Lukashenko Grew Concerned About The Cuban Regime And Recalled Maduro's Takeover

The ruler once again put himself in the shoes of his arrested friend.

Dictator Lukashenko called on the U.S. to to negotiate with Cuba and not to repeat the “Venezuelan” and Iranian scenarios there. He made this statement at the Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security.

“Cuba is next. We know very well what’s going on there. Does anyone really expect aggression from them—from the Cubans? I’m sure not. It’s just that they don’t like the very existence of the Island of Freedom and the policies pursued by the country’s leadership. We need to negotiate with Cuba and build normal relations,” he said.

The dictator, who likes to imagine himself in the shoes of his overthrown dictator friends, also recalled the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

Lukashenko stated that even before Maduro’s capture, he had been involved in the process at the Americans’ initiative and believes that all problems, including those related to oil, could have been resolved without “nonsense” and a forceful scenario. According to him, he had worked closely with Chávez and knows that the oil produced in Venezuela is mostly heavy crude, and since refineries capable of processing it have been built only in the U.S., cooperation was possible.

“No, they heroically attacked the country and captured Maduro in the middle of the night. Oh well, that’s just our president’s fate. What did his wife do wrong? And now I don’t know what to do about it. I warned them, too. Did you capture him? But have you thought about what will happen tomorrow? How are we going to get out of this situation?” said Lukashenko.

On the night of January 3, 2026, American special forces captured dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in Caracas. They were detained on the grounds of the Fuerte Tiuna military complex and subsequently transported to the United States. Maduro was charged with crimes related to drug trafficking.

Preparations had been underway for several months: in November 2025, Donald Trump authorized secret CIA operations in Venezuela. According to The New York Times, the operation began with a cyberattack that caused a power outage in Caracas, allowing aircraft to be secretly deployed. According to media reports, shortly before that, the U.S. had offered Maduro the chance to step down and leave for Turkey.

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