Havana.- The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, described this Saturday as an “act of terrorism” and “violation of international law” the United States’ attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
The island’s ruler, Caracas’s main ally, called U.S. President Donald Trump a “neofascist.”“The most fervent aspirant to the Nobel Peace Prize is actually the greatest threat to the peace of the continent (…) His insidious attack on Venezuela breaks with the stability that has characterized our region,” he added.
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Díaz-Canel led an event this morning at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, a square located in front of the Havana seawall and next to the United States embassy in Cuba. Hundreds of supporters of the island government, members of the Executive and the Venezuelan ambassador in Havana, Orlando Maneiro, attended the concentration. The Cuban president, who demanded the release of the Venezuelan president, also stated that Washington’s actions aim at “Venezuelan oil”, its lands and “natural resources” Cuba, a historical ally of Venezuela, was one of the first nations to denounce Washington’s attack on Caracas perpetrated this morning. Díaz-Canel described the military aggression as “brutal and treacherous” and the “kidnapping” of Maduro and his wife as “unacceptable, vulgar and barbaric.” “The United States has no moral authority and is responsible to the world for Maduro’s physical integrity,” Díaz-Canel emphasized, visibly annoyed.President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. carried out “successfully” a large-scale attack against Venezuela and that Maduro was captured along with his wife Cilia Flores and sent to the North American country where they will be tried.
The United States has maintained a naval and air deployment in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, near Venezuela, since September, under the argument of combating drug trafficking. He also linked Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to the Cartel of the Suns, a group allegedly linked to drug trafficking. In this context, Washington reported attacks on about twenty alleged boats in the service of drug trafficking and the death of more than 80 crew members. Cuba, a historical ally of Venezuela, has warned from the beginning of the tensions that “cannot be legally or morally accepted” what it always considered as “pretexts” by the United States for a military aggression against Venezuela.
