Over 400 researchers and scholars from around the world signed a statement condemning the Jan. 3 US attacks and demanding reparations for VenezuelaWe, the undersigned scholars, students, and academic workers, unequivocally condemn the Trump administration’s January 3 strikes against Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The attacks are a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter by a US president claiming, “I don’t need international law.”The unilateral act of aggression is the culmination of a quarter-century of US hybrid warfare targeting the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, first under President Hugo Chávez and subsequently under Maduro. This regime change campaign has included draconian economic sanctions, repeated coup attempts, financing of anti-government NGOs, and corporate media disinformation.As the Trump administration has evidenced in its invocation of the Monroe Doctrine and brazen threats against other left-led countries in the region, the egregious onslaught on Venezuela’s sovereignty constitutes an unprecedented kinetic escalation of Washington’s crusade to shore up its declining imperial hegemony across the hemisphere and around the globe. It moreover poses a serious menace to the regime of political sovereignty that was the lasting achievement of the Bandung era of national liberation, threatening to generalize across Latin America and the Caribbean the state dismemberment and semi-colonization visited upon Iraq, Haiti, DRC, Libya, Sudan, and Syria over the past three decades. Together with the ongoing genocide in Palestine, these wars of encroachment waged by the West represent an existential danger to humanity.As such, we the undersigned demand the following:The immediate release and repatriation of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.The immediate and unconditional lifting of all US unilateral coercive measures against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, its officials, and associated entities; the return of all pilfered Venezuelan state assets, including CITGO.The immediate withdrawal of all US military assets and bases from the region, as consistent with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States’ (CELAC) 2014 declaration of the Americas a “zone of peace.”The payment of reparations to Venezuela for the destruction inflicted in the January 3 strikes as well as for the economic losses caused by US sanctions over the last decade; the UN General Assembly should appoint an independent commission of economists to calculate the total dollar amount owed to the Venezuelan state.The end of the US blockade against Cuba and payment of reparations likewise to be assessed by an independent UNGA-appointed commission.As of January 16, 420 researchers and scholars have signed the statement.Partial list of signatories (click here for the statement and full list in pdf form)Atilio A. Boron, Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda y Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)Sandra Oblitas, Rectora de la Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela (UBV)Miguel Mazzeo, Universidad Nacional de Lanús y UBAMariela Castro Espín, Miembro Titular de la Academia de Ciencias de CubaSteve Ellner, Latin American PerspectivesOmar Hurtado Rayugsen, Presidente del Centro Nacional de Estudios Históricos, VenezuelaElias Jaua Milano, Centros de Estudios para la Democracia Socialista (CEDES)Ramon Grosfoguel, Associate Professor of Chicanx Latinx Studies, University of California, BerkeleyAlejandrina Reyes, Rectora Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez / Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales Simón Rodríguez IISSR Centro CLACSOArchana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IndiaJuan Eduardo Romero, Historiador/Diputado Asamblea Nacional de VenezuelaClaudio Katz, UBA/CONICETFernando Buen Abad Domínguez, Universidad Internacional de las Comunicaciones/ Cátedra MacBrideNéstor Kohan, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)Paris Yeros, Federal University of ABC (UFABC), BrazilCarlota McAllister, York UniversityDavid Kazanjian, University of PennsylvaniaMax Ajl, University of Tunis & University of GhentLucas M. Koerner, Harvard UniversityReinaldo Iturriza López, Centros de Estudios para la Democracia Socialista (CEDES)Freedom Mazwi, University of ZambiaEsther Lezra, University of California Santa BarbaraSarah Raymundo, University of the PhilippinesFrancisca López Civeira, Universidad de la HabanaAnna Zalik, York UniversityMatteo Capasso, Northwest University, ChinaJosefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York UniversityIlka Boaventura Leite, Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaNazia Kazi, Stockton, Stockton UniversityJavier Sánchez, Universidad de AntioquiaBikrum Gill, Virginia TechJavier I. Echaide, University of Buenos Aires (UBA) / CONICET, ArgentinaCorinna Mullin, City University of New YorkIván Pincheira, Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, ChileNina Farnia, Albany Law SchoolMartha Prieto Valdés, Académica de Mérito de la ACC-CubaEsteve Morera, York UniversityFarwa Sial, SOASMojubaolu Olufunke Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNYGabriel Rockhill, Villanova UniversityPatrick Higgins, University of HoustonLuccas Gissoni, Universidade Federal do ABCEdh Rodríguez, ANEP/CFE (Uruguay)Hilda Saladrigas Medina, Universidad de La Habana-ACCJennifer Ponce de León, University of PennsylvaniaOlmedo Beluche, Universidad de PanamáMaria Haro Sly, Johns Hopkins UniversityNidia Matilde Beltrán Prieto, Directora y docente UBVPedro Lovera Parmo, Universidad de SantiagoImmanuel Ness, Brooklyn CollegeSara Aldabe, UBA-CONICETJosé Romero Losacco, Instituto Venezolano de Investigación Científica (IVIC)Rosa Elizabeth Acevedo Marin, Universidade Federal do Pará, BrasilErnesto Wong Maestre, CEEP UBVEthel Tungohan, York UniversityAdam Miyashiro, Stockton UniversityJosé Antonio Hernández Macías, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Vicente Battista, Escritor/ArgentinaJaime Caicedo Turriago, ASPU Asociación Sindical de Profesores Universitarios, ColombiaRenate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, CUNYMaribel Almaguer Rondón, Universidad de Camagüey, CubaMaria Auxiliadora César, Universidade de BrasiliaClaudia Chaufan, York UniversityArturo Guillén, Departamento de Economía de la UAM IztapalapaRaul Kroeff Machado Carrion, Fundação Maurício Grabois – BrasilOlga Fernández Rios, Instituto de Filosofía y Vicepresidenta Academia de Ciencias de CubaPaula Vidal, Universidad de ChileStefan Kipfer, York UniversityAlberto Quintero, IVICSandra Angeleri, Independent ScholarDouglas Marín, Universidad Central de VenezuelaBen Norton, Tsinghua UniversityChristo El Morr, York UniversityCory Fischer-Hoffman, Independent ScholarTaylor R. Genovese, SUNY – DutchessRanu Basu, York UniversityDisamis Arcia Muñoz, Universidad de La HabanaMagnus S. Kjærgaard, Aarhus University, DKJordan Corson, Stockton UniversityAdrienne Pine, UC RiversideJesús Peña, UNEARTEAna Sáenz, Centro Marie LangerGreg Albo, York UniversityMayda Álvarez Suárez, Academia de Ciencias de CubaAlejandro Pedregal, Aalto UniversityJeannette Graulau, Lehman CollegeMarcelo Colussi, Escritor / GuatemalaTimothy Kerswell, Development Watch CentreJaime Acosta Gonzalez, UC RiversideChristian Flores, UNEARTEMaria Luiza Pinho Pereira, Universidade de BrasíliaMarxlenin P. Valdés, IDEAS MultimediosAdrian Ortega Camara Lind, Beijing Normal UniversityHarjeet Badwall, York UniversityTamara Lajtman, IEALC, UBAJorge Luis Oviedo Castillo, REDH HondurasJoaquin Barrutia, Emory UniversityCarlos San Vicente, UCVMichael Pelias, LIU BrooklynJosefina Morales, UNAM (Venezuelanalysis)