The Articulating Council of Social Movements and Communes of the Simón Bolívar Institute (ISB) called on the people of Venezuela and the world to speak out en masse against the ongoing threat of military aggression against Cuba.
A statement delivered by representatives of the Council to authorities at the Cuban Embassy in Caracas expressed the strongest solidarity and “the warmest revolutionary embrace in these moments of maximum imperialist aggression and pressure.”
The statement sent to Prensa Latina indicated that the renewed threats of direct military aggression against “Cuba’s sister nation” by US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, are intended to sow terror and destabilization in the largest of the Antilles.
This bellicose rhetoric, allied with the Miami far right that has caused so much harm, is the “continuation of a criminal policy that has already lasted more than six decades of economic, financial, and commercial blockade,” he stated.
Now, he denounced, the escalation is qualitatively more dangerous, with “open talk of a military aggression that would provoke a bloodbath on the island and, we know, would be the trigger for a larger-scale escalation throughout the region, with unpredictable consequences for the peace of Our America.”
The text praised the “heroic and dignified people of Cuba” for their creative resistance to the cruel punishment imposed and the onslaught of this genocidal policy, now intensified by economic strangulation and energy asphyxiation, sanctioned by two executive orders.
The Social Movements and Communes of the ISB expressed that these measures should be considered by the world conscience as “a planned genocide, designed to cause the greatest possible harm to the civilian population, especially children, the elderly, women, and the most vulnerable sectors.”
They emphasized that depriving an entire people of medicine, food, fuel, and basic resources is a form of slow extermination, but no less cruel and condemnable for that.
In the statement, the Venezuelans expressed their “infinite gratitude” to Cuba for its historical example, its solidarity with Venezuela during the most difficult times, from Operation Miracle to the training of doctors and teachers, and for “being a beacon of resistance and humanism.”
In this regard, they asserted that it is their duty to repay this legacy with mobilizations in the streets, pronouncements before the international community, and a demand that the world stop this warmongering madness.
In their statement, they demanded the immediate end to the blockade and the removal of Cuba from the list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism, “an infamous and unjust designation”; and they condemned the energy and economic strangulation used as a method of genocidal pressure.
They also emphatically rejected the “false and unfounded accusations” against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and five other Cuban military officers for defending Cuba’s sovereignty in strict compliance with international treaties.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
