Cuban and Venezuelan ambassadors, diplomatic officials, and collaborators from the Health Brigades, UNECA, and ANTEX serving in this African nation reaffirmed their solidarity with Venezuela at an event organized by the Cuban Diplomatic Mission in Windhoek.
"The military threat looming over Bolívar's homeland is proof of imperialism's dismay at the resistance of a people who have demonstrated admirable tenacity in defense of a sovereign nation," said Cuban Ambassador Sergio Vigoa de la Uz.
The diplomat referred to the increasingly savage and inhumane attitude of the US government, which adds this exercise of force in Caribbean waters to other interventionist and destabilizing patterns of sanctions, suffocating blockades, and its major instrument of disinformation, with a narrative that disseminates abundant lies or fake news and constitutes a vehicle for cognitive warfare on social media.
The solidarity event marks the closing of a program organized in all regions of Namibia where Cuba is collaborating, where Cubans have signed the Statement of the Revolutionary Government denouncing the escalating actions of the US administration.
"Cuba is aware of the aggressions and coercive measures that are invisible missiles impacting the daily lives of the people. That is why we firmly raise our voices and denounce the attempts at military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is a warning against this offensive that seeks to impose the law of the mightiest on a nation that has decided to walk with dignity and social justice," said the diplomat.
Vigoa de la Uz alluded to the figure of the Venezuelan president, who has been another target of attack. "Nicolás Maduro represents collective leadership in a struggle shared by all good Venezuelans. In the midst of the siege, the Venezuelan president has responded with Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy, which, together with the courage and determination of his people, will be the key to overcoming this new attack on their sovereignty," the ambassador stated.
In his speech, the representative of Cuban diplomacy evoked José Martí: "Give me Venezuela in which to serve her. She has a son in me," Martí wrote in a farewell letter to his friend Fausto Teodoro Aldrey, in July 1881, the day before leaving Venezuela. And we will continue to serve and defend that Bolivarian Venezuela, so close and beloved, cradle of independence, land that seduced the Apostle with its noble and warrior people, no matter how many perverse smear campaigns they unleash, no matter how much political hatred they seek to generate, no matter how many resources they dedicate, no matter how many threats they launch.
Magaly Henríquez, Venezuelan ambassador in Namibia, conveyed the gratitude of the Venezuelan people and President Nicolás Maduro Moros. "Venezuela feels accompanied by the moral strength and active solidarity of peoples who have known how to resist and overcome," she said.
The diplomat expressed that this gesture by the Cubans, born of revolutionary commitment and the historical brotherhood of our peoples, fills them with hope and reaffirms that solidarity is not an isolated act, but a shared conviction.
"Cuba and Venezuela have walked together through the most difficult times, and this meeting, here in Namibia, reaffirms that solidarity knows no borders. Each signature affixed today is an expression of dignity, conscience, and a common struggle against the injustices that seek to subdue free peoples," she stated.
