Cymru Cuba speaker extends solidarity to Venezuela and highlights threat to Cuba

Following the US attack on Venezuela, a solidarity protest took place in Cardiff on 5 January. Dominic MacAskill from Cymru Cuba was among the speakers and delivered the following remarks:

Cymru Cuba activist extends solidarity to Venezuela

I am speaking on behalf of Cymru Cuba, the Welsh arm of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Britain.

The Cuba Solidarity Campaign unequivocally condemns the US bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president. This reckless and illegal act of military aggression is a blatant violation of international law and an attack on Venezuela’s sovereignty, regional peace, and the fundamental right of nations to self-determination, free from imperialist violence.

The use of US air power against Venezuela marks a grave and dangerous escalation. It confirms that Washington has moved beyond economic warfare, covert destabilisation and proxy operations to open military assault. This is not “security cooperation” or “counter-narcotics” – it is an act of war.

Cymru Cuba calls on the Welsh Government and all Members of the Senedd to publicly condemn the US bombing; demand a halt to all military operations against Venezuela; the return of president Maduro and oppose any further escalation that threatens catastrophic consequences for the region.

Silence is complicity with this blatant imperialist act of aggression.

For more than two decades, successive US administrations have sought to overthrow Venezuela’s sovereign government through coups, sanctions, diplomatic isolation and economic strangulation. Those measures have inflicted immense suffering on the Venezuelan people.

This US action represents the most extreme expression of that long-running campaign. The use of direct military force to impose US political control.

The attack poses a threat far beyond Venezuela’s borders. US military aggression destabilises the entire Caribbean and Latin America, endangers shipping lanes and energy supplies, and raises the risk of wider regional conflict.

It also constitutes a direct threat to Cuba. US attacks on Venezuela are inseparable from Washington’s long-standing objective of isolating, economically suffocating and politically destabilising both Venezuela and Cuba.

Cymru Cuba stands with Venezuela and Cuba in the face of this aggression. We echo the firm condemnations issued by governments and peoples across the Global South and affirm that no nation has the right to bomb another under false pretexts or imperial ambition.

Stand for peace, sovereignty and international law.

Imperialist intervention must be resisted.

Solidarity with the people of Venezuela!

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