Guantanamo.- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reaffirmed his support for the Venezuelan government’s statement denouncing the attack on one of its oil tankers.

“This constitutes an act of piracy, a violation of International Law, and an escalation of aggression against that sister nation,” the president stated on social media.

The Bolivarian nation denounced “the blatant theft and act of international piracy” that the attack and seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea represents.

This new and extremely serious step in the escalation of aggression comes after the announcement of the U.S. National Security Strategy, which seeks to reaffirm, 200 years later, the abominable Monroe Doctrine.

The Bolivarian statement noted that once again “the true objective of the imperial offensive has been exposed: the obsessive desire to seize its natural resources,” and affirmed that it is “a demonstration of everything the empire is willing to do to impose its agenda and interests against our people.”