Cuba warns of a possible US aggression to "violently overthrow" Maduro

Havana,.- Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío warned this Saturday about the “danger” of a possible military aggression by the United States to “overthrow with violence” the Government headed by Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.

"The danger of military and terrorist aggression against Venezuela is growing, with the aim of violently overthrowing the government of that sister nation. A US coup against Our America and its long path of independence," stated the Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs on social media.

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The United States has maintained a large-scale military deployment in the Caribbean Sea near Venezuela for two months under the argument of fighting drug trafficking. The US campaign began in September and, to date, has consisted of bombing civilian boats allegedly linked to the illicit trafficking of narcotics. These attacks have spread to Pacific waters and have left more than eighty people dead so far. Several airlines from Europe and America canceled their flights to Venezuela this Saturday, after the United States Federal Aviation Administration issued an international notice the day before urging to "exercise extreme caution" when flying over the South American country and the southern Caribbean Sea. Cuba, a historical ally of Chavismo, has warned from the beginning of the tensions that "cannot be legally or morally accepted" what it considers "pretexts" from Washington for a possible aggression against Venezuela.

This Saturday, the Venezuelan chancellor, Yván Gil, shared a letter sent by the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, to Maduro on the eve of his birthday in which he considered that Caracas "will emerge victorious" against what he labeled as "new imperial threats".