Cuba called on Friday of “modern piracy act” the confiscation made by the United States of an airplane owned by Venezuela, which was in the Dominican Republic, alleging alleged violations of US export control laws and sanctions.
“The act qualifies as modern piracy and is a new demonstration of the commitment to the Monroe doctrine, a neocolonial instrument of domination,” said President Miguel Díaz-Canel on social networks.
The US government confirms its disrespect to the norms of international law by illegally confiscating a Venezuelan plane.
The act qualifies as modern piracy and is a new demonstration of the commitment to the Monroe doctrine, a neocolonial instrument of domination.
-Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@diazcanelb) February 7, 2025
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 Foreign Minister 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.
Secretary of State for #USA It aims to become the ‘sheriff’ of Latin America and the Caribbean with the illegal confiscation of a Venezuelan plane.
It incurs a condemnable and arbitrary act of modern piracy, which violates International Law and UN Letter. pic.twitter.com/4O1ZFQ8VZ9
– Bruno Rodríguez P (@brunorguezp) February 7, 2025
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s government confiscated the plane that was parked in a hangar of an airport in Santo Domingo for alleged violations of US export control laws and sanctions, the second apparatus seized to Venezuela in the last five months.
The Dominican authorities delivered to Rubio, who visited the country, this device at the Isabela airport, in Santo Domingo, where 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 the US Department of Justice, it is a Dassault Falcon 2000Ex used by the sanctioned state company 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 US pieces”, something that violates export control laws and sanctions of Washington.
Last September, the previous American administration chaired by Joe Biden seized another apparatus allegedly linked to President Nicolás Maduro who was in the Dominican Republic for maintenance issues.
