The U.S. military assault on Venezuela today, and the kidnapping of the country’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, is naked imperialist aggression, and a blatant violation of international law and of Venezuela's sovereignty. Working people in the United States and the world and anyone supporting democracy need to swiftly condemn this Yankee onslaught and turn to the streets to protest it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41249975

Editorial
January 3, 2026

This is not about whether or not Maduro is a “legitimate representative” of the Venezuelan people or a “vicious” person or a “drug kingpin.” This is about enabling U.S. corporations to take control of the country’s vast oil resources, maintaining U.S. hegemony in the western hemisphere, and allowing U.S. big business to challenge increasing competition from China in the Americas, all this at the expense of the working people of the Americas.

While U.S. officials, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, try to focus attention on the pretext for these actions — the alleged role of Maduro in leading drug cartels, U.S. president Donald Trump has laid bare the underlying objective of the assault on that country.