By Jorge Cruz on December 7, 2025 from Havana
Dec. 6 solidarity demos world wide for Venezuela. photo: Bill Hackwell
Demonstrations were held world wide yesterday against the war mongering of the Trump administration against Venezuela. In the US over 60 rallies and events took place.
As part of the global day of solidarity with Venezuela, Cuba held a mass rally on Saturday to condemn the US military deployment in the Caribbean Sea under false pretexts and the current escalation of aggression against the legitimate Bolivarian government.
“Venezuela is not alone in facing the aggressive deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean, in the face of the drums of war that seek to sound again on our continent!” said Political Bureau member Teresa Amarelle Boué, secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women, during an event on Saturday on Calle 17 in the Vedado neighborhood of the capital, which brought together Cuban voices as part of the global day of solidarity with the sister nation.
In her keynote speech at this commemoration, she also pointed out that the United States’ measures against Venezuela—euphemistically called sanctions—are in fact an instrument of collective torture. “They intend to starve a people who have not knelt down. But as Maduro also said, Venezuela is a country of peace, but it will not tremble at threats.”
Amarelle Boué denounced the absurd pretexts and lies linking Venezuela to drug trafficking and to invented drug cartels that only exist in the American imperialist imagination, “when their own agencies and international organizations of the United Nations have not presented a single piece of evidence to justify these accusations, quite the contrary.”
According to Cubadebate, the event held in front of the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples was in response to the alert issued days earlier by the Cuban Revolutionary Government about the intensification of US actions to justify a possible military aggression.
In this context, the extraordinary accumulation of military resources in the southern Caribbean, the repeated destruction
of civilian vessels with the murder of their crews, and the threat of extending these operations to land areas were denounced. A scenario that, if it materializes, would have “incalculable consequences for the peace, security, and stability of Our America.”
In this regard, Orlando Maneiro Gaspar, Venezuela’s ambassador to Cuba, pointed out that “since August 14, there has been a constant threat, a real threat,” emphasizing that this offensive is not limited to the military sphere, but includes “the application of a criminal psychological war.” In response to this, he stated with determination that the Venezuelan and Cuban peoples have not given in and remain firm.
He declared emphatically that “we will never surrender our territory, our sovereignty,” and rejected recent threats to close Venezuelan airspace. Maneiro Gaspar recalled that this is “a sovereign space administered by the peoples of the world” and criticized U.S. actions, accusing them of “committing extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea.”
Despite this context of international pressure, the ambassador highlighted his country’s economic achievements. He said that the Venezuelan people remain on the streets in their dynamic of growth, but alert and prepared to face any aggression. Finally, he expressed his deep gratitude for the solidarity of the Cuban people and government.
In the context of commemorating the first anniversary of the UN declaration against unilateral coercive measures, he reiterated the joint commitment to work “to guarantee Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.” He concluded by valuing the opportunity to raise “that voice of rejection against the aggressions of the United States.”
For her part, Dr. Idalmis Rodríguez, a specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine who collaborated in the Bolivarian Republic, rejected the “fabricated narratives” that seek to create a hostile climate. “Recent history has taught us how world public opinion is manipulated with falsehoods in order to then proceed with invasion, the plundering of resources, and death,” she said.
She advocated for dialogue as a way to preserve the region as a Zone of Peace, in accordance with the 2014 CELAC proclamation. “Resolving any controversy requires respect and sovereign dialogue, not pressure or threats of force,” she said.
Rodriguez ended her speech with a forceful call: “Peace is not built with awards given to warmongers or with war fleets on foreign shores. Peace is built with respect for international law, with dialogue and with the firm decision of the peoples to be masters of their own future.”
Also participating in the event were Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs; members of the Secretariat of the Party’s Central Committee; leaders of mass organizations; and the main authorities of Havana and other mass organizations.
Source: Juventud Rebelde, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano – English