Cuba Warns of 'Real and Imminent' Threats to Peace And Urges International Action Against U.S. Escalation in Venezuela

Cuba warned that U.S. military operations in the Caribbean pose "real and imminent dangers" to regional peace and called on the international community to mobilize to prevent what it described as a potential military intervention against Venezuela.

In an official statement, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused Washington of seeking to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro and install "a servile government that would hand over Venezuelan oil, other natural resources, and even its sovereignty."

The ministry said the United States has intensified its campaign by destroying boats allegedly linked to drug trafficking "of unknown composition and destination," resulting in the deaths of their crews.

"The pretexts used for this extraordinary and irrational military deployment by the United States are unfounded and rest on falsehoods," the statement said. "They cannot be accepted legally or morally as the basis for perpetrating military aggression against a sovereign state. The dangers for peace, security, and stability in Our America are real and imminent."

Cuba claimed that Washington and "anti-Cuban lawmakers from Florida" are irresponsibly pushing the use of military power "as if it were a neighborhood police raid." It warned that the situation has worsened with reports that U.S. forces may expand operations to target land-based sites in Venezuela.

Havana also cited Venezuelan intelligence claims that a far-right group had plotted to detonate explosives at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, allegedly to justify U.S. retaliation. "It would not be the first time," the Cuban statement said, "that the United States resorts to such maneuvers to justify aggression."

The ministry reaffirmed Cuba's "firm and unbreakable support" for the Venezuelan government and its armed forces, reiterating that Latin America and the Caribbean "must remain a zone of peace."

The warning follows weeks of Cuban government-led mobilization in support of Venezuela, as reported by France 24 last week. Since late September, Cubans have been signing a national petition titled "Urgent: Prevent Military Aggression Against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."

The campaign, backed by President Miguel Díaz-Canel and senior Communist Party officials, calls for international opposition to what Havana sees as a prelude to U.S. military action.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez raised the issue at the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, denouncing "threats of aggression against Venezuela" and reaffirming Cuba's "total support for the Bolivarian and Chavista government and the popular-military union led by the legitimate President Nicolás Maduro."

Cuba's position underscores the deep strategic alliance between Havana and Caracas, forged under Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez and maintained through energy, health, and education cooperation. As U.S. deployments in the Caribbean continue, Cuba insists that the region's 2014 declaration as a "Zone of Peace" must be upheld to avoid what it calls a "catastrophic conflict" in the hemisphere.