"Cuba condemns and urgently demands a response from the international community against the criminal attack by the United States on Venezuela."

This was announced on social media by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, immediately after learning of the armed attack on several cities in Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday morning.

In a statement, the Bolivarian government described the assault on military and civilian installations in the states of Caracas, Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira as "a very serious military aggression."

It was reported that defense plans were activated and a "state of external commotion" was declared before the international community.

The Cuban head of state stressed that "our Zone of Peace is being brutally assaulted. State terrorism against the brave Venezuelan people and against Our America."

Saturday's aggression is the result of an escalation that began several weeks ago with the military deployment of U.S. troops in the Caribbean, which included a naval and air blockade against the South American country.

Members of the Party's Political Bureau, Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, and Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister, joined in condemning, in the strongest terms, the infamous U.S. military aggression against Venezuela.

In X, Marrero Cruz asserted that the attacks against Caracas and other locations require the urgent mobilization of the international community to defend Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

For his part, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, stressed that these "warlike actions against Caracas and other locations in the country are cowardly acts against a nation that has not attacked the United States or any other country." (Granma)