The Local Organizing Committee of the “1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples” expresses its strongest repudiation of the aggression by the United States against the Venezuelan people, through the closure of Venezuela’s airspace and the implementation of a naval blockade of the country, while at the same time seizing ships and Venezuelan oil being transported to Cuba and to other countries.
Where is the cynical so-called “freedom of navigation,” proclaimed by the United States to justify the patrolling of all seas and oceans by its seven naval fleets?
Adding to this are attacks on Venezuelan civilian vessels and the summary execution of more than 80 Venezuelan citizens under the accusation—without any evidence—that they are “drug traffickers,” which constitutes extrajudicial killings of an extraterritorial nature.
No less serious is the authorization granted by the President of the United States to intelligence services and armed forces to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro and to carry out a so-called “regime change” in Venezuela.
It is also astonishing to hear statements by Donald Trump claiming that Venezuela’s oil and mineral wealth belong to the United States and will be taken by it.
This represents a neocolonial posture of plunder and pillage that flagrantly violates International Law, the UN Charter, the sovereignty of each country over its airspace, and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
It must be clarified that there is no declaration of war by the United States against Venezuela—something that can only be done through a decision of the U.S. Congress.
These open and illegal aggressions by the United States against Venezuela are carried out with the expectation that Venezuela will respond defensively, allowing the aggressor to portray itself as a “victim” and then attack by all possible means, creating a serious military conflict in the Americas, a region declared a Zone of Peace by its countries.
The newly released U.S. National Security Strategy makes it clear that the target is not Venezuela alone, but all of Latin America—considered the United States’ “backyard”—to be plundered on the basis of the notorious Monroe Doctrine, now updated with the so-called “Trump corollary.”
For all these reasons, we not only denounce and repudiate the U.S. aggression against the brotherly Venezuelan people, but we also call upon all exploited and oppressed peoples and nations to close ranks in their defense.
We further invite everyone to join the 1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples, to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from March 26 to 29, 2026, where we aim to build a broad global articulation of an antifascist and anti-imperialist character to better resist these aggressions.
Porto Alegre, December 19, 2025.
Local Organizing Committee of the 1st International Antifascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples
We are all Venezuela!
Trump, take your hands off Latin America!