In solidarity with the Cuban people in the face of the aggressive escalation by the United States
Statement from the CLACSO Working Group on Studies of the United States
Last January, the US administration issued an executive order classifying Cuba as an unusual and extraordinary threat to its national security. This classification lacks factual basis, contravenes principles of international law, and is ethically reprehensible due to its foreseeable humanitarian consequences. It is a measure whose justification has not been adequately explained and which lacks legitimacy.
By imposing secondary sanctions, illegal under international law, as has been repeatedly declared by the UN General Assembly and by the vast majority of member states, the United States intends to reinforce at an unprecedented level a system of unilateral coercive measures with extraterritorial reach that already constituted an act of economic warfare against a sovereign nation in our region.
El CLACSO Working Group on Studies of the United StatesAs academics committed to Latin American critical thought within the social sciences, we believe that this renewed imperial aggression responds to the interests of elites who profit from the suffering of the people and block the possibilities of respectful and equitable relations. We call the attention of the academic community in our region not only to the objectionable, illegal, and criminal nature of this latest action in the specific case of Cuba, but also to the precedent it sets for Latin America and the Caribbean. This is a region that, despite having been the target of multiple interventions over more than two centuries, now faces a renewed aggression that It warrants critical analysis and collective reflection from the perspective of political commitment, international law, and the sovereignty of the peoples of our America and the world..
For all the above reasons, the CLACSO Working Group on Studies of the United States:
- It categorically rejects the new escalation of aggression by the United States government against Cuba, including the aforementioned executive order, which deepens the economic and energy siege.
- It demands the exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of state sponsors of terrorism.
- It calls upon the international academic community, social movements and progressive forces of Our America and the world to redouble their efforts to denounce and mobilize in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, its sovereignty and self-determination.
CLACSO Working Group Studies on the United States
This text expresses the position of the aforementioned Working Groups and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
