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It is clear that it is about the intervention ofthe international organizations and underthe United Nations Chart and through theinternational legal instruments. The realdamage, says the Pope, is the indifferenceand the lack of international interventionwhen the principle of protecting the citizenswithout distinction is violated. A governmentthat respects the sacred duty of taking careof the human life of all has nothing to fear.The life of honest citizens and the life ofcriminals, of political and ordinary prisoners;life from its conception to its natural end,the life of one only person and the life ofmillions of persons, the life of the peoples ofthe North or the South, the life in Abu Graibor in Guantánamo and the life in the Cubanprisons or hospitals. Nothing justifies thatone only life may be lost. It is regrettablethat there may be a neglecting of theseriousness of life loss by considering thenumber of persons that lost their lives or byconsidering the immense number of personsthat are taken care of inside the country orabroad while they exercise solidarity. Onlyone Haitian has the same value compared tothe ones who died squashed by the collapse.Our humanism would reject the fact of notpaying attention to one person becausemillions died. Why does this principle workthere and we neglect it here?The life of a psychological sane person hasthe same value than the life of one patient ina psychiatric hospital. Why do they create acommission to investigate the death in oneof our hospitals and they do not createanother commission to investigate who letdie only one person in another hospital? It isa duty of the rulers and a right of the onesunder a government. And this is not aninvention by present media campaigns or bya right-wing ideological trend. It is apatrimony of our legal and ethical culturethroughout centuries, codified in the wellknown People Right which was founded andelaborated in the Salamanca University in the16 th century with the contribution of theDominican Fathers, especially with our closeFather Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. Sostates the Pope in his well known speech inthe United Nations:gentium as the foundations of all the acts bythe rulers towards the persons under theirgovernment: in times when the concept ofnational sovereign States was being developed,the Dominican friar Francisco de Victoria, whowas rightly considered to be the precursor ofthe idea of founding the United Nations,described such responsibility as an aspect ofthe natural reason shared by all Nations and asthe result of one international order whose taskwas to regulate the relations among peoples.Today, like then, this principle has to makereference to the idea of the person as image ofthe Creator, to the desire of an absolute andessential freedom” ( Benedict XVI in the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations, New York,Friday 18 th April 2008).The essence is the freedom of each humanperson which is not granted by any State or byany law but by his Creator. It is freedom whichmakes us free, as Jesus said. The freedomabout the women and men, the truth about themission of the State; the truth about the humanrights and duties; the truth about the sacredand inviolable condition of every human lifeand every dimension and stage of life.“The only way to be free”, as Martí said, is thecultivation of the truth culture about the humandignity. Martí’s postulate, which is fortunatelyin force in the present Constitution of Cuba,summarizes our political culture, ourhumanism: it ratifies the value of life and thehuman rights; invites us to put this ethicalcriterion as the supreme law of our Republicand even more: it urges us to turn the absoluterespect of the human life into a cult that we allcan offer at the altar of the Fatherland.“I wish the first law of our Republic be the cultof Cubans to the full dignity of men”.Pinar del Río, April 10 th 2010.“The principle of the “responsibility toprotect” was considered by the ancient iusEdiciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201262