United States

MINREX Statement

On December 10, 2025, US military forces assaulted an oil tanker while it was sailing in international waters in the Caribbean Sea, near the coast of Venezuela.

This act of piracy and maritime terrorism constitutes a serious violation of international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation. The United States government is responsible for committing these crimes, which harm the international community as a whole.

By Arnold August, Canadian journalist and author of the book Fidel Castro: La Vision de un Canadiense

The allegations by the U.S. that Cuba is militarily involved in the Ukraine-Russia conflict are entirely false. There is no factual proof at all.  On the contrary, the Cuban MINREX statement on this issue indicates that the Cuban government had already taken steps to prevent any Cuban nationals in Cuba who had allowed themselves to become involved, even in their own name, as a personal choice, from interfering in the conflict.

During the night of September 24, 2023, a terrorist attack occurred against the premises of the Cuban Embassy in the United States, when an individual threw two Molotov cocktails from the sidewalk over the perimeter fence of the facility, which hit the front wall of that diplomatic mission. There were no injuries to the personnel who were present at that headquarters. 

Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla will meet today with the diplomatic corps and the national and foreign media to present the country’s report on the impact of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade, particularly between August 2021 and February 2022.