Intellectuals and artists from Mexico called on their counterparts in the United States to deploy the broadest solidarity with the peoples of Latin America, especially the Cuban people, amidst the tightening of the United States blockade.
In an open letter to intellectuals, artists, academics and university students of the northern country, they mentioned that these are «crucial moments in the struggle for the survival of the human species in the face of civilisational and environmental collapse.»
«We expect from you the strength of your voice and your moral authority reflected in specific actions that deploy the broadest solidarity with the peoples of Our America and, especially, with the Cuban people, bastion of Latin American and Caribbean dignity,» the Mexicans stated.
The members of the Mexican Chapter of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity echoed the call of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) to the global intellectual community to denounce the blockade imposed by Washington and the recent energy siege against the island.
The signing in January by the North American president, Donald Trump, of an executive order threatening to apply tariffs to countries that supply crude oil to the largest of the Antilles was described by the Uneac as an attempted genocide, pointed out the Chapter.
It highlighted another fragment of the island organisation’s declaration in which it states that being with Cuba today is to defend peace and the right of all peoples of the world to self-determination.
The intellectuals and artists of Mexico addressed the North Americans, as «heirs of the tradition in the United States of those who opposed the war of conquest undertaken against our country in 1846-1848,» among them, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Thomas Corwin.
Likewise, they referred to Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Gridley Howe and Theodore Parker, «who vehemently denounced that war, and, some even went to prison for defending their anti-war convictions.»
They also remembered those who opposed the United States entering the First World War, such as Emma Goldman, Jane Adams and John Reed, and the anti-fascist fighters who formed the Lincoln Brigade in defence of the Spanish Republic.
They also made reference to those who were against the Vietnam War and to those who today denounce the recent military aggression of Washington against Venezuela, which occurred on the 3rd of January last, and the kidnapping of the president of that country, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.
While underscoring their position that «With Cuba, forever,» the members of the Network affixed their signatures, among which are those of Miguel Álvarez, Alicia Castellanos, Dulce Castro, Tatiana Coll, Polo Castellanos, Ana Esther Ceceña and Carlos Fazio.
Also José Antonio Hernández, Luis Hernández Navarro, Gilberto López y Rivas, Daniel Martínez Cunill, Josefina Morales, Nayar López, Georgette Ramírez, Darío Salinas, Raúl Romero, Marcela Román, Alessandra Pradel, Adalberto Santana, Samuel Sosa and Marco Velázquez.
