Their declared goal, the political organization said, is to cut off all oil revenues in order to force the illegal overthrow of an independent government.
“This siege is designed to provoke an economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis as a prelude to a total war by the United States,” he said.
The PSL emphasized that this aggression seeks to control Venezuelan oil and reverse the political independence of that country, following “a pattern of US intervention in Latin America, where governments that resist US control are targeted for regime changes”.
In its statement, the party recalled the attacks in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific by the US naval flotilla in the Caribbean on small vessels branded as drug trafficking and the recent illegal seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker.
Such facts “already show that the Trump administration is violently intensifying this conflict,” said the PSL. Trump has made clear his colonial intentions, it warned, by declaring the US plans to steal territory, oil and minerals from Venezuela.
The PSL, founded in 2004, reiterated that the US people have overwhelmingly opposed military intervention in Venezuela. “This war, like the war in Iraq, is based on false pretexts and imperial ambition”.
“We must organize and mobilize to stop this blockade and avoid a more extensive war. No to the war in Venezuela,” it concluded.
The activist Gloria La Riva, leader of that political force, warned that Trump and his administration continued to dangerously approach a military incursion in Venezuela, a war adventure in which they could enter and would not easily get out.
“It is evident what Trump said in his first term (2017-2021) that he was going to end Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, socialism in Latin America, is trying that,” added the also former presidential candidate for the PSL.
Yesterday the republican president ordered a total and complete blockade of oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela after the announcement of the designation of the Venezuelan government “as a terrorist organization”.
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