The foreign minister stated in a message on the social network X that Rubio’s statements are intended to justify military actions in the Caribbean region.

Rodriguez denounced that Washington “is trying to repeat the old and well-known U.S. strategy of creating false pretexts” to intervene in regional affairs.

The Cuban government has strongly expressed its rejection of the U.S. naval and air deployment in the Caribbean Sea, calling it a dangerous act that threatens regional peace.

Recently, the president of the Caribbean nation, Miguel Diaz-Canel, emphasized that Latin America and the Caribbean must remain a nuclear-weapon-free zone of peace, and urged the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to defend these achievements in the face of the US military deployment in the region.

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