Cuba has accused the US of pushing in direction of the violent removing of Venezuela’s leadership, warning that the rising deployment of US army forces within the Caribbean represents an “exaggerated and aggressive” menace to regional stability.
“We enchantment to the individuals of the US to cease this insanity”, Cuba’s Overseas Minister Bruno Rodriguez stated in a press release on Tuesday.
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He cautioned that “the US authorities might trigger an incalculable variety of deaths and create a situation of violence and instability within the hemisphere that might be unimaginable”, including that such actions would breach worldwide regulation in addition to the United Nations constitution.
#Cuba denuncia la precise escalada militar en el Caribe en los términos más enérgicos posibles y reafirma su pleno apoyo a #Venezuela.
Si estalla la guerra, ¿dónde estará el Secretario de Estado? ¿Realmente alguien piensa que acompañará a los jóvenes soldados a arriesgar sus… pic.twitter.com/5O3RrbPsiI
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) November 25, 2025
The condemnation comes as US President Donald Trump weighs further actions in opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with the White Home refusing to rule out extra forceful measures.
The Trump administration has repeatedly accused Maduro of main a marketing campaign to smuggle medicine into the US, though it has not offered any proof to again its declare.
Over the previous two months, the US has bombed 21 boats within the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, killing at the least 83 individuals. It claimed that these boats have been concerned in drug trafficking, however authorities have launched no proof exhibiting narcotics have been current, and authorized students argue that even when medicine have been discovered, the assaults would doubtless nonetheless violate worldwide regulation.
The US army footprint within the area is now the biggest it has been in a long time, with roughly 15,000 US personnel stationed throughout the Caribbean.
Trump has repeatedly insisted he’s not in search of to topple the Venezuelan authorities.
Nonetheless, latest developments have heightened issues about potential US intervention. On Saturday, the Reuters information company reported – citing 4 US officers – that Washington was making ready to enter a brand new section of operations associated to Venezuela, and two of these officers stated the choices included trying to overthrow Maduro.
Final month, Trump authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela. In the meantime, the US has additionally maintained a $50m reward for Maduro, an incentive that has expanded considerably since Trump’s first time period.
Maduro, who has ruled since 2013, maintains that Washington goals to take away him from energy and says each the Venezuelan army and folks would resist such efforts.
Tensions rose additional this week when the US formally added the Cartel de los Soles – or Cartel of the Suns – to its record of international terrorist organisations (FTO). Cartel de los Soles is a time period that Venezuelans use to explain high-level corruption by the nation’s senior officers and leaders, however it isn’t an organised cartel, per se.
Trump informed advisers on Monday that he intends to talk straight with Maduro at a date but to be introduced.
A Caribbean tour
Amid the hovering tensions, prime US army officers started a tour of the Caribbean this week, assembly with leaders within the area.
Dan Caine, the highest US army officer, travelled to Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. In response to a abstract launched by Caine’s workplace, the 2 reaffirmed bilateral ties and “exchanged views on challenges affecting the Caribbean area, together with the destabilizing results of illicit narcotics … and transnational prison group actions”.
Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, additionally assured Persad-Bissessar of Washington’s dedication to “handle shared threats and deepen collaboration throughout the Caribbean”, the Pentagon stated.
He started his tour of the Caribbean on Monday with a stop in Puerto Rico, the place he met US troops.
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to proceed the diplomatic push on Wednesday in Santo Domingo, the place he’ll meet Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader and Defence Minister Carlos Antonio Fernandez Onofre. The Pentagon stated the go to is meant “to strengthen protection relationships and reaffirm America’s dedication to defend the homeland”.
Most Caribbean leaders have responded cautiously to the US strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats, calling for restraint and dialogue. Persad-Bissessar, nevertheless, has brazenly supported the assaults.
In early September, she stated she had no sympathy for drug traffickers, declaring that “the US army ought to kill all of them violently”. Her feedback prompted criticism from regional figures and a few home opposition politicians.
Amery Browne, Trinidad’s former international minister, informed the native newspaper Newsday that the prime minister’s place is “reckless” and has distanced Trinidad and Tobago from CARICOM, the regional commerce bloc.
