The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) firmly rejects the hateful and interfering statements made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who, in his attempt to justify his interventionist policy, has once again instigatively attacked Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, free and sovereign countries that have overcome decades of aggression.

The U.S. representative, acting with hostility against a free Latin America and the Caribbean, promotes anti-values based on the genocide of native peoples and the exploitation of migrants. Today, this agent intends to blame our countries for a “migratory crisis” that his own government has provoked. The United States is the main responsible for forced migrations in Our America, with its economic wars, criminal blockades and plundering policies. The “American dream” is a fable that manipulates migrants to later deport them in inhumane conditions, as they have clearly demonstrated.

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are not the problem; they are the victims of an aggressivepolicy that cannot tolerate seeing free peoples decide their own destiny.

ALBA-TCP demands the immediate cessation of aggressions against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, categorically rejects this new phase of extortion against all of Our America, which will not surrender or be intimidated by lies and manipulation and supports the peoples and governments of these sister nations.

Caracas, February 5, 2025