This chapter evaluates the mechanisms of public diplomacy used in recent decades by the Cuban authoritarian regime to influence foreign citizens abroad as well as democratic states. In particular, the strategy used in international academic spaces will be analyzed by studying the collaboration networks established by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). This institution, created to protect exiled academics during the period of the national security regimes in Latin America, has been used by the Cuban regime as an agent of public diplomacy that, through incoherent academic discourse, legitimizes academic censorship and human rights violations that take place in Cuba.