Cuban war correspondents condemn attack against Venezuela

HAVANA, Cuba, January 12 (ACN) The Circle of War Correspondents of the Cuban Journalists Association( UPEC by its Spanish acronym) condemned the United States military attack against Venezuela on January 3, which resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and First Lady Cilia Flores, an act considered a violation of International Law, the newspaper Trabajadores reported.

Journalists who served in Angola and other countries observed a minute of silence in homage to the Cubans and Venezuelans who died defending the sovereignty and dignity of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Juvenal Balán Neyra, winner of the 2023 José Martí National Journalism Prize, emphasized that the aggressors themselves acknowledged the resistance of the 32 fallen Cuban combatants, which confirms the morale and value of the internationalism practiced by the Caribbean nation.

For her part, Journalist and essayist Katiuska Blanco Castiñeira evoked the anti-imperialist thought of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, and his confidence in victory over the economic, commercial, and financial blockade as a guide to confronting threats of military intervention against Cuba, and reaffirmed her confidence in the country's political leadership.

Milton Díaz Cánter, president of the specialized circle, noted the coincidence of the meeting with the 97th anniversary of the assassination in Mexico of Julio Antonio Mella, a paradigm of Cuban youth, and pointed out that the military deployment against Venezuela demonstrates the decline of U.S. imperialism.
Francisco Rodríguez Cruz, vice president of the UPEC, called on Cuban journalists to better prepare themselves to fight on digital networks, warning that the war against Cuba uses lies as a weapon of demoralization.

Professor Fernando Camacho Padilla, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, a guest at the meeting, called for young people from different parts of the world to join the defense of the Island by disseminating documentaries about Cuba's solidarity and internationalist work.

The correspondents reaffirmed the historic brotherhood between Cuba and Venezuela, expressed by Fidel Castro and Bolivarian Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, and reiterated that the Cuban people will defend the Revolution and socialism against external threats.

César Díaz Chacón, a journalist and war correspondent in Angola, emphasized that tenacious resistance is Cuba's greatest strength as a besieged yet impregnable stronghold.