Academics from Mexican universities condemned the ongoing US blockade against Cuba, rejected any military aggression, and called on countries in the region to resume fuel sales to the island nation.
“From Mexican universities, academics express our full support for the sovereignty and independence of Cuba, and our rejection of any military aggression that the Donald Trump administration may attempt against this sister nation,” they stated.
In a statement titled “Always With Cuba,” members of institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) described the economic, commercial, and financial embargo imposed by Washington for more than six decades as inhumane.
They especially condemned the energy blockade imposed since last January (following an executive order by US President Donald Trump), which, in the signatories’ view, constitutes “an illegal and illegitimate action, violating all norms of international law.”
The lack of access to fuel resulting from the intensification of the aggressive US policy affects such sensitive areas as electricity generation, the operation of hospitals, food production and distribution, and water pumping on the island.
“At this crucial juncture in the struggle for the survival of the human species in the face of systemic, civilizational, and environmental collapse, we hope that the peoples and governments of the world will firmly oppose the imperial and warmongering strategy” of the northern nation, they asserted.
The more than 200 academics called for “the States of Our America to resume the sale of energy to Cuba, as well as the establishment of trade and cooperation agreements, without any restrictions.”
“It is clear: by complying with the oil embargo against Cuba, Mexico’s exercise of sovereignty and the right to self-determination of Latin America and the Caribbean are being violated,” they emphasized.
They reiterated their full solidarity with the Cuban people and their Revolution, “a bastion of Latin American and Caribbean dignity.”
Among the signatories of the statement are also members of the University of Guadalajara, the National Pedagogical University, the University of Veracruz, and the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
