The Government of Cuba, through the Chancellor Bruno Rodríguez Parrillahe considered that Latin America and the Caribbean are “under threat” of the United States, that with the new administration of Donald Trump It requires the nations of the continent “submission” or “aggression.”
The diplomat argued on social networks that USA It is returning to this way to the Monroe doctrine – resumes in the maximum of “America for the Americans” – but “by way of force”, reviews an office of the EFE agency.
Latin America and the Caribbean are under threat.
The US government is clearly expressing that the options are submission or be an object of aggression. The monroe doctrine through force.
It is the time of counting, as Martí said.#Martívive pic.twitter.com/kft8b4btnp
– Bruno Rodríguez P (@brunorguezp) January 31, 2025
“Latin America and the Caribbean are under threat. The US government is clearly expressing that the options are submission or be an object of aggression. The Monroe doctrine by force, ”wrote the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex).
With his message Rodríguez Parrilla seemed to refer so much to the recent diplomatic conflicts of Washington with Colombia and Brazil for the deportation of undocumented migrants and the controversial statements of Trump about Canada, Groenland and the Panama Canal.
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The head of the Cuban diplomacy added, consequently, that he believes that it is “the time of counting”, in reference to a phrase that the Cuban hero, José Martí, wrote in his well -known essay Our America, published in 1891.
In that text Martí alerts about the turning point in relations between the United States and the rest of the continent and urges Latin American nations to a cultural, political and social emancipation of the United States.
In addition, it alerts the dangers of imperialism, sometimes resorting to a rhetoric with military touches.
The Cuban government has hardened its tone against the United States since the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections last November.
On the day of his investiture, the Republican again included the island in the list of sponsoring countries of terrorism, of which he had left days before by decision of his predecessor in office, the Democrat Joe Biden.
In the act of brutality, the new US government announces imprisonment based in Naval Base in Guantanamo, located in the territory of #Cuba illegally occupied, of thousands of migrants who necessarily expel, to which he will place with the well -known prisons of illegal torture and detention.
-Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@diazcanelb) January 29, 2025
This Thursday the Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel He described as “an act of brutality” the claims announced by the Trump administration to send to the Naval Base of Guantanamo thousands of undocumented migrants who do not manage to deport their countries of origin.
The military installation is located in the easternmost portion of the Cuban archipelago, and served as a detention center for suspects to commit terrorism acts, following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
“We will have 30 thousand beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst illegal criminal immigrants who are a threat to the American people,” Trump said, after signing a law against migrants with minor crimes.
