They condemn Washington’s military threats and call for an end to the U.S. blockade.

This week, the Social Movements and Communes Council, an entity attached to the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, accompanied by other Venezuelan grassroots organizations, held the solidarity gathering “A Hug for Cuba” at the Cuban Embassy in Caracas.

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During the event, social movements expressed their unconditional support for the Caribbean island amid increasing international pressures, stating that Cuba has the active backing of the Venezuelan people in the streets and in any scenario in defense of the sovereignty of the Greater Homeland.

They denounced what they described as recent threats of direct military intervention by U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, saying they constitute a war escalation intended to spread fear on the Caribbean island, in complicity with far-right sectors based in Miami.

Grassroots organizations warned that Washington’s current intentions represent the continuation of a criminal policy of more than six decades of economic, commercial and financial blockade.

They also highlighted that the current situation is qualitatively more dangerous because Washington has raised the possibility of armed aggression against the Cuban nation, which would cause bloodshed and unleash a conflict with unpredictable consequences for peace in the region.

In that regard, the social organizations’ statement described the economic strangulation and energy suffocation against Cuba as a genocide planned to generate severe effects on the civilian population through restricting access to medicines, food and basic resources.

Venezuelan communal organizations praised the Cuban people’s creative resistance in the face of arbitrary U.S. sanctions and rejected accusations against Army Gen. Raul Castro and members of the Cuban military, emphasizing that those accusations criminalize the defense of territorial integrity.

Finally, the social movements issued an urgent international call to stop the White House’s policy of hostility, demanding the immediate lifting of the blockade, Cuba’s removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and the end of what they described as unfounded judicial charges against Castro.

Venezuelan activists reaffirmed their historic gratitude toward Cuba for its social cooperation in health and education programs. The solidarity gathering concluded with an urgent call to defend Cuba’s right to develop in peace, independently and without foreign interference.

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Source: Simon Bolivar Institute

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