ALBA-TCP Extraordinary Summit Counters U.S. Military Interference in Caribbean
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro hosts the ALBA-TCP virtual summit, August 20, 2025.
On Wednesday August 20, the XIII Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America—People's Trade Agreement) began in virtual format, moderated from Venezuela. The summit was convoked to express solidarity and support for Venezuela in the face of threats from U.S. imperialism and its positioning of war ships, bombers, and an attack submarine in the Caribbean Sea.
The ALBA-TCP declaration condemned the Trump administration actions "to delegitimize sovereign governments and pave the way for foreign intervention."
"These practices not only constitute a direct attack on Venezuela's independence, but also a threat to the stability and self-determination of all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean," the alliance said. Countries of the region have declared Latin America and the Caribbean a Zone of Peace.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, representing Cuba, spoke at the meeting. "We are proud that ALBA-TCP is at the forefront in denouncing the continued imperialist assaults and projecting itself as a strong voice in the face of U.S. designs. This Alliance is our first shield against the dangers that threaten peace and security in the region. [...] We are living in times of enormous challenges and exceptional risks."
He opposed U.S. imperialism, saying that "the deployment
of its hegemonist and aggressive offensive shows that it has no
intention of stopping before the limits imposed by International
Law, the United Nations Charter, and decades of regional and
universal resolutions and declarations against coercion,
threats, interference in the internal affairs of other States,
and intervention."
The Cuban President reflected that "the announced prerogative that the government of the United States intends to grant to its law enforcement agencies to act against criminal organizations within the borders of other States constitutes an unacceptable threat of aggression, a violation of the sovereignty of nations in the region and an additional alteration of the regime of peace and cooperation that Latin American and Caribbean countries have worked so hard to guarantee. [...]
"Cuba firmly denounces this new demonstration of imperial force and calls on ALBA-TCP and from here to all the peoples of the world, to condemn this irrational onslaught by the Trump Administration. [...]
"We denounce with equal firmness the encouragement and financing of terrorist plans against Venezuela, as well as the mendacious accusation launched by the U.S. government against President Nicolás Maduro, which seeks to associate him, without any basis or evidence, to criminal organizations linked to illicit drug trafficking. This is, once again, the kind of maneuvers to which imperialism resorts when it harbors aggressive intentions against sovereign states, when it is unable to stifle the spirit of resistance of the peoples and needs a fraudulent pretext to justify its actions. [...]
"We resolutely support the Special Communiqué adopted by the Group of Friends in Defense of the United Nations Charter, through which the member countries expressed their concern over the declared intentions of the United States government to initiate military actions in Latin America and the Caribbean," said Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. He highlighted: "In line with the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, we consider it necessary to mobilize the opposition of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) against this new colonizing attempt, for which reason we support the holding of an extraordinary meeting of CELAC Foreign Ministers."
Díaz Canel also spoke out in defence of Palestine and the Palestinian people. The Cuban President commented that, from this accumulated knowledge and feelings bequeathed to us by our ancestors, we cannot fail to demand, in every tribune, in every space, in every expression of rejection to imperialism, that the genocide in Gaza cease. "The threats," he said, "that today hover 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 of Zionist impunity! Enough of imperial complicity!" he emphasized.
"All crimes have perpetrators and accomplices in order to be sustained in time. Israeli Zionism and Yankee imperialism exchange roles in their criminal exercises. Cuba knows it well, because in its genocidal blockade, the empire has always counted on the invariable support of the Israeli genocide."
China reacted to the deployment of the U.S. military, including off the Venezuelan coast. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said China opposes "the use of force or threats in international relations and foreign powers interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela under any pretext." Mao Ning urged the U.S. administration to "do more to contribute to peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean."
For the full link to the speech by Cuban President Díaz-Canel, click here.
(With files from Global Times, Granma. Photos: Venezuelan Presidency, Cuban Presidency.)
This article was published in
Volume 55 Number 7 - July-August 2025
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