colombia), Oliver Debroise (México) and Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers (Ecuador), chose Vargas as one of the six artists to represent his country in the Central American Biennale Honduras 2008. This in spite of the fact that Mr. Vargas, one month previously, had ill-treated a living being in order to present his "work of art".
3 - The case of the cat-eater: WSPA and ANPA both brought matters to court. The events happened in July of 2007. WSPA made a report to the Public Prosecutor in Cañas, Guanacaste, and on 27th July ANPA made a formal complaint to the Court of Infringements in Cañas, Guanacaste against Douglas Barahona, who had been introduced to the public in the "Extra" newspaper as the 'cat-eater',
4 - Dr. Oscar Arias, VIP animal activist. On 5th March last, WSPA reserved for Dr. Oscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez, President of Costa Rica, the opportunity to be the millionth signatory to the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare, an international agreement which for the first time would unite the various governments in the recognition of the fact that animals are important, but dealing only with the necessities of animals from a scientific point of view without recognizing any of their legal rights, such as the right to life.
5 - Without being a formal organization, by simply exposing the facts of the case, stimulating people's consciences, demanding justice for a creature who has been ill-treated, and the assurance that it will not occur again, at this time more than 957,549 people are calling for Guillermo Vargas to be excluded from the Central American Biennale Honduras 2008, as the minimum acceptable penance for the acts he committed against a living being.
And in spite of these nearly ONE MILLION signatures, WSPA "surprises" us with Mrs. Rocío's email. That the world association for the protection of animals should accept the abuser Vargas' participation in the Biennale, with a work of art different to that presented in Nicaragua, which means that this time he will not use an animal, is "surprising".
It is surprising because this association is supposed to protect, defend and promote animal welfare. The logical reaction of WSPA would have been to immediately press charges, following the abuse perpetrated by a Costa Rican citizen on a sick and starving dog. Not only have they not done that, but they are in agreement that as long as he does not use another animal in another work of art, he should go unpunished.
The haughty Mr. Vargas has not begged for forgiveness, nor has he tried to excuse himself in any way, but in spite of this, in the email received, the Minister of Art and Culture of Costa Rica and Mrs. Rocío as the WSPA representative, forgive him. If WSPA had brought charges, would she still have pardoned him?
It must be surprising that it did not occur to the Minister of Art and Culture of Costa Rica, and to Mrs. Rocío, that Vargas dedicated himself, a few days before the opening of the Central American Biennale, to pursuing a sick and starving dog through the streets of Honduras, catching him and tying him to the walls of the gallery to wait for him to die of hunger – or to escape right in front of the nose of the guard on duty. Does the Minister really think this is feasible, or is it an attempt to find a way out of a situation they don't know how to resolve, a situation so unprecedented and significant, that it would put the authorities of Costa Rica, Honduras and all the patrons in a very uncomfortable situation, depending on what decision is reached.
Besides, WSPA uses different yardsticks for different cases, as for example: Mr. Douglas Barahona, also a Costa Rican citizen, the "cat-eater" – he is a poor man, possibly ill, possibly a drug addict, who possibly gave the interview to get some money. Make no mistake, I am not defending his actions. But WSPA brought a court action against him in Cañas, Guanacaste. To date, there is no information available as to whether justice has been served - more than likely not.
Mr. Guillermo Vargas, on the other hand, is an "artist" who enjoys the support of the well-known architect Ronald Zürcher, President of the Association of Art Impresarios, of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, and now we know that he is also backed by the Minister of Art and Culture of Costa Rica. With all that going for him, it must be uncomfortable for WSPA to present any kind of report about Vargas or to participate in the campaign to exclude him from the Biennale. And it shouldn't surprise us that neither will they encourage the recently-honoured MILLIONTH animal activist to refuse to allow the abuser Vargas to represent Costa Rica this coming November.
In the only press release so far from WSPA, they say "At the same time, we believe that this should be an opportunity to encourage all those who have reacted to this act with indignation, to take steps to support the welfare and protection of animals, not only by reporting cruelty cases, but by endorsing the work of the many national and international organizations which labour on a daily basis to improve living conditions for the animals in our country and in the whole world".
I say to you, WSPA officials, that ONE MILLION people are now taking action for the welfare and protection of animals, demanding that those who violate the rights of animals should be called to account. You yourselves have said, in reference to Vargas ". . . that cruelty to animals, in whatever form and for whatever purpose, is in itself a repugnant act, punishable by the Criminal Code of Costa Rica, as well as by the laws of many other countries". Why, then, do you not press charges against Vargas? Because of his connections?
No matter how many times it is repeated, there will still be people like the Minister of Art and Culture, and Mrs. Rocío, who don't understand this: we who care about animals do not accept ill-treatment inflicted on living beings, in any form, or in any name. Those who do not meet these standards should be charged, to the full extent of the relevant laws of each country, and if there are no such laws, those established by the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights. Mr. Guillermo Vargas cannot and should not go unpunished – otherwise the door will be flung wide open for any other atrocity to be committed in the name of art.
I suppose that for those who at some point have questioned the veracity of the acts, or who have wondered whether it is just an urban legend, or even that the photos of the dog were a clever photographic montage, the words of the Minister of Art and Culture of Costa Rica, and always according to Mrs. Rocío, member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), that "he will be participating in the Biennale, and exhibiting something different to what he presented in Nicaragua, which means that he will not be using an animal this time, and therefore the Ministry will not prohibit his participation" will not leave them in any doubt whatsoever that Guillermo Vargas DID ABUSE a dog in Nicaragua, and far from being punished for it, he is being rewarded.
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Jaime Sancho
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He is your friend,your partner, your defender,Your Dog! You are his life,his love,his leader! He will be yours,faithful and true to the last beat of his heart! You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion!
SAVING ONE DOG MAY NOT CHANGE THE WORLD BUT IT SURE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THAT ONE DOG!
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can not believe this, can not find the words, just so wrong.  Poor poor dog.
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