The head of the Cuban diplomatic mission went to the Simon Bolivar Cultural Center in Bogota, where the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic is collecting expressions of solidarity and support.

On behalf of the Government and people of Cuba, De Cespedes conveyed his deepest condolences to the sister nation.

“Cuban and Venezuelan blood was shed by imperialist shrapnel will continue to point the way to victory and a united, sovereign, and independent America, as our founding fathers envisioned, from Bolivar and Marti to Chavez and Fidel,” he wrote.

In his statement, the ambassador also strongly condemned the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, “whom we will accompany until their return to the Homeland of the Liberator,” he emphasized. According to Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, the United States’ aggression against that country caused at least 100 deaths.

In addition to the civilian victims, there were 42 Venezuelan military personnel killed, as well as 32 Cuban combatants who were carrying out missions representing the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, at the request of their counterparts in the Bolivarian nation.

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