In a public statement, more than 1,000 academics from over 36 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Africa call upon their peers worldwide \u201cnot to remain complicitly silent in the face of the crimes systematically and widely perpetrated by the United States government against the people of Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The document denounces the energy blockade imposed by Washington since January of this year, which compounds the hundreds of unilateral coercive measures enacted by the Donald Trump administration and the policy\u2014spanning more than six decades\u2014of economic, commercial, and financial blockade against the largest of the Antilles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, it declares that these measures violate international law and constitute crimes against humanity, as well as a form of collective punishment against the entire Cuban population. The infant mortality rate is cited as an example in the appeal, having risen by 148% since 2018\u2014from 4 per 1,000 births to 9.9 in 2025\u2014as a direct result of U.S. policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The signatories state that they view \u201cwith great hope the emergence of voices among academics in the United States and other countries who, with rigor and courage, denounce these crimes.\u201d However, they also lament that some academics join \u201cthe State Department\u2019s chorus,\u201d producing work that fails to enrich academic debate and instead serves as material \u201cinstrumentalized\u201d for the commission of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the signatories of the \u201cCall to Academia Regarding the Situation in Cuba: Silence Is Complicity\u201d are: Alberto Rocha Valencia, Mexico; Allisa Trotz, Canada; Ana Esther Cece\u00f1a, Mexico; Anton Allahar, Canada; Atilio Bor\u00f3n, Argentina; Camille Chalmers, Haiti; Carlos E. Martins, Brazil; Claudio Katz, Argentina; Dar\u00edo Salinas, Mexico; D\u00eddimo Castillo Fern\u00e1ndez, Mexico; Emilio Pantojas, Puerto Rico; Eric Toussaint, Belgium; Fernando Estenssoro, Chile; Francisco L\u00f3pez Segrera, Cuba; Gabriel Rockhill, United States; Helen Yaffe, United Kingdom; Irene Le\u00f3n, Ecuador; Isaac Saney, Canada; Jaime Estay, Mexico; Jaime Zuluaga, Colombia; Javier Vadell, Brazil; Jason Hickel, United States; Jeffrey Sachs, United States\/Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also: John Kirk, Canada; Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Caba\u00f1as, Cuba; Josefina Morales, Mexico; Leandro Morgenfeld, Argentina; Luis Bernardo Peric\u00e1s, Brazil; Luiz Eduardo Motta, Brazil; Maribel Aponte, Puerto Rico; Mat\u00edas Bosch Carcuro, Dominican Republic; M\u00f3nica Bruckmann, Peru; Pablo Vommaro, Argentina; Par Kumaraswami, United Kingdom; Ram\u00f3n Grosfoguel, United States; Ra\u00fal Rodr\u00edguez, Cuba; Renzo Llorente, Spain; Ricardo Dom\u00ednguez Guadarrama, Mexico; Sacha Sergio Llorenti, Bolivia; Sandra Kanety Zavaleta Hern\u00e1ndez, Mexico; Steve Ellner, United States; Tamara Lajtman, Brazil; and Teishan A. Latner, United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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