“This constitutes an act of piracy, a violation of International Law, and an escalation of aggression against our brother nation,” Diaz-Canel stated on his X profile.

The Bolivarian nation denounced “the blatant theft and act of international piracy” that the attack and seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea represents.

This new and serious step in the escalation of aggression comes after the announcement of the US National Security Strategy, which seeks to reaffirm, 200 years later, the abominable Monroe Doctrine.

The Bolivarian statement noted that once again “the true objective of the imperial offensive: the obsessive desire to seize its natural resources, has been exposed” and affirmed that this is “a demonstration of everything the empire is willing to do to impose its agenda and interests against our peoples.”

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