The United Nations Security Council addressed the escalating US aggression against Venezuela on Tuesday, December 23, in New York. This aggression includes a naval blockade announced by Donald Trump and threats of using military force to seize the South American country’s energy resources. The session was requested by the Venezuelan ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada.

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At the start of the debate, Khaled Khiari, Under-Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, noted the increase in US military operations off the Venezuelan coast, which has intensified bilateral tensions. Since August 2025, Washington has deployed the largest military mobilization in the Caribbean in decades, initially justified as a counter-narcotics operation—without presenting any evidence against the government of President Nicolás Maduro—but which later shifted its narrative to the “appropriation of Venezuela’s vast energy resources,” given that the country possesses the world’s largest oil reserves.

Caracas denounces the US strategy as an attempt to force “regime change” in order to control oil and other strategic assets, while the US military deployment—which includes 15,000 troops, warships, an aircraft carrier, planes, and helicopters—has resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people in over 20 bombings of vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

The UN has called for “urgent independent investigations” and urged Washington to take measures to prevent extrajudicial killings. Recently, the U.S. government ordered a “total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela,” based on unfounded accusations and a new narrative linking President Maduro’s government to “narco-terrorism” through the alleged use of “oil, land, and other assets stolen from the U.S.”

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