U.S. escalates
In August, Trump’s DOJ increased the reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the democratically elected President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, to $50 million, declared him a “terrorist” and leader of a “drug cartel,” and deployed 4,500 U.S. troops to Caribbean waters.
The reward is to encourage the Venezuelan opposition’s paramilitaries to assassinate President Maduro, and the Venezuelan people understand that this is what is meant by “arrest and/or conviction.”
Since then, the U.S. has made threats and psychological war against Venezuela for over twenty days, sending a ship scheduled to be decommissioned this year, but also conducting surveillance of Venezuela’s coast with a U.S. Navy plane. The deployments have been coming out of Puerto Rico, a U.S. colony. The most recent assessment of the U.S. arsenal aimed at Venezuela is 1,200 missiles and eight warships, including a nuclear submarine.
Venezuela responds
In response to U.S. threats, President Maduro called for voluntary enlistment in the National Bolivarian Militia, established Peace Quadrants ensuring rapid response of the whole community, and completed “special revolutionary operations,” which consisted of marches, attack simulations, and live-fire exercises. In response to the U.S. military buildup near the Venezuelan coast, the National Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela (FANB) deployed ships and aircraft in Los Monjes as part of Operation Bolivarian Shield, and other naval forces and ground forces as part of Operation Sifones.
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez rallied the peasant sector, so that the food they grow will feed those who fight. She also met with the Council of the Popular Power of Fishermen and Aquaculture Workers, ensuring a supply of fish for the country. Over a period of two weekends, 8,200,000 citizens of the Bolivarian Republic enlisted in the National Bolivarian Militia to defend Venezuela.
U.S. secretary of State is behind this
The main instigator driving these attacks on the Bolivarian Republic is U.S. secretary of State Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio is a Cuban reactionary and is leading the aggression against Venezuela. Marco Rubio’s brother-in-law was convicted of drug trafficking as the “front man” for a cartel worth $75 million. At one point, Rubio reportedly lived in a house financed by drugs; he is widely known as “Narco Rubio.”
President Maduro has warned that Washington has been infiltrated by the “Miami mafia” and, through the State Department, has been exerting “maximum pressure” on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Initially, that came in the form of sanctions, assassination attempts, and the ill-fated invasion in 2024 that the FANB foiled mightily.
In addition to oil
The U.S. has clear motivations for wanting to invade Venezuela, including the over 300 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil and the resource wealth of the rest of South America. Since they are not dealing with a U.S.-backed puppet, this has caused the colonial State to move in such an aggressive fashion, with the lie of this being a “war on drugs.”
Venezuela and Colombia join forces
Upon the establishment of Binational Zone 1, Colombian President Gustavo Petro sent 25,000 soldiers to the border. As part of the Binational Operation for Sovereignty, Peace, and Absolute Security, weapons, including an Israeli submachine gun, ammunition and a truck were seized.
Venezuela has won the support of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, and the people of Brazil. The governments of Guyana, Trinidad, and the Dominican Republic have allied with the U.S.
Why we must stand with the government and people of Venezuela
Chairman Omali Yeshitela expressed his unconditional solidarity with “President Maduro and the government and people of Venezuela” during his Oxford Union Address in 2019. He has also said that Venezuela is “on a revolutionary trajectory.”
The Venezuelan people are not only workers but raza, meaning Afro-indigenous and Latin people in the southern part of this continent. They have denied the colonizers’ full access to this continent. They produce value for themselves.
The Bolivarian Revolution, which was led by Hugo Chávez and continues with President Maduro, is a longstanding, tenacious force in the global anti-colonial fight for liberation. The Chavistas identify themselves as socialists, anti-imperialists, and anti-colonialist. President Maduro describes Venezuelans as the “historic rebels of this continent.” They have recently achieved the ability to consistently produce food for their people, a heroic feat under sanctions that just a few years ago had forced them to wait in lines for food aid.
Venezuela has sent a ship with 6,000 tons of food, seeds, and fertilizers to Cuba, still under illegal U.S. blockade. President Maduro has said that a war against Venezuela means a war on the whole of South America and the Caribbean.
This concerns all humans because it’s also a war on the lungs of the earth itself, the Amazon rainforest. Venezuela is vital to the global anti-colonial struggle for liberation and for the continuation of human life.
The south is not the U.S.’ backyard!
Viva Venezuela socialista!
Uhuru!
