“This is not about fighting narco-terrorism, as they falsely claim, but about destroying a project of integration and resistance that was born with Commander Hugo Chávez,” he asserted.

The Cuban president categorically rejected the Monroe Doctrine and any extraterritorial claims over Latin American territory, while demanding that the United States provide immediate proof of life for Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Diaz-Canel also compared the action to the crimes against humanity committed by Israeli Zionism in Gaza, emphasizing its illegal, immoral, and international law violations.

“This is not just an attack against Venezuela; it is a threat against all of humanity,” he warned, and called on the international community to mobilize unequivocally against the advance of modern fascism, disguised as foreign policy.

Cuba, he reaffirmed, is prepared to defend, “with its own blood if necessary, the independence of Our America.”