The Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC) described the US attacks against Venezuela carried out in the early hours of this morning as “imperial oil thirst.”
“Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world are now witnessing, at the highest price, the validity of previous denunciations by various governments and peoples regarding the voracity of the North, which is more turbulent and brutal today than in Martí’s time,” a statement from the organization reads.
“The United States not only directly attacked areas of Caracas, Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, but, leveraging its status as an international outlaw, kidnapped the legitimate president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, who have now joined the endless list of ‘disappeared’ at the behest of imperial authorities,” UPEC stated.
They also stated that these criminal acts must end the long-held dream of the United Nations (UN) and its officials, who are also targets of the Pentagon’s continued disrespect.
“The plurinational veil of a Zone of Peace that Latin America and the Caribbean are trying to weave over diversity and dissension has been torn away, but perhaps the best argument for a united condemnation today is the realization that the blow came from outside, from ‘The Other America,’ as Martí would say, and not from Ours,” the text points out.
“Donald Trump, who shamelessly changed the name of his Department of Defense to the Department of War, is now trying, with the stroke of a pen, to change the name of our region,” the UPEC states.
“This act demonstrates that, indeed, the US president deserves the Nobel Prize for… war.” In any case, the Prize went to one of his admirers: María Corina Machado, who at this hour must be celebrating, with that strange zeal of the new “pacifists,” the treacherous and nightly wound inflicted on several compatriots. “Probably, a little sisterly blood splattered the latest Oslo ruling,” the statement added.
The UPEC condemned the aggression against an independent country and the kidnapping of its constitutional president, calling on the peoples and governments of the world to repudiate it without hesitation, although it affirmed that “the first to distance itself from this action is American society, the first stage for the rehearsal of its president’s dictatorial pastimes.”
Cuba and its journalists will stand with Nicolás Maduro and the Bolivarian people. “The oil thirst of an empire cannot prevail over the yearning for peace of a people and a region! Latin America and the Caribbean do not want to be anyone’s backyard, but their own garden!” the statement concluded.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
