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𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐭𝐬 𝐎𝐢𝐥
𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟎𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

𝐊𝐈𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐀𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚

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 aggression—an assault on the sovereignty, dignity, and self-determination of the Venezuelan people.

For decades, Venezuela’s vast oil reserves were monopolized by U.S. corporations such as Mobil and Exxon. This changed in 1999, when the first Bolivarian President, Hugo Chávez Frías, nationalized the oil industry, reclaiming Venezuela’s resources for its people. Since then, successive U.S. administrations have conspired to impose regime change, sabotage Venezuela’s economy, and undermine its democratic institutions—all in pursuit of “repossessing” 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 government’s aggression is not about democracy or human rights—it 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 Nicolás 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. UNODC’s 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 distortion—an effort to mask imperialist aggression under the guise of “drug control.”

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 Revolution—organizing 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 “freedom” and “security,” 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 peoples’ movements, governments, and international institutions to:

● Condemn U.S. aggression and demand an immediate end to military operations against Venezuela.

● Defend Venezuela’s sovereignty and its right to control its own resources free from foreign intervention.

● Expose the lies of regime change propaganda that seeks to delegitimize Venezuela’s democratic institutions.

● Center women’s voices and leadership in solidarity efforts, recognizing the gendered impacts of war and sanctions.

● Strengthen international solidarity among peoples resisting imperialism, neoliberal exploitation, and resource plunder.

The aggression against Venezuela is not an isolated act—it 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.

𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝.

The struggle for sovereignty, justice, gender equality, and liberation continues, and we stand shoulder to shoulder with Venezuela in this fight.

𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐲𝐚 (KILUSAN) / 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 -𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬

𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐤𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐚 𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐚 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐚𝐧 ( 𝐊𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐀 𝐊𝐀) / 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 - 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬