Havana - The Cuban government has ratified its commitment Thursday to support the people and government of Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro, now targets of a destabilization strategy by the Venezuelan rightwing.

In a communique published Thursday here by the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cuba denounced a new attempt by the Organization of American States (OAS) to harass Venezuela, to crack its independence and national sovereignty.

'Calling for a consulting meeting among Foreign Ministers to harass the Venezuelan people, constitutes another action, coherent with the traditional role of the OAS as an instrument of imperialist domination,' the text of the communique said.

The statement of the Cuban Foreign Ministry reminded that OAS has always been 'turning its back to the peoples of Latin America, and absent when this region was a victim of political, economic and military aggression, or serious violations to democracy. It's time to recognize that OAS is no longer compatible with the most urgent needs of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean'.

The note rejects the position of the OAS, which 'with a false democratic creed, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Latin Americans and Caribbeans, and the poverty of millions of them. It attacks, it imposes, does not reconcile, does not talk for peaceful solutions: despises the equality and the self-determination of the countries.'

'Cuba firmly supports the decision of Venezuela to withdraw from the OAS, after facing the interference, the harassment and the ignominy by the OAS and its Secretary General Luis Almagro, because OAS never wanted to accept a Venezuelan popular government, much less, to help Venezuela. On the contrary, it put itself in line, each time higher and stronger, with purposes to overthrow the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution,' the communique underlines.