A small boat struck by the US military in the Caribbean, leaving three victims dead on November 6, 2025. Photo: X/@SecWar.
Russia is closely monitoring the growing deterioration of the situation in the Caribbean brought about by the ongoing US military aggression in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said. She also expressed her country’s support for Venezuela and called on the United States to reorient its anti-drug efforts more toward its own territory.
“It is not just experts who now remember the Monroe Doctrine. It is evident that the doctrine has not been renounced if we look at what has happened in the region in recent years,” she said at a press conference on Friday, November 7, referring to the US policy of exclusive influence in the Americas, promulgated two centuries ago.
“Certainly, we are closely monitoring the evolution of the situation in the southern Caribbean, where the situation continues to deteriorate, raising concern among the states of the region, which, let me remind you, declared themselves a zone of peace in 2014,” she commented.
The official added that Russia “traditionally defends the stable development of Latin American and Caribbean countries, as well as the resolution of all differences by peaceful and civilized means. She expressed Moscow’s “firm support for the Venezuelan government in its defense of national sovereignty.”
“In the context of the current situation, we maintain close and constant contact with our Venezuelan friends,” she said. “Russia expresses its unwavering solidarity with Venezuela and stands ready to respond appropriately to Caracas’ requests, taking into account both current and potential challenges.”
In this vein, she urged the countries involved to “refrain from escalation” and “promote the search for solutions to existing problems in a constructive manner, respecting the norms of international law.”
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Drugs, the “new normal”
Referring to the “war on drugs” that Washington uses as a pretext for its unjustified military presence in the southern Caribbean, Zakharova suggested that “now that the US has suddenly remembered, at this historic moment, that drugs are an evil, perhaps it is worth it for the US to go after the criminals within its own elite.”
“Who, within your country, has lobbied over the past few decades for the legalization of drugs and the distribution of narcotics? Who, mentally, philosophically, theoretically, and practically have accustomed American society to a new normal that includes viewing drugs as a kind of salvation from adversity and depression, and as a form of entertainment and almost a pastime?” she asked.
In this context, she reminded influential figures who, in various international forums, advocated for substitution therapy, in which “the aim is not to treat people for their drug addiction but, on the contrary, to bring it under control without subjecting them to criticism or the proper regulation of prohibitions.”
“It seems to me that we should start there, or at least address it first,” she stated.
Zakharova further pointed out that every time Russia raised concerns about these approaches in international forums, “for some reason, it was precisely the representatives of the Western community, the United States, who criticized it.”
She also suggested asking those responsible, who still hold important positions within the US, “why there are so many people on the streets of various US cities openly using drugs and literally dying from them on those streets.”
On Thursday, the US Senate rejected, in a 51-49 vote, a resolution that sought to prevent US President Donald Trump from attacking Venezuela without congressional authorization. The measure, sponsored by Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, was backed by only two Republicans.
On Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that his country’s peace “cannot depend on what supremacist gringos say.”
“Venezuela’s peace cannot depend on what the gringos say, write, or declare. Let them have their superiority complex,” the Venezuelan president said during an official event at a rural commune in Miranda state.
In August, the US deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, fighter jets, and troops off the coast of Venezuela under the guise of fighting against drug trafficking. Since then, those forces have carried out a series of bombings on small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, resulting in nearly 70 deaths to date, without any evidence that they were transporting drugs.
Washington also accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, again without any evidence, of leading a drug cartel that does not actually exist. Thereafter, US Attorney General Pam Bondi raised the reward for information leading to President Maduro’s arrest to $50 million.
Venezuelan authorities have called the US actions an aggression aimed at seizing Venezuela’s natural resources.
(RT)
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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