Statement on the blockade against Cuba

The CLACSO Venezuela Network of Centers expresses its growing concern and rejection of the grave situation and the suffering deliberately inflicted upon the sister people of Cuba by the policy of aggression and economic strangulation of the United States government. This reality is a product of the intensification of imperialist aggression, materialized in the recent executive order that, in an act of colonial domination and purported hegemony, declares the sovereign island an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to its national security. This criminal blockade, of an economic, financial, and commercial nature, affects the entire population of the island, especially access to the resources necessary to ensure the proper and autonomous functioning of Cuba's academic and scientific institutions, directly undermining the right to development and self-determination of peoples.

With these new political measures and in its persistent interventionist zeal, the United States government intends to continue unjustly and collectively suffocating the Cuban people, preventing access to essential goods and services, in a clear continuation of extractive and subjugating practices that seek to undermine their sovereignty. This policy constitutes not only a crime against humanity, but also a flagrant act of epistemic and colonial violence, designed to strangle the capabilities of a people who have chosen their own path. The strength, dignity, and anticolonial struggle of the Cuban people have allowed them to confront and overcome more than six decades of a relentless and genocidal siege, earning them recognition and militant solidarity in multilateral forums and spaces for dialogue among peoples and governments that defend a multipolar and decolonized world order. Cuba's academic and scientific prestige, forged in resistance and as a pillar of its emancipatory project, is undeniable.

From the CLACSO Venezuela Network of Centers, in accordance with our anti-imperialist stance and commitment to the decolonization of knowledge, we express our unwavering solidarity with the heroic people of Cuba and with the Cuban academic and scientific community. We strongly support all the measures being implemented to counter this new aggression, prioritizing access to a liberating university education, the completion of studies, the adoption of blended learning models, and the development of strategic projects that strengthen technological sovereignty and the independence of knowledge.

To the people and the revolutionary government of Cuba we express our certainty and conviction that, with the strength of the unity of Our America and the struggle against imperialism, we will soon meet at the International Congress "University 2026", a space that will once again stand as a bastion of critical thought and a beacon of public, popular education committed to decolonial social transformation.

CLACSO Venezuela Network of Centers
February 10th 2026