There can be no silence or acceptance in the face of this act of state terrorism 

Last Saturday, not only in Latin America but in many parts of the world, dawn was tinged with indignation: the aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela does not leave the righteous unmoved. This is nothing less than a fascist act, which seeks to plunder natural resources.

For this reason, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, together with the people of Havana, denounced, from the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, the aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores.

At the event, Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), warned that "you don't play with the homeland. You don't play with the Revolution. You don't play with Cuban unity," after pointing out that certain figures are threatening that "Venezuela first and Cuba second."

He emphasized the cost of independence and criticized unilateral actions: "Humanity must raise its voice and tell the empire that we are in the 21st century, and that the world is not governed like a town in the Wild West, with guns."

He denounced the attack as an arbitrary act that has claimed innocent lives: "The bombs that fell on different cities in Venezuela did not ask who was a Chavista and who was not when they exploded. We are receiving reports that they have cost the lives of innocent people.

"This is what can happen to any people who let their guard down. It is what can happen to any people who do not maintain their unity. That is the price that must be paid," he warned.

CUBA AND VENEZUELA: ONE FLAG

Abel Prieto Jiménez, president of Casa de las Américas, demanded universal condemnation: "There cannot be a single decent person in this world who does not denounce this infamous act," and called for "knocking on every door to spread the truth about this sinister plan to seize Venezuela's wealth."

He defined the conflict as a struggle between "the forces of hatred, war, and death and the forces of sovereignty, dignity, and life."

Quoting Fidel Castro on Vietnam—"We are willing to give even our own blood"—Abel affirmed that today that sentiment applies to Venezuela. He reiterated the historic unity between the two nations with the slogan "Cuba and Venezuela, one flag," recently proclaimed at an event in Caracas.

In the name of "the Socialist Revolution that has accumulated so much history of resistance and victories," he demanded "the release of President Maduro and the withdrawal of imperialist military forces from the Caribbean."

AN ASSAULT ON REGIONAL PEACE

Fernando González Llort, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), described the U.S. military aggression against Venezuela that took place "in the early hours of today" as a "cowardly and vile attack."

He warned that the aggression "transcends Venezuela's borders" and constitutes "a direct attack on the pillars of coexistence and international law." He also defined it as "a heinous assault on the aspiration to build a zone of peace."

He supported the demand for "proof of life of President Nicolás Maduro" and called for "global mobilization for peace." He concluded by stating that "Venezuela today is the cause of humanity" and that supporting it is "defending our right to peace."

THE CUBAN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY ALSO DENOUNCES THE AGGRESSION AGAINST VENEZUELA

The prominent Cuban scientist and Heroine of Labor of the Republic, Belinda Sánchez Ramírez, stated: "We Cuban scientists who strive to produce medicines to save lives cannot help but feel nothing but repudiation and horror at these specialists who cause death and pain."

She warned that "today the aggression was against Venezuela, but tomorrow it could be against Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico," or any country with natural resources or independence.

The scientist warned that "fascist imperialism does not respect international law. It does not respect or recognize the sovereignty of peoples, nor life, nor does it understand the concept of dignity."

In response, she reaffirmed that "Cuba will continue to defend peace and the sovereignty of peoples," committing to "life, solidarity, love, truth, and always unity."

CUBAN MEDICAL WORKER DENOUNCES ATTACK AND DEMANDS INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE

Cuban medical worker Agnerys Cruz Rodríguez, who worked in Venezuela for ten years, spoke at the anti-imperialist forum to demand an urgent response from the international community to the "criminal attack by the United States on Venezuela."

With her knowledge of the reality in Venezuela, she asked: "Where is the United Nations? Where are those who define themselves as defenders of peace?" She denounced that "a state cannot claim the right to be the judge of the world" and that "international mechanisms must take sides in the matter."

YOUNG PEOPLE ALSO RAISE THEIR VOICES

Adriana Amore Moreno, secretary general of the Union of Young Communists at the Higher Institute of International Relations, denounced that the aggression against Venezuela "is not an isolated incident, it is the most brutal manifestation of an imperial strategy that has been in place for decades."

She described a "familiar sequence": "First, economic sanctions; then a media war to delegitimize the country; a financial blockade to strangle it; and finally, when the people refuse to surrender, direct aggression." She stated that everything "has been built on lies and manipulation."

The youth leader questioned the real motive: "The annihilation of ideas, the destruction of principles and of Latin American unity, which they fear so much because they know that united peoples are unbreakable."

She reiterated unwavering solidarity: "Venezuela is not alone, because its cause is our cause. Venezuelan sovereignty is indivisible from our struggle."