Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez has denounced the “Shield of the Americas” summit convened by Donald Trump in Florida as “a small reactionary and neocolonial summit” — an attack on Latin American sovereignty and an open embrace of the Monroe Doctrine.
Writing on X, Díaz-Canel called the gathering “an attack on the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, an attack on the aspirations for regional integration, and a manifestation of the willingness to subordinate oneself to the interests of the powerful neighbor to the north under the precepts of the Monroe Doctrine.”
He also highlighted that the right-wing governments attending had committed to “accepting the lethal use of U.S. military force to resolve internal problems and maintain order and tranquility in their countries.”
The summit was also denounced on social media by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. He exposed the true purposes of this servile and neocolonial event.
“The mini-summit convened by the U.S. in Florida with reactionary governments in the region seeks to force them to accept the new version of domination through the Monroe Doctrine and its Corollaries — that is, greater subordination of their nations to the power of the North,” Rodríguez Parrilla wrote.
He described the summit’s main outcome as “a servile and dishonorable document that advocates the use of military force, particularly that of the U.S., as a repressive weapon against criminal cartels in each country and to quell internal and border problems.”
“It is a clear and dangerous setback in the long and difficult process of independence for the Latin American and Caribbean peoples,” he added. “It poses a serious threat to peace, security, stability, and regional integrity and is a gross violation of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.”
Trump opens summit at Mar-a-Lago estate
Trump opened the summit Saturday at his Key Largo estate in Miami, bringing together twelve governments he counts as allies. Attending were the presidents of Argentina (Javier Milei), Bolivia (Rodrigo Paz), El Salvador (Nayib Bukele), Ecuador (Daniel Noboa), Honduras (Nasry Asfura), Paraguay (Santiago Peña), Costa Rica (Rodrigo Chaves), Panama (José Raúl Mulino), the Dominican Republic (Luis Abinader), and Guyana (Irfaan Ali), along with Chilean president-elect José Antonio Kast and Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
Trump used the occasion to threaten Cuba, claiming the island is in “its final moments.”
“Cuba is in its final moments, they have no money, they have no fuel. They have a bad regime, which has been bad for a long time,” Trump said. “We are waiting for the great change that will soon come to Cuba.”
Trump also called for the creation of “a new military coalition” and urged Latin American nations to cooperate in what he framed as an effort to “eradicate the cartels.”
The summit is part of Trump’s “Don-roe Doctrine” — a repackaging of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 — which holds that the security of the Western Hemisphere is a strategic U.S. interest and frames the presence of China in the region as a threat to stability.
Notably absent from the coalition are Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
“The only way to defeat our enemies is by appealing to our military apparatus.” This phrase sums up the current White House administration’s intentions for those countries that do not obey the designs of the new emperor of wars and genocide.
Source: Cuba en Resumen
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