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Havana, Jan 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today urged the international community to condemn the United States’ bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
In a massive show of support for the attacked South American nation, held in Havana, the Cuban head of state affirmed that the mobilization, articulation and coordination of the world is urgently needed against what he described as a brutal and treacherous attack against a sovereign country, as well as a vulgar kidnapping of its president.
He stated that the alleged fight against drug trafficking is a fallacy with which Washington tries to hide the true purpose of its actions: to seize Venezuela’s natural resources.
The objective is also to extinguish that bastion of resistance against imperialism and of national independence that is the Bolivarian revolution.
In his speech, Díaz-Canel expressed his conviction that the Venezuelan people will take to the streets to demand their rights and the return of the president, as they did previously with the revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez.
He stated that “the United States has no moral, legal, or any other kind of authority to forcibly remove the Venezuelan president from his country, but it is responsible to the world for Maduro’s physical integrity.”
He recalled that US federal agencies, analysts, and researchers offered opinions and information that dismiss the false narrative of narco-terrorism and refute these accusations against Venezuela and its president.
It is outrageous that Trump and his cronies don’t care about the truth; they are the ones who should be condemned by an international anti-fascist tribunal, the Cuban president pointed out.
He stressed that the attack against Venezuela is an assault against Latin America, declared a Zone of Peace since 2014, and a violation of International Law.
We do not accept the Monroe Doctrine, Bolívar’s land is sacred, and an attack on his sons is an attack against the worthy sons of this region, he pointed out.
These are not times for half measures, these are times for defining ones and taking a stand against fascism and imperial barbarism, Díaz-Canel said, and called on Latin Americans to close ranks against the neocolonialist and fascist practices of the United States.
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