“No to military aggression on Cuba. International Manifesto against the rise of fascism in Latin America,” reads the document, which released in Mexico, it gathers signatures from prominent figures in Latin American and European culture, academia, and politics.

  Notable signatories include Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez, Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet, Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron, Casa de las Americas director Abel Prieto, and British academic Helen Yaffe.

  The text remembers that this year, Cuba was accused—without any evidence—of posing an “extraordinary and unusual” threat to U.S. national security, harboring terrorist organizations, and acquiring offensive weapons.

  It adds that an incident from 30 years ago was even manipulated to fabricate a criminal charge against the leader of the Revolution, Raul Castro.

  It denounces that the permanent economic sabotage the United States has practiced for 67 years has been compounded by a total blockade on fuel imports and pressure on companies from third countries to abandon their business dealings on the island.

  “The fabrication of lies and media threats against the Cuban people and government has also intensified. Cuba has received only one oil tanker in six months and cannot conduct financial transactions,” the text warns. It asserts that Washington’s measures against the Caribbean nation bear the characteristics of genocide.

  Nevertheless, it warns, promoters of anti-Cuban hatred—led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio—are pressuring President Donald Trump to approve military aggression that would result in the indiscriminate deaths of Cubans and the loss of American lives.

  “We have been unable to stop the genocide in Gaza; we do not want another Gaza in Latin America,” the manifesto emphasizes.

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