By: Staff Writer
September 29, 2025
Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, warned in his speech at the 80th United Nations General Assembly that the theat of war is now in the Caribbean sea, remarking on the military build up from the United States.
Parrilla, said: “The threat of war looms large today over the Caribbean Sea, with an extraordinary and absolutely unjustified naval and air buildup, with landing and assault ships and nuclear submarines.
“The United States uses the pretext of combating crime and drug trafficking, a story that no one believes.
“The attack and destruction of unregistered or unchartered course speedboats; the extrajudicial murder or execution of civilians; the interdiction of fishing vessels or boats and the aggressive actions of the United States create a dangerous situation that violates International Law and threatens regional peace and security.”
The Trump administration has hit three Venezuelan vessels in the last 30 days that they suspected were being used to traffic narcotics into the US.
So far, a suspected 15 people have been killed by the air attacks, all of whom are suspected drug traffickers the Trump administration has said.
The hits have sparked debate around the Caribbean with some, like Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessesar, agreeing with strikes and being in favour of the US using the Caribbean sea to launch their assaults against Venezeulan crafts
Others, like the Prime Minister of Grenada, Dickon Mitchell along with the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, have called for a cessaston int he air strikes and are questioning the legitimacy of the attacks.
Parrilla also said: “We reaffirm our support to the Bolivarian government of Venezuela and the Popular and Military union led by President Nicolás Maduro Moros, and our strong rejection of the threats of aggression against this sister Latin American and Caribbean nation.
“We reject the Monroe Doctrine as well as any attempt of militarization, intervention or imperialist domination in Latin America and the Caribbean, declared as a Zone of Peace in January 2014 in Havana, the proclamation of which was signed by the Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.”
Cuba, a long standing adversary of successive US administrations, going back to the John F Kennedy administration in the early 1960’s at the beginning of the Cold War, has been on the brunt of US sanctions for the past 50 years.
Parilla also said: “The accelerated arms race involves a competition in the realm of death and destruction, with the use of extraordinary financial and material resources that could be used for mitigating poverty, promote development and cooperation.
“Meanwhile, most of the meager goals of the 2030 Agenda will not be met; Official Development Assistance commitments are ignored; and funding for combating climate change is declining.
“In 1960, before this very Assembly, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution warned, and I quote: “’Let the philosophy of dispossession disappear, and the philosophy of war will have disappeared.”’”