Cuba rejects US military deployment in the Caribbean

HAVANA, Cuba, August 28 (ACN) Through a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cuban government declared its strong rejection of the current deployment of US military forces in the Caribbean.

Below is the full text of the document:

The Cuban government strongly rejects the current deployment of United States military forces in the Caribbean Sea. This dangerous act represents a grave threat and an aggressive show of force that undermines the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. It also ignores the commitment of the 33 member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to proclaim the region a Zone of Peace.

The US accusation of associating the legitimate government of Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro Moros with criminal drug trafficking organizations is an absurd and baseless pretext. Washington’s powers that be are irresponsibly dismissing the assessment of their own Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), which, in its report this year, does not name the Venezuelan government among the perpetrators or facilitators of drug trafficking operations that threaten US territory.

The US government is once again resorting to lies to justify violence and dispossession, using them in the renewed deployment of the domination scheme anchored in the Monroe Doctrine, the key to its interventionism in the Americas. Similar fallacies have been argued to launch ruthless attacks with considerable and prolonged human costs. An example from recent decades was the farce surrounding the alleged presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, an excuse to attack and invade a sovereign country, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its citizens and the forced displacement of a similar number.

The United States is the largest drug market in the region, and possibly in the world, according to the 2025 Global Drug Report issued by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. This is a well-known fact, and the international community has a duty to denounce it. It is there that the largest networks are located to encourage consumption, guarantee distribution, facilitate trafficking, collect and hoard the large sums of profits, and launder the resulting money within the country's own economy with relative impunity, without any serious and effective government effort to prevent it.

The huge sums of money from the US illegal market incite the creation and operation of drug trafficking networks in Latin America and the Caribbean. That country's vigorous arms industry and its uncontrolled marketing privileges fuel the lethal power of the region's criminal organizations. The lack of attention and action against the root causes of the phenomenon within the United States will only exacerbate the regional impact of this scourge.

Cuba reiterates its firm commitment to the honest and effective fight against illicit drug trafficking, the defense of national sovereignty, and the promotion of peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It equally strongly denounces the use of irregular migratory flows as a pretext to turn the waters of the Caribbean Sea into a war zone. No one with a modicum of common sense or honesty conceives that the scale of the troops, military equipment, naval assets, including nuclear submarines, and firepower that the United States has decided to deploy in this peaceful part of the world is the appropriate way to combat organized crime, illicit drug trafficking, or irregular migratory flows, nor that this deployment truly achieves the stated objectives.

Cuba reiterates the call made by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez at the 13th Extraordinary Summit of ALBA-TCP, on August 20, to firmly denounce the new displays of imperialist force.

Havana, August 28, 2025