Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, criticized the designation of Venezuela as a “foreign terrorist organization” by the government of Donald Trump, describing it as an arbitrary, fraudulent and politically motivated act.
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This reaction comes after Trump’s announcement about the blockade of oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela and his demand for the return of assets, including oil and land.
Trump said that “Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest navy ever assembled in South American history” and accused the “illegitimate Maduro regime” of financing “narcoterrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping” with resources from oil fields.
The #US government designation of the legitimate government of #Venezuela as a foreign terrorist organization is a new arbitrary, fraudulent, unilateral and politically motivated act. It shows, once again, the lack of credibility of these decisions and the manipulation of… pic.twitter.com/Af1tFAWjnW
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) December 20, 2025
In response, Rodríguez Parrilla questioned the moral legitimacy of the United States to issue such accusations.
“What moral does the US government have for these designations, when it protects and finances terrorist organizations on its territory, refuses to cooperate with neighbouring countries such as Cuba in matters of terrorism and speaks openly about covert actions and CIA sabotages against Venezuelan infrastructures?”
The Cuban Foreign Minister stated that these actions only seek to internationally isolate the Bolivarian Revolution, increase pressure on Caracas, and “escalate an aggression with unpredictable consequences for the peace, security, and stability of Latin America and the Caribbean.”
“All our solidarity and support to the Venezuelan people and government in the face of this infamous barbarity,” Rodríguez Parrilla concluded.
Cuba’s firm stance against Trump’s declarations once again places the Island against U.S. interference in Latin American affairs and the United States’ disrespect for the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, signed in Havana in 2014.
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