John Beverley: US Aggression on Cuba would be Criminal
US researcher and literary critic John Beverley considers the idea of his country´s military intervention in Cuba to be inadmissible and a criminal goal.

Beverley, who has traveled to Cuba on several occasions, thinks that if foreign interference in US affairs is unjustified, why should it be acceptable for the US to do that to other countries, he stated in an interview with Prensa Latina over Internet.

The profesor and director of the Hispanic Language and Literature Department of the University of Pittsburg, is a profound scholar on political thought in this region where he has conducted research studies in several nations.

Signatory of the document released in Havana Ander the title Cuban Sovereignty must be Respected, explained the rehaznos for his adherence to the manifest signed already by over 13 thousand personalities from a hundred nations.

I have been visiting Cuba over the last 25 years as researcher and invited lecturer. Evidently, there are problems, it would be naive to deny it, but problems must be solved by Cubans themselves, he said.

Asked about the secret chapter contained in the Bush Plan for Transition in Cuba, Beverley said he did not know its content, but I don´t doubt there is the idea and a plan for military intervention in Cuba among the reactionary sectors of the US political community.

The idea of a military intervention to "facilitate" a democratic transition in Cuba, would be a criminal goal not only in terms of international law, but also in terms of what has been the official US stand until today.

What in your opinion is the role of culture and intelligentsia in this sombre beginning of a new century? asked Prensa Latina. Neoliberalism also implies a sort of privatization of intellectuals, including those with left tendencies. We take refuge in our careers and institutions, said Beverley.

The Pittsburgh University professor spoke up in favour of intellectuals raising their voices because it is important to reactivate the idea of socialism as a possible horizon for humanity.

As for current projects, Beverley is writing a book whose title could be Before the Nation, a study on several 18th Century thinkers, from the US (like his ancestor Robert Beverley who was one of the first colonial historian of what is currently the state of Virginia), South America or the Caribbean (as Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Landivar, Tupac Amaru and a certain current of the Haitian Revolution).

The idea would be to open, from a postcolonial, prer-national common past, new possibilities for the future of the Americas´ nation states, concluded Beverley.