03/01/2026
๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฅ
๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐.๐. ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐
The Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KILUSAN) vehemently condemns the latest act of armed aggression launched by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. After more than 25 years of interventionist plots, Washington has escalated its campaign of destabilization into outright military aggressionโan assault on the sovereignty, dignity, and self-determination of the Venezuelan people.
For decades, Venezuelaโs vast oil reserves were monopolized by U.S. corporations such as Mobil and Exxon. This changed in 1999, when the first Bolivarian President, Hugo Chรกvez Frรญas, nationalized the oil industry, reclaiming Venezuelaโs resources for its people. Since then, successive U.S. administrations have conspired to impose regime change, sabotage Venezuelaโs economy, and undermine its democratic institutionsโall in pursuit of โrepossessingโ its oil and mineral wealth.
Today, Venezuela holds the largest proven oil reserves in the world, alongside significant deposits of gold, bauxite, and other strategic minerals. The Trump governmentโs aggression is not about democracy or human rightsโit is about plunder. It is about reasserting monopoly control over resources that rightfully belong to the Venezuelan people.
According to US President Trump, US military forces have captured Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro and his wife following U.S. airstrikes. While these claims have been widely circulated, they have not yet been independently verified. Regardless of confirmation, such reports underscore the gravity of the situation and the scale of U.S. intervention.
The aggression is also cloaked in false narratives. President Trump has attempted to justify attacks on Latin American vessels by linking them to the U.S. fentanyl crisis. Yet according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), there is no evidence that any significant level of illegal fentanyl is produced in South America. UNODCโs global analysis, based on member state reporting and drug seizure data, shows that most illicit fentanyl enters the U.S. from Mexico, or is diverted from legal medical sources. To invoke Venezuela and its neighbors as scapegoats for the fentanyl epidemic is a deliberate distortionโan effort to mask imperialist aggression under the guise of โdrug control.โ
This aggression strikes hardest at the most vulnerable. Women, children, and marginalized genders bear disproportionate burdens when war and sanctions devastate communities.
As primary caregivers, Venezuelan women are forced to navigate food insecurity, collapsing healthcare, and displacement, while militarization heightens risks of gender-based violence. Yet women have also stood at the forefront of the Bolivarian Revolutionโorganizing grassroots resistance, sustaining social programs, and defending sovereignty. Their leadership embodies the resilience of the Venezuelan people and must be defended against imperialist erasure.
The attack on Venezuela is therefore not only an assault on national sovereignty, but also on the rights, dignity, and survival of women and marginalized communities who carry the heaviest weight of imperialist aggression.
We denounce this heinous act as part of the broader pattern of U.S. imperialism in Latin America and the Global South. From Iraq to Libya, from Afghanistan to Haiti, the United States has repeatedly cloaked its wars of conquest in the language of โfreedomโ and โsecurity,โ while leaving behind devastation, poverty, and instability. Venezuela now faces the same imperialist assault, with its women and marginalized communities enduring the sharpest consequences.
KILUSAN stands in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, the Bolivarian Revolution, and all nations resisting imperialist domination. We call on peoplesโ movements, governments, and international institutions to:
โ Condemn U.S. aggression and demand an immediate end to military operations against Venezuela.
โ Defend Venezuelaโs sovereignty and its right to control its own resources free from foreign intervention.
โ Expose the lies of regime change propaganda that seeks to delegitimize Venezuelaโs democratic institutions.
โ Center womenโs voices and leadership in solidarity efforts, recognizing the gendered impacts of war and sanctions.
โ Strengthen international solidarity among peoples resisting imperialism, neoliberal exploitation, and resource plunder.
The aggression against Venezuela is not an isolated actโit is a warning to all nations that dare to assert independence from U.S. hegemony. It is a reminder that imperialism will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on global resources and markets.
๐๐๐ง๐๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐.
The struggle for sovereignty, justice, gender equality, and liberation continues, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with Venezuela in this fight.
๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ค๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ (KILUSAN) / ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ -๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ
๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐ค๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ง ( ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐) / ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐
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