The New Left strongly condemns the US military operation against Venezuela, the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, illegally been brought to the US.
The kidnapping of a sovereign state leader and the US military intervention are not just illegal acts but a terrorist coup on an international scale.
The deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, along with eight warships, a nuclear submarine, F-35 aircraft and approximately 10,000 military personnel, constitutes the largest US intervention in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989. At the same time, the available data from the US DEA completely deconstructs the narrative of a “war on cartels”: only 8% of cocaine to the US is trafficked from the Caribbean, while 74% arrives via the Pacific.
The promotion of a military “drug war” on the Venezuelan border was nothing more than a pretext for regime change. Trump’s statements that ground attacks and “surgical strikes” on state infrastructure are imminent, as well as the characterization of the Venezuelan government as a “narco-terrorist organization,” create conditions reminiscent of the darkest moments of the hundreds of CIA interventions that were carried out solely to change a government that American imperialism does not like and does not surrender its public resources to American interests.Venezuela is not a “special” case; it is a pilot for the next neocolonial-style interventions. Trump does not represent a momentary extremism; he represents the explicit abolition of all pretexts.
The law of the jungle. It was obvious from the beginning and one wonders about the political acumen of those who saw Trump’s election as a low-intensity threat.
The Trump administration, with its well-known contempt for international law, let alone the internal scandals that even personally implicate the US President in the Epstein case, seems to be opening the most dangerous path: a war against any legitimacy.
The people of Venezuela, like every other people in the world, have the right to decide their own future, without threats of war, exclusion and foreign intervention. Peace, democracy and self-determination are not imposed by aircraft carriers, while no one waits for “saviors”.
People take the future into their own hands.The invocation of a “peaceful transition” by European leaders is yet another proof of submission to Trumpism.The European Union does not clash with Trumpism, but translates it into acceptable language . We cannot help but see the obvious : the EU’s hypocritical bilingualism.
The EU not only does not denounce the US invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, but speaks of a “transition,” referring to dictators and effectively legitimizing the coup.This is European hypocrisy in full swing, discussing principles while accepting occupation and plunder. History is relentless: appeasing the monster means feeding it.
The condemnation of the kidnapping of Maduro and the military intervention by the US must be explicit. No legitimization of any form of American “administration” or military presence in Venezuela. What is legitimized here will be repeated elsewhere.
The New Left stands against the logic of new cold wars and regime changes that are paid for with human lives. We raise our voice together with the progressive movements of Latin America and with every force that fights for freedom and justice, against US illegal attacks and so-called “liberators”.
We demand the urgent convening of the UN Security Council, as requested by Venezuela after the military attack it suffered from the US.