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<div class="gmail-domain-border"></div><h1 class="gmail-reader-title">ALBA-TCP Summit: Presidents of Cuba & Venezuela Repudiate US Imperialist Aggression in Latin America</h1>August 21, 2025</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><p><img width="395" height="266" src="https://orinocotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Diaz-Canel-ALBA.webp" alt="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." class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"></p>
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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.</p>
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president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, repudiated the United
States\u2019 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\u2019s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The special
summit addresses regional challenges generated by US interventionist
policies. In this regard, Díaz-Canel emphasized the importance of Latin
American unity.</p><p>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.</p><p>In
line with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone
of Peace, Díaz-Canel proposed concrete actions. \u201cWe 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,\u201d he announced.</p><p>The Cuban president also evoked the
region\u2019s historical struggle. \u201cThe blood of our heroes was not shed in
vain,\u201d he said, and declared that the peoples of the region will defend
their sovereignty.</p><p>Moreover, he highlighted the importance of not
losing sight of the genocide in Gaza committed by the Zionist entity.
\u201cWe have to keep demanding, in every forum, in every space, in every
expression of rejection of imperialism, that the genocide in Gaza
cease,\u201d he emphasized. \u201cThe 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.\u201d</p><p>In the same vein, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, <a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/maduro-cumbre-alba-tcp-america-latina-disputa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>
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.</p><p>\u201cWe see how the empire
kills Palestinian children who go looking for water and food,\u201d President
Maduro said. \u201cThey are killed with missiles, and it is broadcast on
social media. They bomb noble and unarmed people.\u201d The president went on
to condemn \u201cthe normalization of the use of force and crime in all its
expressions.\u201d</p><p>He also emphasized the unity of the peoples of the
region, noting that ALBA is strengthened by its political, human, and
ideological identity.</p><p>The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, <a href="https://x.com/SputnikMundo/status/1958281196355334531" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a strong warning about the consequences that a US military intervention in Venezuela could have.</p><p>The
US regime \u201cwill be mistaken if they think that invading Venezuela will
solve their problem,\u201d said President Petro during a council of
ministers. \u201cThey are dragging Venezuela into a Syria situation, only
with the problem that they are dragging Colombia into the same thing.\u201d</p><p>His
statement comes at a time of maximum tension between Washington and
Caracas, following US military and naval deployments near Venezuelan
coasts.</p><p>(<a href="https://www.telesurtv.net/cumbre-alba-tcp-diaz-canel-ofensiva-eeuu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telesur</a>) with Orinoco Tribune content</p><p>Translation: Orinoco Tribune</p><p>OT/SC/SL</p><br></div></div></div></div>
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