Cuba Rejects US Military Threats Against Venezuela

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today rejected the interference, threats, and preparations for military aggression that the United States is promoting against Venezuela with the aim of overthrowing its legitimate government.

In a message posted on social media, the president described. Such actions as unacceptable and recalled that the gunboat policy and the Monroe Doctrine belong to a neocolonial era that has already been overcome.

“Latin America and the Caribbean is a Zone of Peace,” Díaz-Canel emphasized. Alluding to the proclamation adopted by the countries of the region at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in 2014.
Since September 2nd, the United States government has carried out a series of attacks on small vessels in international waters in areas of the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. Under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking, which it blames on Venezuela.

In response to US accusations, Venezuelan authorities have put forward a unified message rejecting the framework of bilateral confrontation and denouncing it as a multilateral campaign of aggression.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described Washington’s actions as a smear campaign against his administration to “justify anything” against the Bolivarian nation.

Maduro asserted that the United States’ true objective is “regime change” in order to seize Venezuela’s immense oil and gas reserves.

With information from Prensa Latina