Statement LIS: Against the Yanky military siege to Venezuela and against the interventionist right
5/9/2025
Active international solidarity of the Latin American peoples and the world! No trust in Maduro!
The International Socialist League (LIS) and organizations that it groups together as Marea Socialista de Venezuela, Unite from Colombia and other colleagues from Latin America and the Caribbean, We strongly reject the imperialist military siege ordered by Trump against the Venezuelan nation, which at the same time is an extensive threat to all our countries in the region.
The excuse of fighting drug trafficking, that cannot be controlled within its own hyper-consuming country, in no way justifies the violation of Venezuelan sovereignty. The United States cannot have any prerogative to impose itself as an international gendarme over national sovereignties., of agreements between countries and multilateral treaties or conventions. The threatening actions off the coast of Venezuela and in the Caribbean, whether they are for intimidation, or as a possible prelude to an armed intervention, They obey exclusively the disastrous imperial interest of the United States to subjugate the Latin American and Caribbean peoples., to appropriate their resources and common goods, or to put and remove governments at will and pleasure. Latin America is not the “backyard” of Yankee imperialism.
We strongly repudiate the threats of imperialism and the rewards that Trump offers for helping to capture members of the Venezuelan government, which incidentally serve to victimize Maduro and invent “reasons” for more repression within the country or to take advantage of Venezuelan national sentiment in favor of the normalization of his regime.. The double attitude of the Trump government is also very suspicious, while it lays a maritime siege on Venezuela and attacks ships or kills its crew members. (absolutely illegitimate, extrajudicial and criminal), on the other hand, despite the unacceptable unilateral sanctions that have continued to be imposed on Venezuela, It does license the businesses of the North American transnational Chevron with the oil it extracts from Venezuelan soil without taxes or royalties..
Where throughout history the United States has intervened in an abusive and arbitrary manner., They have left things much worse for the people and have not contributed to solving the problems they used to justify their incursions or invasions., and in numerous cases the lie of their pretexts was demonstrated, as the “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq, false positives and self-provocations. This is exemplified by the situations of countries like Afghanistan where, after retiring, They left control again to the Taliban. In many other places his intervention caused more destruction, humanitarian crises, massacres, rights violations and chaos, like in Haiti, Iraq o Syria. Trump's intentions to reappropriate the Panama Canal are well known and it is well known that his military bases in Colombia have not really contributed to guaranteeing peace or the containment of the drug business..
The Venezuelan people are not going to be saved by naval forces or marines sent by magnate Donald Trump, who has already shown what Venezuelan migrants in the United States are to him, with expulsions and imprisonments without trial, confining them in the CECOT of El Salvador. A reactionary and anti-immigration policy that is also carried out against the human rights of workers and young people from different countries on our continent.. Nothing good can augur for Venezuela, neither for Colombia nor for any country in the region, the advance of interference or a possible occupation of the North American government and army in part of our Latin American territories. We repudiate all this imperialist and provocative actions, who is also a collaborator and accomplice of the genocidal Netanyahu in the extermination of the Palestinian people of Gaza, with plans as macabre and immoral as establishing tourist businesses for US capitalists or Trump himself together with the Zionists, over the corpses of Gazans and the ruins of their homes, schools or hospitals.
We are for the defense of Venezuela and any country attacked by imperialism, without this meaning that we support a government like Maduro's, that will not be able to consistently defend the country from a foreign power like the US, while at the same time subjecting the Venezuelan people to miserable conditions of hunger, calamities and violations of rights; while government bureaucracy embezzles public funds, holds gross privileges and commits vile abuses. The corrupt bureaucracy does not defend the people of Venezuela, but plunders it, oppresses him, exploits and represses it, for the benefit of their own affairs as a new oligarchy established in the country, who clings to their positions of power. They are the capitalist and counterrevolutionary policies of this government (not only imperialist sanctions and right-wing sabotage), which have led workers to actually lose almost all the constitutional and material benefits that were obtained between 1999 Y 2012, and today have the worst salary in the world, less than a dollar per month. A government like Maduro's cannot offer a credible and solid capacity to resist imperialism., while it is the government itself that attacks its people with more than miserable salaries and inflicts the most indolent mistreatment on them, as if the workers and the popular classes were an internal enemy.
The business community represented politically by the opposition right-wing parties, pro-imperialist and interventionist, although he disputes the direct administration of the State apparatus to the Maduro bureaucracy, simultaneously benefits and profits from anti-worker and anti-union policies, that allow the working class to be super-exploited with zero labor costs, as foreign transnational corporations also do., be North American, Europeans, Chinese or Russian. They take advantage of a government that rhetorically pretends to be “leftist” or “socialist”, but that has applied capitalist adjustment policies even more profound and terrible than the classic governments of the neoliberal right.
We are in favor of accompanying the unity of action of the Venezuelan people against North American interventionism, with all the solidarity possible at the international level and especially from Latin America and the peoples of the Caribbean, as well as migrants, the latinos, workers and progressive youth in the United States. But we do not grant any trust or support to the political regime that Maduro maintains with his government of the military and the PSUV bureaucracy..
The people that make up the constituent and original power, instead of being led into military confrontation with imperialism under the reins of an undemocratic government and bureaucratic or capitalist elites, can only exercise the effective defense of its national interests with will and high morality, but not submitted, hungry and oppressed. It needs to be organized with a political approach that is built collectively. In such a way, The people and the working class will be able to gather the energies that allow them to confront the threat that looms over Venezuela today.. Therefore, a response is needed that aims to mobilize the bulk of the Venezuelan people in a democratic manner., convincing, enthusiastic and sustainable, that cannot be left solely to the discretion of a highly questioned national government. That's why, to form the country's defensive framework, All anti-imperialist and popular voices must be heard with their proposals and full freedom of opinion and organization must be guaranteed without any type of restrictions.. In this way it may be possible, in the midst of this national contingency, the articulation between different political instances, social and struggle, to jointly forge in-depth solidarity and mobilization that allows us to contain and defeat the enemies of the sovereign nation.
Thus, at the same time that we accompany the resistance against imperialism and the extreme right complicit in interventionism, We continue to emphatically demand that the government cease the persecution and repression of working class fighters., to those who disagree and criticize the government trying to assert their democratic rights, whatever political sign they are. This includes in particular the dissident or opposition left., against which the Maduro government has been attacking more and more intensely.
We support the demand that the democratic and union rights of the working class and citizens in general be restored, convinced of the need to do so both for the fulfillment of rights and for a more effective defense against imperialism. This must be combined with the suppression of anti-constitutional laws and measures that are being implemented in favor of transnational capital., contrary to the interests of the people.
The United States does not want governments that agree with their economic and geopolitical enemies (China, Russia) and he also wants his most trusted politicians to govern, as María Corina Machado, Edmundo González and those parties of the traditional right, who have been promoting the intervention and of whom we are also fervent political and class opponents. We are for self-determination, for the integral and economic sovereignty of Venezuela. That your economy is not in the hands of capitalist exploiters nor is it managed by corrupt and authoritarian bureaucrats or soldiers who rob and subjugate the people.. We believe that Venezuela needs a government that promotes the development of prosperous and clean national public industries., not parasitized by bureaucracies or capital, that are under real social and democratic control, with worker participation, to guarantee its use at the service of the general well-being of the Venezuelan people, without subjection to any foreign power. Greater resources to confront the social emergency and the military threat could be released if the illegitimate and corrupt external debt contracted by the bureaucracy responsible for the country's embezzlement is stopped. (for which this debt should be submitted to a citizen audit, public and democratic). Y, on the other hand, should be recovered (with expropriations, repatriations or compensations) the funds and assets stolen by the plunder of bureaucratic-capitalist corruption.
From a principled position, our calling, so, It is still up to us to support the autonomous organization of the people's liberation struggle, without bosses and without imperialists, to get rid of the oppression of the corrupt and rights-violating bureaucracy.
At the international level we propose that the governments of our entire continent be required to, to issue statements calling for the immediate withdrawal of the US navy that patrols the coasts of Venezuela, as well as the suspension of any support for unilateral sanctions imposed by the US, thus rejecting the coercive measures of external powers that aggravate the humanitarian crisis, They harm the defense of the country and give the Venezuelan government excuses to “justify” its failures and outbursts.. Just as we also promote unitary actions in our countries to repudiate this actions and threat of the US government and all its political accomplices in the region..
We say: No to imperialist interventionism! No to the pro-imperialist politics of María Corina and other right-wing opponents!! No to the ruling authoritarianism and Maduro's bureaucracy! United and coordinated anti-imperialist defense in Venezuela, together with the people of the entire region, with democratic self-organization and without any trust in the Maduro regime.
Latin Americans and Caribbeans (including migrants in the US and Europe), with the solidarity of the people of the world, We must reject the US military threat off the coast of Venezuela or commercial and armed pressure on any other nation., without giving any support to the capitalist or bureaucratic governments of our countries.
For international solidarity with Venezuela and its people!, against the Yankee military siege and the pro-interventionist right!
