Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla on Wednesday condemned the “continuous extrajudicial executions” perpetrated by U.S. forces in international waters of the Caribbean and the Pacific.

“They constitute a serious violation of International Law and Human Rights and maintain the permanent threat to peace, security and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Rodríguez argued in a post on the social network X.

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The foreign minister criticized Washington’s “indiscriminate and illegal” use of force, while pointing out that the U.S. “does not address the roots of illicit drug trafficking,” being “the world’s main drug market” and a place where “drug traffickers’ money is laundered with impunity and with the complicity of several of its politicians.”

Previously, the Cuban foreign minister had denounced: “It is state terrorism without addressing the origin of the illegal drug trade in your country, while murdering people without due process or evidence of transporting narcotics.”

The Cuban complaint responds to U.S. military operations that, since September, have destroyed some 17 boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, with a balance of at least 66 people killed.

The most recent was reported Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who announced in X a “lethal kinetic attack” against an alleged narco-boat in the Caribbean, killing two of its crew members, on orders from President Donald Trump.

“We will locate and destroy all vessels that intend to traffic drugs into the United States,” Hegseth said, without offering evidence that the vessel was carrying narcotics.

In August, Washington deployed warships, a nuclear submarine, fighter jets and special troops off the Venezuelan coast under the pretext of “fighting drug trafficking.”

The governments of Venezuela, Colombia and Cuba have rejected the military deployment and have repeatedly warned of the threat it poses to Latin America and the Caribbean.

In this regard, they have highlighted the need to preserve the region as a “Zone of Peace”, as proclaimed at the Second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held in Havana in 2014.

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