Havana.- The Government of Cuba described this Friday as an “act of modern piracy” and an “arbitrary and condemnable” measure seizure by the United States of a Venezuelan plane that was in the Dominican Republic.
Washington argued that confiscation responded to alleged violations of its export and sanctions control laws.
For its part, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canelexpressed his rejection of the action, stating that he represents “one more sample of the attachment to the Monroe doctrinea neocolonial domination mechanism, ”he wrote on his social networks.
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The president said that, with that action, the US government “confirms its disrespect to the norms of international law by illegally confiscating a Venezuelan plane.”
For his part, the Chancellor of the Island, Bruno Rodríguez, said that the US Secretary of State ».
“It incurs a condemnable and arbitrary act of modern piracy, which violates International Law and UN Letter,” said the head of Foreign Affairs in his message in X.
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s government confiscated the plane that was parked in a hangar of a Santo Domingo airport For alleged violations of US export and sanctions control laws, the second apparatus seized from Venezuela in the last five months.
The Dominican authorities delivered to Rubio, who visited the country, this device in the La Isabela Airport, in Santo Domingowhere he was held since 2024.
The US secretary said, through X, that the Venezuelan aircraft was used to “evade US sanctions and money laundering.”
According to him US Department of Justice This is a 2000ex Dassault Falcon Petróleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA).
According to American research, the plane acquired in 2017 by PDVSA in the US and exported to Venezuela, was “reviewed and maintained on multiple occasions using the United States pieces”, something that violates export and sanctions control laws Washington.
Last September, the previous American administration chaired by Joe Bidenanother apparatus allegedly linked to the president was seized Nicolás Maduro that he was in Dominican Republic for maintenance reasons.
