The Cuban government noted Thursday that “a direct military aggression” of the United States against Venezuela “would have incalculable consequences” for the peace and stability of the region and argued that this attack only seeks to “take over” oil in the oil of the South American country.
“It cannot afford a government to resort to the threat or use of force in the contravention of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and International Law,” considered Havana in a statement published on the Foreign Ministry website.
The United States announced at the end of last August that it would use “all its power” to stop the “drug flow to your country”, which included the sending of ships and soldiers to the south of the Caribbean Sea, in international waters, near Venezuela.
To date, the United States has confirmed the sinking of three vessels that, alleges, contained drugs and were manned by drug traffickers.
Cuba, a historic ally of Venezuela, considers that these facts are part of an “escalation of actions” from Washington “to justify a military aggression” against Venezuela in order to “take over the oil and the resources of Venezuela.”
“The accumulation and increase of military media and effectiveness in the Caribbean Sea, the use of force to attack civil boats and kill its crew and unjustified interception and detention of a ship, in violation of international standards, confirm the hostile and irresponsible nature of the ongoing operation,” he denounced.
This declaration of the Cuban government criticized that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and other politicians “try to impose their interests by force in Venezuela, which is unjustifiable and dangerous.”
For Havana, military deployment is “an act of provocation” to “trigger a military conflict that forces the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to defend their territorial sovereignty and integrity.”
Like Caracas, the Cuban government considers that Washington is looking to promote a “regime change” in Venezuela.
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In that sense, he called the “international mobilization to prevent aggression and preserve Latin America and the Caribbean as a peace zone proclaimed by its heads of state and government.”
Washington maintains deployed in the Caribbean, near Venezuelan waters, eight military ships with missiles and a nuclear propulsion submarine, and ordered the sending of ten F-35 combat planes to an air base in Puerto Rico.
The Trump administration accuses the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, to lead the so -called Los Soles Cartel, indicated by the United States as a terrorist organization allegedly linked to drug trafficking.
This has been the reason for the military mobilization in the Caribbean and the increase to 50 million dollars of the reward for information that allows the capture of the Chavista leader.
