The Revolutionary Government condemns in the strongest terms the military aggression of the United States against Venezuela, while categorically reiterating Cuba’s absolute support and solidarity with the sister Bolivarian Republic and its government. It supports the statement by Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and endorses her demand that the US government provide proof of life for constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores, as well as the determination of the Bolivarian and Chavista government and its people to reject the aggression and defend their independence and sovereignty.

The cowardly U.S. aggression is a criminal act that violates international law and the UN Charter. It constitutes a dangerous escalation of the war campaign waged for years by the United States against that sister nation, which has intensified since September 2025 with the aggressive naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea, under false pretexts and unfounded accusations without any evidence.

Cuba emphatically demands the immediate release by the U.S  authorities of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife Cilia Flores.

This is a blatant imperialist and fascist aggression with objectives of domination, which seeks to revive the United States’ hegemonic ambitions over Our America, anchored in the Monroe Doctrine, and the goal of having unrestricted access to and control over the natural resources of Venezuela and the region. It also seeks to intimidate and subjugate the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The consequences of this irresponsible act remain to be seen. The U.S. government, President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, together with the aggressive elements and enemies of Latin America and the Caribbean who have acquired so much political influence in that country, bear full responsibility for the deaths and the human and material damage already caused, and which may result from the aggression.

The governments of the region, representing their peoples, unanimously signed the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace in January 2014 in Havana, an aspiration that is now under attack by the United States.

The international community cannot allow an aggression of this nature and gravity against a UN Member State to go unpunished, nor can it allow the legitimate and sitting president of a sovereign country to be kidnapped in a military operation without facing consequences. Venezuela is a peaceful country that has not attacked the United States or any other nation.

For that sister nation and its people, we are willing to give, as we did for Cuba, even our own blood.

The Revolutionary Government calls on all governments, parliaments, social movements, and peoples of the world to condemn the United States’ military aggression against Venezuela and to confront this act of state terrorism that threatens international peace and security and seeks to impose a new doctrine of domination by U.S. imperialism in the world and in Latin America and the Caribbean in particular.

All nations in the region must be alert, for the threat hangs over them all. In Cuba, our determination to fight is firm and unyielding. There is only one decision: Homeland or Death.

We shall overcome!

Havana, January 3, 2026