July 11, 2025 — teleSUR
Bolivarian authorities describe the new coercive measures as “acts of financial piracy disguised as false morality,” referring to the sanctions against senior Cuban government officials, including President Díaz-Canel.
The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expressed, through an official statement, “its most energetic and categorical rejection of the infamous statement by the Secretary of State of the United States (USA), Marco Rubio , who in a new display of hatred, unhealthy obsession and imperial arrogance, seeks to sanction the legitimate president of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez ,” in reference to the note released this afternoon by the US State Department.
According to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, this act constitutes an affront to international law , as a U.S. government official has assumed the power to unilaterally sanction the head of state of a sovereign nation .
Bolivarian authorities denounce that this measure goes beyond a violation of the fundamental principles of coexistence among nations . “The attempt to punish President Díaz-Canel is an expression of profound contempt for the free peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean ,” the text states.
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The Venezuelan government describes the US Secretary of State as “a spokesperson for resentment and failure .” It also denounces Marco Rubio as blinded by hatred and self-conscious about Cuba’s invincible dignity. These circumstances have led him to build “his political career on the desire to destroy revolutions that he neither understands nor will ever be able to subdue. His sick determination against Cuba is doomed to the same fate as all imperialist attempts against our America: absolute failure,” the statement reads.
The Bolivarian authorities declare that the imposition of new coercive measures is nothing more than “acts of financial piracy disguised as false morality .” They also highlight the Cuban people’s resistance with heroic dignity and accuse the U.S. government of being directly responsible for the suffering caused by “the criminal and illegal blockade, cowardly intensified by figures like Rubio.”
In this context, “Venezuela reiterates its absolute and unrestricted support for the people, the Government of the Republic of Cuba, and its President, and denounces before the international community the policy of
systematic aggression promoted by the current U.S. Secretary of State, whose sole agenda is to prolong the Monroe Doctrine under new guises,” the statement concludes.
