Stand with Venezuela

Resist US-Led War Movement Stands with Venezuela, Statement, January 3, 2026

The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in solidarity with the people of Venezuela, the Bolivarian revolution and the Venezuelan people’s right to resist and defend their sovereignty! The US’ criminal bombardment of Caracas and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro under the fabricated pretext of “narco-terrorism” is a blatant violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty and independence.

Early this morning, the US perpetrated serious military aggression against Venezuelan territory and its people in the civilian and military areas of the city of Caracas, the capital of the Venezuelan Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira in a blatant act of invasion.

This latest intervention by the US, like so many before it in Latin America, has nothing to do with drug trafficking or “defense of human rights.” The true motive is the success of the Bolivarian Revolution in breaking Washington’s decades-long stranglehold over Venezuela and taking back its natural resources for its own people. Trump’s statement that, “We are going to run the country until such time that we can ensure a safe, proper, and judicious transition of power,” followed by the announcement that US oil corporations will enter Venezuela to, “make money,” lays bare Washington’s true intention: to seize a sovereign nation that refused to hand over its resources to US monopolies and implement a colonial occupation of the country.

From the very dawn of American imperialism in Latin America, the US has viewed the region’s land, its fruits, its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity for labor and consumption, the entire wealth of natural and human resources, as nothing but opportunities for profit. The history of the dozens of US intervention operations in Latin American and the Caribbean is one followed by death, devastation, torture, and ruthless exploitation.

In the case of Venezuela this is a culmination of a decades long hybrid warfare operation against the victory of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999. US imperialism has relentlessly targeted Venezuela through sanctions, intervention attempts, and media warfare aimed not only at the government but at the entire nation. In his first term the Trump administration dramatically escalated this aggression by imposing devastating oil sanctions in 2019, unilaterally recognizing coup leader Juan Guaidó as so-called “interim president,” and freezing Venezuelan state assets abroad. These measures, continued under Biden, attacked the people and have severely crippled Venezuela’s economy, blocking access to food, medicine, and basic commodities while strangling the nation’s ability to participate in international trade.

Just as the US has waged war on the Venezuelan people for decades, the people have resisted in defending their sovereignty and self determination. As the US announces its plans to put its boots on the ground of the Bolivarian republic in a blatant attack to the country’s sovereignty the people have already taken the streets to demand the freedom of President Maduro and condemn unilateral and criminal US attack on their land. Despite threats by the US to occupy the country, the Venezuelan people bravely stand united despite the risk of a full-blown invasion by the largest military in the world and the full scale plunder of their land. The full unconditional solidarity of the people of the world must be urgently rallied to their cause.

In the face of this imperial aggression, the Resist US-Led War Movement expresses full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their ongoing struggle to defend their sovereignty. As people take the streets in Caracas and stand with the Bolivarian Revolution we call on our members and all people to join emergency demonstrations world wide and strengthen an urgent and coordinated resistance movement that calls for:

Stop the war on Venezuela! Stop the bombing!
No to U.S. wars for regime change!
Free Pres. Maduro and Cilia Flores Now!
Defend Venezuelan Sovereignty and Right to Resist
Stand Against the US-Led Imperialist Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean!