Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, August 29 - The Cuban government strongly rejects the current deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean Sea. This dangerous act poses a serious threat and is an aggressive demonstration of power that undermines the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, it disregards the commitment of the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to proclaim the region as a Zone of Peace.
The U.S. allegation linking the legitimate government of Venezuela and its president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, to criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking is an unfounded and absurd pretext. Washington irresponsibly dismisses the assessment from its own Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which in its report this year does not mention the Venezuelan government as either the perpetrator or facilitator of drug trafficking operations threatening U.S. territory.
The U.S. government resorts to lies to justify violence and dispossession. It employs these lies in the renewed display of a dominance scheme rooted in the Monroe Doctrine, which is key to its interventionism in the Americas. Similar fallacies have led to ruthless aggressions with considerable and prolonged human costs. A recent example is the farce surrounding the alleged presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which served as a pretext to attack and invade a sovereign country, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its citizens and the forced displacement of a similar number.
According to the 2025 Global Drug Report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United States is the largest drug market in the region and possibly in the world. This is a well-known fact, and the international community has a duty to denounce it. Here lies the largest networks that stimulate consumption, guarantee distribution, facilitate trafficking, collect and hoard significant sums of profit, and launder the resulting money within the country’s economy with relative impunity, without any serious and effective effort from the government to prevent it.
The vast sums of money from the U.S. illegal drug market incite the creation and operation of drug trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean. The country’s powerful arms industry and its unchecked privileges for marketing fuel the lethal power of criminal organizations in the region. The lack of attention and action against the root causes of this phenomenon within the United States will only exacerbate the regional impact of this scourge.
Cuba reaffirms 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 equally denounces 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 minimum of common sense and integrity can conceive of how the scale of military personnel, military technology, naval assets—including nuclear submarines—and firepower that the United States intends to deploy in this peaceful region can be an appropriate means of combating organized crime, drug trafficking, or irregular migration flows, nor that this deployment truly pursues 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 power. (Text and Photo: Cubadebate)
