It qualifies the act of piracy committed on December 10, when US military forces attacked an oil tanker while sailing in international waters in the Caribbean Sea, as maritime terrorism and “a serious violation of international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Right of the Sea and the Convention for the Repression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation.

The United States government is responsible for these crimes, which harm the international community as a whole”. This action is part of the US escalation to prevent Venezuela’s legitimate right to freely use and trade its natural resources with other nations, including supplies of hydrocarbons to Cuba.

“During the first term of Donald Trump, measures were taken to hinder free trade in Venezuelan oil resources and ships transporting fuel to our country were prosecuted.

This situation persists and is now aggravated by the use of military force to try to impose its rule on Our America,” the statement said.

These actions have a negative impact on Cuba and intensify the policy of maximum pressure and economic suffocation of the United States, with a direct impact on the national energy system and consequently on the daily life of the population of the island.

This obvious act of applying the Trump corollary of the Monroe Doctrine infringes the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and demands universal condemnation.

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