The leading television network broadcast the statement from the Revolutionary Government, which strongly condemned the criminal violation of international law and the United Nations Charter.

ZBC highlighted Havana’s support for Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and its emphatic demand for the immediate release by US authorities of the president and his wife, Cilia Flores.

The statement describes the escalation in the sustained war campaign that the United States has been waging for years against that nation, intensified since September with the aggressive naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea under unfounded pretenses and accusations.

The text indicated that the Revolutionary Government accused Washington of seeking control of Venezuela’s natural resources in “a flagrant imperialist and fascist aggression aimed at domination, intended to revive US hegemonic ambitions over Our America, rooted in the Monroe Doctrine.”

Cuba also asserted that the objectives included unrestricted access to Venezuela’s natural resources and the intimidation of the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean.

These actions undermine regional peace commitments, recalling that the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean unanimously signed in January 2014 the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

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