[News] Presidents of Cuba & Venezuela Repudiate US Imperialist Aggression in Latin America

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ALBA-TCP Summit: Presidents of Cuba & Venezuela Repudiate US Imperialist
Aggression in Latin AmericaAugust 21, 2025
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[image: The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, speaks at the 13th
Special Summit of the Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP. Photo:
X/@ALBATCP.]

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, speaks at the 13th Special Summit
of the Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP. Photo: X/@ALBATCP.

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, repudiated the United
States’ imperialist aggression against Latin America and the Caribbean,
including direct attacks against the people of Venezuela and the
constitutional president of the country, at the 13th Special Summit of
Heads of State and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of
Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).

In his speech delivered at the summit on Wednesday, August 20, the Cuban
president highlighted that imperialism is employing an aggressive strategy
against the region, violating international law and the United Nations
Charter, as well as contravening regional and global resolutions against
coercion. The leader urged countries of the world to resist and condemn
these attacks.

President Díaz-Canel repudiated the violation of peace in Latin America and
the Caribbean. He argued that the United States is using the fight against
drug trafficking as a pretext in this regard, concealing its
interventionist intentions.

The special summit addresses regional challenges generated by US
interventionist policies. In this regard, Díaz-Canel emphasized the
importance of Latin American unity.

The Cuban leader criticized the Trump administration for its assault on
sovereign governments. He condemned the unproven accusations against
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that attempt to spuriously link the
president to drug trafficking. The Cuban president referred these actions
as a strategy employed by the United States in their ongoing attempts at
regime-change in the region.

In line with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone
of Peace, Díaz-Canel proposed concrete actions. “We consider it necessary
for the CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States] to express
its condemnation against this new colonization attempt. Therefore, we call
for a special meeting of CELAC foreign ministers,” he announced.

The Cuban president also evoked the region’s historical struggle. “The
blood of our heroes was not shed in vain,” he said, and declared that the
peoples of the region will defend their sovereignty.

Moreover, he highlighted the importance of not losing sight of the genocide
in Gaza committed by the Zionist entity. “We have to keep demanding, in
every forum, in every space, in every expression of rejection of
imperialism, that the genocide in Gaza cease,” he emphasized. “The threats
that now loom over Venezuela are based on the same philosophy of
dispossession that has turned a small strip of land into the hell of this
world. Enough with the Zionist impunity. Enough of complicity with the
empire. All crimes have perpetrators and accomplices that sustain the
crimes over time.”

In the same vein, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated
<https://www.telesurtv.net/maduro-cumbre-alba-tcp-america-latina-disputa/>
during the summit that historically, Latin America and the Caribbean has
been a territory in dispute between the people who live there and the
hegemonic projects of the US empire.

“We see how the empire kills Palestinian children who go looking for water
and food,” President Maduro said. “They are killed with missiles, and it is
broadcast on social media. They bomb noble and unarmed people.” The
president went on to condemn “the normalization of the use of force and
crime in all its expressions.”

He also emphasized the unity of the peoples of the region, noting that ALBA
is strengthened by its political, human, and ideological identity.

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, issued
<https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/1958281196355334531> a strong warning
about the consequences that a US military intervention in Venezuela could
have.

The US regime “will be mistaken if they think that invading Venezuela will
solve their problem,” said President Petro during a council of ministers.
“They are dragging Venezuela into a Syria situation, only with the problem
that they are dragging Colombia into the same thing.”

His statement comes at a time of maximum tension between Washington and
Caracas, following US military and naval deployments near Venezuelan coasts.

(Telesur
<https://www.telesurtv.net/cumbre-alba-tcp-diaz-canel-ofensiva-eeuu/>) with
Orinoco Tribune content

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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