Cuba condemns US military presence in the Caribbean and denounces pretext anti -drug

Cuba’s government has repudiated military displacement from the United States in the Caribbean Sea, classifying it as an “aggressive demonstration of strength” that threatens sovereignty and self-determination of Latin American peoples.

The statement was issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday (28) and reaffirms that the action violates the commitment made by the 33 countries of the Latin American and Caribbean states (Celac) to maintain the region as a peace zone.

According to Havana, the justification presented by Washington, who tries to associate the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, with drug trafficking, is nothing but an absurd and unfounded pretext. ”

The statement accuses the White House of “irresponsibly discarding the evaluation of its own anti -drug agency (DEA), which in its report this year does not mention the Venezuelan government among the facilitators of drug trafficking.”

Havana states that the United States again resort to lies “to justify violence and withdrawal”, resuming the domination scheme anchored in the Monroe doctrine.

Cuba warned that “similar fallacies were used to perform relentless attacks on considerable human costs,” citing Iraq’s invasion in 2003 under the false allegation of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

Trump’s military displacement mobilizes ships and thousands of soldiers near the back of Venezuela in one of the largest troop movements in the region in decades. For the Cuban government, this military escalation has no relation to the fight against drug trafficking or organized crime, but with the intensification of an interventionist policy against sovereign governments of Latin America.

USA as the largest drug market in the world

The Cuban Chancellery also pointed out that the United States is “the largest drug market in the region and possibly in the world,” as the UN Global Drugs 2025 report.

The statement notes that it is in the US territory that “the largest networks of stimulating the consumption, distribution and washing of large profits, with relative impunity, without any serious and effective effort of the government to prevent.”

Cuba also accuses that “the huge sums of money from the US illegal market feed the creation and operation of drug trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean,” while the US arms industry, “with its uncontrolled privileges,” strengthens the lethal power of criminal organizations in the region.

In addition to the pretext anti -drug, Havana criticized the use of irregular migratory flows as a justification for military climbing.

“No one with a minimum of common sense or honesty can conceive that the scale of troops, military equipment, naval assets – including nuclear submarines – and firepower that the United States has decided to implement in that region is the appropriate way to combat organized crime, drug trafficking or irregular migratory flows,” the note.

The statement concludes with reference to the pronouncement of President Miguel Díaz-Canel in the 13th Extraordinary Summit of Alba-TCP, on August 20, when he called the region’s countries to “firmly denounce the new demonstrations of imperialist force.”