We unequivocally condemn the United States’ military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, including the forcible kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores during ongoing attacks on Caracas and surrounding regions. This act, carried out alongside airstrikes on civilian and military infrastructure, marks a new escalation in this stage of imperial warfare: the open seizure of a sovereign nation’s elected leadership in pursuit of regime change.

This is not diplomacy. It is colonial violence and capitalist greed.

The abduction of Venezuela’s head of state and First Lady is a violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the most basic principles of national sovereignty. It confirms what has long been understood: U.S. policy toward Venezuela is not about democracy or human rights, but about plunder, discipline, and example-making. The objective is to break Venezuela’s political independence, seize its oil and mineral wealth for the benefit of Yankee capitalists, and send a warning to the Global South that resistance will be punished without restraint. Yankee imperialism also has eyes on Cuba, which receives substantial quantities of necessary fuel from Venezuela.

This assault is inseparable from broader imperial preparations for war. As confrontation with Iran looms and global energy supply lines grow more fragile, Venezuela is targeted as a strategic prize. The destabilization of Latin America, the isolation of Cuba from a key energy partner, and the kidnapping of elected leadership are all part of the same imperial logic.

We affirm the right of the Venezuelan people to resist aggression and to defend their sovereignty by any means necessary. The kidnapping of their elected leadership does not confer legitimacy on any puppet authority imposed by force. History offers no ambiguity here: empires kidnap, sanction, bomb, and lie, yet they are ultimately defeated by the peoples who refuse to submit. Trump has declared his plan to steal Venezuela’s oil and install a client regime.

At the same time, we rejects the hollow theater of “solidarity” offered by NGOs and professional protest managers in the imperial core. “Peaceful” marches, symbolic statements from lying, phony politicians, and ritualized outrage did not stop the genocide in Gaza. They did not deter this attack on Venezuela. They exist to manage dissent, not to confront power.

Solidarity is not symbolic. It is material. It is measured by whether imperial capacity is weakened and whether oppressed nations gain strategic space. Those of us inside the imperial core do not need to speak for Venezuela; we need to oppose and ultimately defeat the machinery that made this kidnapping and war possible.

We call for internationalist resistance grounded in clarity, discipline, and an understanding of imperialism as a global system that must be confronted as such.

Venezuela has spoken through its history and its struggle: it will not submit. The task now is for movements in the imperial core to act with the seriousness this moment demands.

Patria o muerte. Liberation or nothing.

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