Orinoco Tribune: Majority of CELAC Members Voice Alarm Over US Military Moves in Caribbean Colombia President Petro: “The United States government, if it respects international law, has my full support, but if it violates it, we must rebuild our collaboration. Under my administration, Colombia does not collaborate with murderers.” Most member countries from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) expressed deep concern over the recent US military deployment in the region. They also reaffirmed their commitment to combat drug trafficking within the framework of international law. The following nations expressed concern about the US military threats: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. These countries’ unwillingness to sign the declaration made their submission to US imperialism quite clear: Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Sara Flounders: Defend Venezuela against U.S. attack The US working class, anti-war, anti-imperialist movement and all movements for social justice have a responsibility to prepare for combating every US war move. Today we face the growing threat of an attack on Venezuela. The US rulers want to get their hands on Venezuela’s rich oil, gas, gold, diamonds, coal, and bauxite resources, all nationalized for the benefit of the people. US imperialism aims to impede any political or economic system independent of its corporations and their profits. Governments of 80 nations have repudiated the presence of U.S. warships in the Caribbean threatening Venezuela. Since World War II, US wars, arms deliveries and interventions have killed some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries.
Roger Harris, Joe Emersberger: All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela Referring to the US blowing up the speed boat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio crowed about the “full power of America, the full might of the United States.” Maduro responded that “they come for Venezuelan oil and gas, they want them for free.” Now direct military confrontation is possible, which could involve an attempt to assassinate the entire Bolivarian leadership.
Trump could have mobilized against trafficking within the US and against close allies like Ecuador. Illicit drug sales in the US are estimated at $200–$750 billion, including new synthetics. The only other domestic commodity that comes close in volume is legal pharmaceuticals at $600 billion, followed by oil and gas at $400 billion. The US is the largest consumer of illegal drugs and a major supplier of weapons and drug precursor chemicals for the cartels. As the world’s leading narcotics money launderer, prominent US banks implicated include HSBC Bank USA, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.
Orinoco Tribune: President Maduro: US Fabricating Drug Trafficking Dossier to Attack Venezuela Maduro said, “The US is trying to try to cover up [its intentions] with a dirty, Hollywood-style dossier that classifies the good guys and the bad guys, where Latinos are always the bad guys and the gringos are always the good guys.” He suggested Trump look at data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which show Venezuela’s achievements combating drug trafficking. President Maduro explained, “Since Daniel Noboa came to power [in Ecuador], the amount of cocaine passing through Ecuador rose from 20% to 60%… Colombian cocaine now leaves through Ecuadorian ports, thanks to President Daniel Noboa, a fake president. Meanwhile, 8% leaves from La Guajira, northern Colombia, and only 5% try to pass through Venezuela.”
TeleSur: Venezuelans Rally in Caracas in Support of President Maduro Maduro announced that he expected about 8.2 million people to join the Bolivarian National Militia in response to US threats, that 4.5 million people with proper military training make up the “powerful base” of the Bolivarian militia. That base number will be matched by a similar number of people who have recently enlisted. “For the first time in the country’s military history, the Communal Militia Units (UCM) are active in 5,336 communities to participate in comprehensive defense.”
Party for Socialism and Liberation Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America! Trump has repeatedly shown a propensity for one-off attacks that “make a statement” about US military dominance but fall short of an open-ended war. In his first term, this was on display in his 2017 missile attack against Syria and his 2020 assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani – and again in June when he bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. These massive violations of the sovereignty of nations did not escalate into all-out war but that was far from assured.
The fantasy dreamed up by U.S. politicians and the corporate media is that President Maduro leads a drug trafficking operation called the “Cartel of the Suns”. No one has ever presented any concrete evidence that the organization exists, let alone that it is led by the Venezuelan head of state. If Trump actually wanted to combat drug trafficking, he could start by arresting executives at the big pharmaceutical companies that started the opioid crisis, like the Sackler family.
Mision Verdad: Special Timeline of Political Violence in Venezuela (2002-2024) The following timeline presents the main milestones of political violence motivated by destabilization in Venezuela, from 2002 to 2024. This highlights the episodes that have shaken the political, economic, social and existential life of Venezuela, marked by (attempted) overthrow of government, violent protests (guarimbas), military conspiracies, foreign incursions, failed assassinations, etc., which have characterized the country over the last two and a half decades.
Daniel Ortega Speech on the Anniversary of the Founding of the Army of Nicaragua By defending Peace, we defend Employment, we defend Education, we defend Health, we defend the construction of Hospitals, the construction of Roads, we defend all that, and all that has been achieved.
Today there is the news, [US government says] look what we are doing, we are managing to control drug trafficking. The President himself came out to report that they had managed to blow up a boat carrying drugs; a small boat was hit by a couple of rockets and blown into bits and 11 people who were traveling were killed. How do they prove that those people were drug traffickers and that they were carrying drugs for the United States? How do they prove it? In fact it is just a way of trying to show that they are tough, when have no power, no ability to control drug consumption in the United States.
[The US] should start at home, by putting order in the United States, that they should control land customs crossings and maritime customs crossings, that they should control the airports; they have sufficient means to carry out this control, they are going to make a fool of themselves by placing ships [in the Caribbean] threatening the Venezuelan people. Why do drugs enter the United States? Because there are big drug traffickers there who carry out that business and who have bought off the authorities. Let them start at home, bring order to the United States, control the land customs crossings and the maritime customs crossings, control their Ports and Airports.
A man like Chávez, generous, with so much help he gave us, that really is the greatest Solidarity we have received in a critical moment like that, and thanks to those generating Plants we are here today gathered underneath these great lights, otherwise there would be no lights, there would be blackouts. But Chávez, a very generous revolutionary, very Christian, did not hesitate to have those plants that were heading to Venezuela moved from Cuba to Nicaragua, because they were in transit in Cuba. These are really attitudes that are only found in Peoples and Governments with a mentality of Justice, and of helping without setting conditions, like Cuba.
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