“From Casa de las Americas, we support the Bolivarian Government’s denunciation and join in its rejection of Mr. Trump’s grotesque threat,” Abel Prieto, president of the prestigious cultural institution, wrote on his X profile.

On his behalf, the Cuban intellectual reiterated Cuba’s solidarity “with the brave Venezuelan people and their legitimate President Nicolas Maduro. They shall not pass!!!,” he concluded.

The denunciation responds to the announcement made by US President Donald Trump on Truth Social, in which he declared Venezuela a foreign terrorist organization and ordered a total and complete blockade of all oil tankers entering or leaving the country.

The measure, adopted six days after the seizure of a tanker off the Venezuelan coast, significantly increases Washington’s pressure on the Bolivarian government.

Trump, in his message, accused Caracas of drug trafficking, terrorism, and the illegitimate appropriation of US assets, and asserted that Venezuela is “surrounded by the largest Navy ever assembled in the history of South America.”

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