Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, August 28 - Radio Cadena Agramonte reproduces the statement issued this Thursday, August 28, 2025, by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean Sea.
The Cuban government firmly rejects the current deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean. This dangerous act represents a serious threat and an aggressive show of force that violates the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. It also ignores the commitment of the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States by declaring the region a Zone of Peace.
The U.S. allegation that associates the legitimate government of Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro Moros with criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking is an absurd pretext lacking any basis. Washington irresponsibly ignores its own Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) assessment, which, in its report this year, does not mention the Venezuelan government among those responsible for or facilitating drug trafficking operations that threaten U.S. territory.
The U.S. government resorts to lies to justify violence and dispossession. They use these in the renewed deployment of a domination scheme rooted in the Monroe Doctrine, which is key to their interventionism in the Americas. Similar fallacies have led to ruthless aggressions with considerable and lasting human costs. A recent example was the farce regarding the supposed presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which served as a pretext to attack and invade a sovereign country, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its citizens and the forced displacement of a similar number.
The United States is the largest drug market in the region and perhaps in the world, according to the 2025 Global Drugs Report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This is a well-known fact, and the international community has a duty to denounce it. It is there that the largest networks of consumer stimulation, distribution guarantees, trafficking facilitation, and the accumulation of vast profits operate, as well as those that launder the resulting money within the country’s own economy with relative impunity, without any serious and effective effort by the government to stop it.
The enormous sums of money flowing from the U.S. illegal market encourage the creation and operation of drug trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean. The powerful arms industry in that country and its unchecked privileges for commercialization fuel the lethal power of criminal organizations in the region. The lack of attention and action against the root causes of the phenomenon within the United States will only exacerbate the regional impact of this scourge.
Cuba reiterates its firm commitment to the honest and effective fight against illicit drug trafficking, the defense of national sovereignty, and the promotion of peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
It also firmly condemns the use of irregular migration flows as a pretext to turn the waters of the Caribbean Sea into a war zone. No one with a modicum of common sense and honesty can conceive that the scale of personnel, military equipment, naval assets, including nuclear submarines, and firepower that the United States proposes to deploy in this peaceful part of the world is the right way to combat organized crime, illicit drug trafficking, or irregular migration flows, nor that this deployment genuinely aims to achieve the declared objectives.
Cuba reiterates the call made by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at the XIII Extraordinary Summit of ALBA-TCP on August 20, to firmly denounce the new displays of imperialist strength.
Havana, August 28, 2025. (Text and photo: Taken from Cubaminrex)
