Personalities from different sectors and countries made up on Sunday the list of signatories of a French petition in solidarity with Cuban poet Nancy Morejón, who was stripped of her honorary presidency of the Paris Poetry Market.

Launched a few days ago after the decision of the event, which yielded to anti-Cuban pressures, to withdraw that symbolic status to the renowned intellectual of the island, the list of personalities and exponents of culture, arts, and politics that accompany the initiative, also open to other citizens willing to support it, increases daily.

The text was first presented last week by the coordinator for France and Europe of the World Poetry Movement, Francis Combes, and was echoed in the last hours in an article by Colombian writer and filmmaker Hernando Calvo Ospina in the debate site Le Club Mediapart.

"The decision to withdraw Morejon's honorary presidency of the 40th edition of the Poetry Market (meeting scheduled for June 7 to 11) saddens and shocks us", reflects the document, initially signed by poets, writers, men, and women of letters living in France.

Combes, Calvo Ospina, Serge Pey, Jean Portante, Jose Muchnik, Victor Rodriguez, Ignacio Ramonet, Yves Vargas, Philippe Tancelin, Jean Ristat, Franck Delorieux, Gérard Mordillat, Michel Ménaché, Fabienne Beaudeau, Delia Blanco, Fabien Marius, Olivier Rubens, Jean-Louis Cloët, Barbara Flamand and Charles Ducal are among the signatories.

Poets, writers, editors, philosophers, and historians have been joined by figures from politics, academia, and associative and solidarity work in Europe, in a long list that includes among others the academic Paul Estrade, the communist leader Massimiliano Ay, the leader of the World Federation of Trade Unions Quim Boix, the militant Léon Landini and former deputy François-Michel