Havana, January 3, 2026.- 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 address of the Executive Vice President, Comrade Delcy Rodríguez, and backs her demand that the United States government provide proof of life of the constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Comrade 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 US aggression is a criminal act, violating International Law and the UN Charter. It constitutes a dangerous escalation of the war campaign sustained for years by the United States against that sister nation, which intensified from September 2025 with the aggressive naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea, under mendacious pretexts and unfounded accusations without any evidence.
Cuba emphatically demands the immediate release by US authorities of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Comrade Cilia Flores.
This is a barefaced imperialist and fascist aggression with aims of domination, which seeks to revive US hegemonic ambitions over Our America, anchored in the Monroe Doctrine, and the goal of having unrestricted access to and control over Venezuela's and the region's natural wealth. 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 United States government, President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, along with the aggressive elements and enemies of Latin America and the Caribbean who have acquired so much political influence in that country, bear absolute responsibility for the deaths, and the human and material damage already caused, and that may result from the aggression.
The governments of the region, representing their peoples, unanimously subscribed in January 2014, in Havana, to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, 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 remain unpunished, that the legitimate and incumbent president of a sovereign country be kidnapped in a military operation without facing consequences. Venezuela is a peaceful country that has not attacked the United States, nor any nation.
For that sister nation and its people, we are willing to give, as for Cuba, even our own blood.
The Revolutionary Government calls on all governments, parliaments, social movements and peoples of the world to condemn the military aggression of the United States 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 US imperialism in the world and in Latin America and the Caribbean in particular.
All nations of the region must be alert, for the threat hangs over all. In Cuba, our determination to fight is firm and unwavering. The decision is one: Homeland or Death.
We shall overcome!
(Cubaminrex)