Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Jan 31. - The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO, For its acronym in Spanish) today rejected the hostility of the United States Government and, in particular, the recent executive order from the administration of Donald Trump against Cuba.
Through a statement titled Cuba Is Not a Threat to the United States, It Is a Symbol of Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, CLACSO stated that the White House's policy toward the Caribbean nation is marked by imperial arrogance.
The U.S. Government’s executive order, which seeks to declare Cuba as an unusual and extraordinary threat to its national security, is based on a framework of lies, unfounded accusations, and unsustainable arguments, the document asserts.
Such an assertion, it adds, exposes the genocidal nature of the U.S. ruling elite and seeks to justify the brutal and disproportionate escalation of a prolonged siege, through secondary and extraterritorial sanctions that flagrantly violate the essential principles of international law and international humanitarian law.
Cuba does not constitute a threat to the U.S. or any other country in the world, it states, and highlights that the international prestige of Cuban foreign policy is widely recognized in multilateral forums and by the majority of nations.
Likewise, it emphasizes that the Caribbean country defends sovereign equality and the inalienable right of all States to self-determination.
Cuba practices solidarity, supports just causes, and firmly speaks out against neocolonialism, affirms the regional body.
Moreover, it underlines that the principles of anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, solidarity internationalism and the defense of national sovereignty and self-determination guide Cuban foreign policy.
This international recognition, earned with coherence and dignity, is intolerable for a decadent empire that acts with absolute contempt for international institutions and the basic norms of coexistence among nations, the text notes.
It further adds that CLACSO’s Member Centers in Cuba firmly condemn the U.S. executive order and consider it outrageous to label that State as a threat to U.S. security.
The CLACSO Steering Committee and the Cuban centers of that organization also called on the intellectual community and all who consider this denunciation a just endeavor in defense of Cuban sovereignty and that of all nations, to speak out against the unjust and cruel U.S. policy toward Cuba.
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences is an international non-governmental institution with associative status in UNESCO, founded in 1967.
It brings together 961 social science and humanities research and postgraduate centers from 56 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other continents. (Text and photo: PL)
