We demand total and unconditional respect for the right of the Cuban people to sovereignly decide their destiny without neo-imperialist interference.
The situation Cuba faces in January 2026 cannot be interpreted as a mere economic juncture or a bilateral diplomatic conflict. It is a prolonged, territorially devastating siege aimed at breaking the Cuban people through induced scarcity, energy shortages, and the inability to access basic food, medicine, and technology. The blockade imposed by the United States constitutes a form of unjust and cruel collective punishment that violates fundamental principles of human rights, the right to life, and international law, and deliberately places the Cuban civilian population on the island in conditions of avoidable suffering.
The recent intensification of threats and coercive measures, encouraged by the Trump administration, confirms the persistence of a neo-imperialist autocratic policy that tolerates no autonomous projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is not simply a matter of pressuring a government, but of sending a disciplinary and terrifying message to the entire region: anyone who deviates from Washington's orbit will be punished. Cuba has been paying this price for more than six decades for having chosen to forge its own path to sovereignty by challenging the systemic global patriarchal capitalist order.
Faced with this siege, the Cuban people's response expresses an ethical and political dimension that transcends the immediate situation. The youth mobilizations, the March of the Torches, and the constant appeal to historical memory are not empty ritual gestures or mere opportunistic actions. They embody a tradition of resistance rooted in the thought and practice of José Martí, for whom the homeland was not an abstract territory, but the concrete dignity of peoples in the face of domination in the name of all humanity. This legacy lives on in a generation that refuses to accept humiliation.
The Cuban Revolution, with all its internal tensions, contradictions, challenges, and obstacles, cannot be judged under the blackmail of hunger or military threats. Defending Cuba today does not mean denying its problems, even those acknowledged by its own population, but rather rejecting their use as a pretext to justify a policy of economic warfare, an open declaration of war.
As Fidel Castro reminded us on numerous occasions, sovereignty is not negotiable, especially when it is intended to be imposed through coercion and intimidation.
Solidarity with Cuba is, therefore, a political and moral responsibility for everyone. It demands denouncing the blockade, demanding its immediate lifting, rejecting the criminalization of international solidarity, and affirming the right of the Cuban people to decide their own destiny without external interference. Cuba does not constitute a threat to the United States of America, nor to any country in the world. The principles of its foreign policy are recognized by its widespread prestige in the international community, where its leadership has been based on anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, international solidarity, and respect for the self-determination of peoples.
In a world marked by new and hybrid forms of war, extermination, and atrocious domination, standing with Cuba is also defending the idea that peoples have the right to exist and re-exist with dignity, without being crushed by the imperial, neo-imperial, authoritarian, fascist-style arrogance with which they want to control not only Latin America and the Caribbean, but the world.
From the CLACSO Working Group on Bodies, Territories, Resistances (GT CUTER) we recognize in the struggle of the Cuban people the continuity of the Latin American emancipatory horizon that seeks to reconstitute the common in the face of the violence of capital characterized by the destruction of territories, peoples and life.
We join all the voices that, in different parts of the world, say:
STOP TERRICIDE!
STOP THE WARS!
STOP THE EXTERMINATION OF LIFE!
THE CUBAN, VENEZUELAN, AND KURD PEOPLE IN RESISTANCE ARE NOT ALONE!
February 2th 2026
CLACSO Working Group on Bodies, Territories, Resistances
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.
