Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reaffirmed his support for the Venezuelan government's statement denouncing the attack on one of its oil tankers.

Havana, Cuba.- “This constitutes an act of piracy, a violation of International Law, and an escalation of aggression against our brother nation,” Díaz-Canel stated on his X profile.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero also condemned, via social media, the attack by US forces on a Venezuelan oil tanker. “We reaffirm our support for the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez,” he wrote.

For his part, the island’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, reiterated his rejection of the escalating aggression against the Bolivarian nation and clarified that this attack “contravenes the rules of free trade and freedom of navigation, in blatant violation of international law.”

The Bolivarian nation denounced “the blatant theft and act of international piracy” that the attack and seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea represents.

This new and serious step in the escalation of aggression comes after the announcement of the US National Security Strategy, which seeks to reaffirm, 200 years later, the abominable Monroe Doctrine.

The Bolivarian statement noted that once again “the true objective of the imperial offensive: the obsessive desire to seize its natural resources, has been exposed” and affirmed that this is “a demonstration of everything the empire is willing to do to impose its agenda and interests against our peoples.” (PL)