Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced on Friday that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is fabricating falsehoods before his allies in the Group of Seven (G7) to attribute alleged drug trafficking threats to Venezuela.
“These lies,” the foreign minister emphasized on the X network, “are the only recourse used to justify a disproportionate and extraordinary military deployment, mobilized under false pretenses, with which he has carried out extrajudicial executions in international waters, in grave violation of International Law.”
He also emphasized that the US official is invoking the two-hundred-year-old and discredited Monroe Doctrine to demand that his “allies” not interfere in what he defines as “his hemisphere.”
Since August, the United States has deployed a significant military force off the coast of Venezuela, including warships, submarines, fighter jets, and troops, which it justifies as part of the fight against drug trafficking.
During this period, US forces carried out several bombings against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, resulting in more than 70 deaths.
At the same time, Washington has accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of leading a drug trafficking organization, without presenting any evidence to support this claim.
In response to the accusations, Venezuelan authorities have issued a unified statement rejecting the framework of bilateral confrontation and denouncing it as a campaign of multilateral aggression.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
