Donald Trump’s illegal actions in Venezuela recently boosted the threat of direct US military action in Latin America. And as Trump’s regime eyes up other targets in the region, Your Party’s Zarah Sultana has joined with “parliamentarians, trade unionists and organisers from more than 20 countries” to stand firmly against US expansionism.
Resistance in solidarity with Latin America
Latin America has long been a key target for US terror. And amid Trump’s new “imperial assault” in the region, Sultana travelled to Colombia to show her opposition. There, she and other attendees:
forged a shared diagnosis of the present crisis and a common strategy to confront it.
They then adopted a ‘San Carlos Declaration’, affirming all people’s right to decide their own future (independently of US interests). This declaration also insisted on the need for unity in defending that right.
As French politician Clémence Guetté insisted:
We will not let Trump sow chaos across the entire world without reacting.
Proud to join parliamentarians, trade unionists and organisers from more than 20 countries at the Nuestra América convening in Bogotá this weekend, where we signed the San Carlos Declaration.
As anti-imperialists, we reject the Monroe Doctrine and defend the sovereignty and… pic.twitter.com/Y2ViQxamZt
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) January 27, 2026
Sultana asserted that left-wingers need to:
work across borders to resist Donald Trump’s crude expansionism.
And she stressed that:
The UK and Keir Starmer must stop acting as Trump’s poodle.
It was great to speak with Colombian President Gustavo Petro about the need for the left to stand firm in our anti-imperialism and work across borders to resist Donald Trump’s crude expansionism.
As @petrogustavo warned in December 2023, what we’ve witnessed in Gaza is a… pic.twitter.com/FnLEaDEN0v
— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) January 26, 2026
Numerous figures from the US itself were also there to oppose Trump’s interventionism.
As co-general coordinator of Progressive International David Adler pointed out, the US is particularly gleeful about the stranglehold it’s been forcing onto long-time bogeyman Cuba, which Trump has claimed:
will be failing pretty soon
If you are not actively organizing against Trump’s imperial designs for Cuba, then you are complicit in the destruction of international law and its most basic principle of self-determination. Stop waiting for a kinetic intervention. Speak up and join the fight to stop him now. https://t.co/mFZBww8aG5
— David Adler (@davidrkadler) January 28, 2026
Zarah Sultana: ‘The same struggle we have across the world’
Speaking at the Nuestra América (Our America) conference, Sultana argued that:
The struggle we have here in Colombia is the same struggle we have across the world… What happens in this hemisphere never stays just here.
She said “sovereignty itself is at risk” following the US abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, highlighting that:
If it can happen in Venezuela, it can happen anywhere.
She condemned the British government’s failure to oppose this breach of international law. But this was unsurprising considering the UK’s loyal and longstanding support for US foreign policy aims. Indeed, she pointed out that the UK’s own destructive “legacy has not ended”, having been a key player “from empire to global capital”.
Amid the West’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Sultana stressed, international law has “become meaningless”. That’s why, she said:
our struggles are deeply connected. What happens in Colombia matters in the UK, what happens in Venezuela matters in Palestine, what happens here shapes people everywhere.
With this in mind, she asserted:
Internationalism isn’t charity. It is collective self-defence.
Featured image via Twitter
By Ed Sykes
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