Venezuelan Foreign Ministry headquarters. Photo: file photo.
Foreign Minister Yván Gil thanked his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez for exposing Washington’s “deceptions,” while Caracas issued an official statement rejecting offensive measures carried out by the Trump administration.
The foreign minister of Venezuela, Yván Gil, thanked Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez for publicly criticizing the latest “deception” by the United States government.
Minister Gil asserted that Washington is seeking to justify aggression against the homeland of Bolívar in its desperate attempt to implement a “Monroe Doctrine 2.0″ and noted that Venezuela has made a clear decision to be free and sovereign.
https://t.me/YvanGilPinto/7126
Statements by Bruno Rodríguez on X
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez issued a public statement noting that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is resorting to “fallacies and lies” to attempt to portray Venezuela as a threat to the US due to drug trafficking.
“The ‘Cartel of the Suns’ is an invention of the US government—a fraudulent, arbitrary, and unilateral designation of a terrorist organization created… by its intelligence services,” Rodríguez added.
He said that these claims seek to provide cover for the disproportionate military deployment that the United States has maintained since August off the Venezuelan coastthat and the targeted assassinations of civilians on board small fishing boats, which he described as violations of international law. Rodríguez denounced these US maneuvers and attacks as a reactivation of the Monroe Doctrine and urged US allies not to become involved in matters Washington considers part of its hemispheric sphere of control.
https://x.com/BrunoRguezP/status/1993054723340222589
Context and Venezuela’s official rejection
The Venezuelan government, through an official statement released Monday, repudiated the new “ridiculous deception” by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who designated the nonexistent “Cartel of the Suns” as a terrorist organization.
Caracas described these actions as “arbitrary, illegal, and desperate,” stating that they confirm the complete failure of the sanctions imposed on Venezuela. The statement emphasized that nothing will stop Venezuela’s determination to defend its sovereignty and its right to self-determination.
Cuba Asks Not To Ignore the US Attacks on Venezuela at CELAC-EU Meeting
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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Cameron Bailie is an award-winning journalist, editor, and researcher published across The British Medical Journal, New Internationalist, the Orwell Foundation, the Centre for Homelessness Impact, and student papers, currently working on stories for Novara Media and The Mill. He's covered diverse political topics, from healthcare worker’s struggles in Bolivia, to lethal state crackdowns on Indigenous national strikes and USAID-related migrant crises in Ecuador, to the global Palestine movement and multiple institutional scandals at London universities which made national headlines. He won an award from the Student Publication Association in 2024 for ‘Best Comment Piece’ out of over 130 entries — the most contested prize — and was shortlisted as the ‘Best Newcomer’ student journalist from across Britain and Ireland in 2024. He is Editor-in-Chief of New Sociological Perspectives graduate journal and Commissioning Editor at The Student Intifada magazine, covering the global student-led Palestine solidarity movement. He completed a remote internship/mentorship scheme with The India Story Agency as a trainee journalist and research intern, and recently began news translation and proofreading work with The Orinoco Tribune. He spent the first half of 2025 living, working, and writing in Ecuador before travelling around South America and later China. He is currently working as a freelance journalist and is based back home in Manchester, UK. He has previously worked as an educator, mentor, and English teacher.
