Passed by Friends of the Earth International at their meeting in Dhaka, Bangla Desh on 11 November 2025

Historically, the Caribbean has been subjected to US control in order to satisfy its imperialist interests. For example, we recall the actions that have taken place in Haiti with MINUSTAH, which, under the guise of supporting the Haitian people and institutions, became a strategy of subjugation that continues to have consequences and ensured the imposition of interests alien to the will of the people, who became increasingly impoverished, where human rights were also systematically violated, such as the sexual abuse of minors by the occupying forces. Currently, the Multinational Security Support Mission is being developed, without guaranteeing any kind of governance and with a catastrophic situation for the Haitian people.

We also recall the criminal blockade to which the Cuban people have been subjected for more than 60 years, which has led to impoverishment and precarious living conditions, a strategy of war to destroy any type of construction that escapes the impositions for the accumulation of capital based on dispossession and political subordination.

In recent months, the Caribbean has become the scene of military escalation by the United States, controlling territories in different countries and subjecting their governments to unilateral definitions aimed at regional destabilization and the imposition of a doctrine promoted for the strategic control of natural resources, the workforce, and life in all its manifestations.

Through this resolution, we request that the Caribbean and Latin America be maintained as a territory of peace, guaranteeing the sovereignty of the peoples and confronting the vulnerability to which the United States’ military operations are subjecting the region. We demand an end to interventionism in the democratic processes of countries such as Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and Saint Vincent, and a halt to interference in electoral processes, while suspending the military operations that the United States is implementing in the Caribbean, turning it into a platform for a possible invasion of Venezuela and Colombia as the beginning of an escalation that could spread throughout the continent.

The presence of nuclear-powered military vessels and the use of Puerto Rico, a US colony, and the Virgin Islands as militarised bases with the aim of threatening democracy in our territories is cause for concern.