The threat currently looming over Venezuela, as a result of the irrational U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean, also represents a danger to the region and all of Latin America, which has been declared a Zone of Peace since 2014.
This was denounced by Cuba before the second session of the Standing Committee of the Forum for the Freedom of Nations, held in Sochi, Russia, in which a delegation from the Communist Party of Cuba participated, led by Emilio Lozada García, head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee.
In addition to reiterating the support of the largest of the Antilles for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the popular-military-police merger, Lozada García condemned the direct aggression that also constitutes the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the U.S. government on Cuba, a genocidal policy expressly rejected in the final declaration of the Forum, which brought together representatives of more than 60 political parties from the Global South.
In another session, called BRICS Europe, he stressed that strengthening this mechanism is essential for achieving a new international order that is fair, democratic, and equitable.
