US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Presidential Palace in San José, Costa Rica, on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Photo: Jeffrey Arguedas/EFE.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) has issued a statement condemning recent statements by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela “enemies of humanity.”
The Alliance “firmly rejects the hateful and interventionist statements of [US] Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who, in his attempt to justify his interventionist policy, has once again instigated attacks on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, free and sovereign countries that have overcome decades of aggression,” reads the statement published this Thursday, February 6.
#Communiqué | ALBA-TCP supports Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua in the face of U.S. aggression
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) firmly rejects the hateful and interfering statements made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who, in his attempt to… pic.twitter.com/Lf4yKsh4Tx
— ALBA-TCP (@ALBATCP) February 6, 2025
Last Tuesday, February 4, during a stopover in Costa Rica as part of his Latin American tour, US State Secretary Rubio said that Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela are “enemies of humanity” and accused them of being responsible for the migration crisis in the hemisphere.
The statement made by ALBA-TCP notes that Rubio’s statements are promoting “anti-values, based on the genocide of indigenous peoples and the exploitation of migrants.”
“Today, this agent intends to blame our countries for a migration crisis that his own government has caused,” it reads. “The United States is the main [actor] responsible for forced migration in Our America, with its economic wars, criminal blockades, and policies of plunder. The American dream is a fable that manipulates migrants and then deports them in inhumane conditions, as they themselves have demonstrated.”
In the document, it was emphasized that Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua “are not the problem; they are victims of an aggressive policy that cannot tolerate free peoples deciding their own destiny.”
In light of this situation, ALBA-TCP demanded an immediate cessation of aggression against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, while reiterating its “categorical rejection” of this new phase of “extortion against all of Our America, which will not surrender or allow itself to be intimidated by lies and manipulation, and supports the peoples and governments of these sister nations.”
Venezuelan Foreign Minister
The foreign minister of Venezuelan, Yván Gil, posted a response to Rubio’s interventionist statements on social media the same day.
“Marco Rubio, pathetic obsessed man!” he wrote. “It seems that he cannot sleep without thinking about Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Is it because, despite the hatred he exudes and his desire to do harm with blockades, sanctions, and aggression, these people have defeated him time and again with dignity and firmness? Rubio’s resentment is nothing more than the rage of a frustrated bureaucrat, who cannot bear to see how sovereign nations stand up to him and tear up his script.”
“The only enemies of humanity are those who, with their machinery of war and abuse, have been sowing chaos and misery throughout the world for decades,” Gil’s statement reads. “But Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela have shown that they do not bend, that they do not sell out, that they do not give in. And that is something that the spokespeople of the losers and lackeys cannot bear, because they crash again and again against the dignity of the people.”
“You can continue with your sick obsession, Mr. Rubio,” he continued. “Keep barking, and we will remain here, standing, defeating your fantasies as always: with sovereignty, with resistance, and with our heads held high.”
(Últimas Noticias) by Aliarly Carrillo with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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