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 pointed out 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 Caribbean nation..

  Now, they 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 trigger a larger escalation throughout the region, with unpredictable consequences for the peace of Our America.

  The Social Movements and Communes of the ISB stated that depriving an entire population of medicine, food, fuel, and basic resources is a form of slow extermination, but no less cruel and condemnable for that.

  In the statement, Venezuelans expressed their “endless 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.”

  They also emphatically rejected the “fallacious and unfounded accusations” against Army General Raul Castro Ruz and five other Cuban military officers for defending Cuba’s sovereignty in strict compliance with international treaties. jdt/mar/jcd