Cuba's First Secretary of the Communist Party and President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, described the Shield of the Americas summit, held in Florida under the auspices of the US President, as an attack on Latin America and the Caribbean's Zone of Peace. Díaz-Canel portrayed the event as a manifestation of subordination to the northern neighbor's interests under the Monroe Doctrine. Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, also denounced the meeting as a setback for regional independence.
The Shield of the Americas summit, convened by the United States in Florida, has drawn sharp criticism from Havana. Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on his social media account, labeled it a 'small reactionary and neocolonial Florida Summit,' where right-wing governments from the region committed to accepting the lethal use of US military force to address internal issues and maintain order in their countries.
Díaz-Canel stressed that the event attacks the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, undermines regional integration aspirations, and shows a willingness to subordinate to the interests of the powerful northern neighbor under the Monroe Doctrine's precepts.
Cuba's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, via his X account, stated that the mini-summit aims to compel reactionary governments to embrace a new form of domination through the Monroe Doctrine and its corollaries, entailing greater subordination of their nations to northern power.
Rodríguez Parrilla noted that the only publicly acknowledged outcome was attendees signing a 'servile and dishonorable document' advocating military force, particularly from the United States, as a repressive tool against criminal cartels in each country and to suppress internal and border conflicts.
Both Cuban leaders warned that this development marks a clear and dangerous setback in the long process of independence for Latin American and Caribbean peoples, posing a grave threat to peace, security, stability, and regional integrity, and blatantly violating the Zone of Peace Proclamation.