The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) categorically condemns the act of vulgar piracy committed by the U.S. government in illegally assaulting and confiscating a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea. This act constitutes a very serious violation of international law and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

This act, which comes on top of the criminal seizure of Citgo, reveals a strategy of plunder aimed at appropriating Venezuelan energy resources, setting an extremely dangerous precedent for international legal and maritime stability. ALBA firmly rejects this imperial aggression and reaffirms its full support for the people and government of Venezuela.

The Alliance demands the immediate return of the vessel and the cessation of all actions to dispossess Venezuelan assets. It also urges multilateral, regional, and global organizations to urgently speak out against this open violation of international law.

The threat currently looming over Venezuela, as a result of the irrational U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, also represents a danger to the region and all of Latin America, which has been declared a Zone of Peace since 2014.

This was denounced by Cuba before the second session of the Standing Committee of the Forum for the Freedom of Nations, held in Sochi, Russia, in which a delegation from the Communist Party of Cuba participated, led by Emilio Lozada García, head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee.

In addition to reiterating the support of the largest of the Antilles for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the popular-military-police merger, Lozada García condemned the direct aggression that also constitutes the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, a genocidal policy expressly rejected in the final declaration of the Forum, which brought together representatives of more than 60 political parties from the Global South.

In another session, called BRICS Europe, he stressed that strengthening this mechanism is essential for achieving a new international order that is fair, democratic, and equitable.

CARACAS, Venezuela.—A total of 924 Human Rights organizations and movements from different parts of the world signed a communiqué in which they recognize “the democratic legitimacy and authority of the National Electoral Council and, consequently, the decision to award the victory of this process to President Nicolás Maduro.”
The document signed, among others, by representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Spain, United States, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Serbia, urges to respect the life, health and safety of all people, while condemning the acts of vandalism committed by supporters of the extreme right, defeated at the polls.
In this sense, the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, informed that there is no arrest warrant against María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, main promoters of the terrorist guarimbas of the last days.
“There is a general investigation that has had as a direct effect the arrest of people burning public headquarters with people inside,” and added that whoever makes a call to facts linked to acts of terrorism will be arrested.
In the exhortation for an atmosphere of peace to reign, “a sincere appeal to all parties to seek the truth, to exercise moderation, to avoid any kind of violence, to solve conflicts through dialogue, to take into account the true good of the population and not partisan interests,” Pope Francis made yesterday in favor of Venezuela, after praying the Sunday Angelus, in St. Peter’s Square.