The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, speaks at the 13th Special Summit of the Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP. Photo: X/@ALBATCP.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, repudiated the United States’ imperialist aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean, including direct attacks against the people of Venezuela and the constitutional president of the country, at the 13th Special Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).
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In his speech delivered at the summit on Wednesday, August 20, the Cuban president highlighted that imperialism is employing an aggressive strategy against the region, violating international law and the United Nations Charter, as well as contravening regional and global resolutions against coercion. The leader urged countries of the world to resist and condemn these attacks.
President Díaz-Canel repudiated the violation of peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. He argued that the United States is using the fight against drug trafficking as a pretext in this regard, concealing its interventionist intentions.
.@DiazCanelB, Presidente de #Cuba 🇨🇺 condena en su intervención en XIII Cumbre Extraordinaria del #ALBATCP el irrespeto por el gobierno de EEUU de las normas más elementales del Derecho Internacional y a la soberanía y autodeterminación de los pueblos. #ALBAUnida #ZonaDePaz pic.twitter.com/bGIxJwUEg9
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The special summit addresses regional challenges generated by US interventionist policies. In this regard, Díaz-Canel emphasized the importance of Latin American unity.
The Cuban leader criticized the Trump administration for its assault on sovereign governments. He condemned the unproven accusations against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that attempt to spuriously link the president to drug trafficking. The Cuban president referred these actions as a strategy employed by the United States in their ongoing attempts at regime-change in the region.
In line with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, Díaz-Canel proposed concrete actions. “We consider it necessary for the CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States] to express its condemnation against this new colonization attempt. Therefore, we call for a special meeting of CELAC foreign ministers,” he announced.
The Cuban president also evoked the region’s historical struggle. “The blood of our heroes was not shed in vain,” he said, and declared that the peoples of the region will defend their sovereignty.
Moreover, he highlighted the importance of not losing sight of the genocide in Gaza committed by the Zionist entity. “We have to keep demanding, in every forum, in every space, in every expression of rejection of imperialism, that the genocide in Gaza cease,” he emphasized. “The threats that now loom over Venezuela are based on the same philosophy of dispossession that has turned a small strip of land into the hell of this world. Enough with the Zionist impunity. Enough of complicity with the empire. All crimes have perpetrators and accomplices that sustain the crimes over time.”
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In the same vein, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated during the summit that historically, Latin America and the Caribbean has been a territory in dispute between the people who live there and the hegemonic projects of the US empire.
“We see how the empire kills Palestinian children who go looking for water and food,” President Maduro said. “They are killed with missiles, and it is broadcast on social media. They bomb noble and unarmed people.” The president went on to condemn “the normalization of the use of force and crime in all its expressions.”
He also emphasized the unity of the peoples of the region, noting that ALBA is strengthened by its political, human, and ideological identity.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, issued a strong warning about the consequences that a US military intervention in Venezuela could have.
The US regime “will be mistaken if they think that invading Venezuela will solve their problem,” said President Petro during a council of ministers. “They are dragging Venezuela into a Syria situation, only with the problem that they are dragging Colombia into the same thing.”
His statement comes at a time of maximum tension between Washington and Caracas, following US military and naval deployments near Venezuelan coasts.
(Telesur) with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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