In the early hours of today, the United States launched a “large-scale” assault against Venezuela, with airstrikes against several military and civilian targets in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, as well as in the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. Furthermore, Trump announced by a social media post that the United States had “captured” the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, and that they are being transported (on the USS Iwo Jima) to the U.S. The fascist U.S. Attorney General, Pamela Bondi, announced that charges have been filed against Maduro so that he can be tried in a New York court.

The United States has no right to disregard international law, bomb a country, and kidnap its president, as if they were the “world’s policeman.” The fact that the regime of Maduro, Diosdado Cabello [Venezuela Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace], and Vladimir Padrino [Venezuela Minister of Defense] does not represent anything positive for the Venezuelan people does not make a U.S. imperialist invasion legitimate or represent anything “good.”

This U.S. aggression against Venezuela is criminal and is a serious demonstration of the serious danger that the United States represents to the world, especially now under a fascist regime like Trump’s: It takes place after months of illegal bombings and serial extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean and Pacific waters, following recent U.S. attacks in Nigeria and open threats to launch new attacks against the reactionary Islamic Republic of Iran. This invasion against Venezuela is a demonstration not only of the imperialist character of the United States, but also of the fascist character of the regime that governs there today, and is another step in the consolidation of a fascist military, economic, and political bloc in Latin America that is a loyal vassal of U.S. interests.

It is urgent to strongly oppose this imperialist invasion and all imperialist moves by the United States. It is repugnant and criminal how sections of the right, both within Colombia (including directly [ex Colombian presidents] Uribe, Duque, and Pastrana) and in Latin America (the fascist-leaning presidents of Argentina, Javier Milei, and Ecuador, Daniel Noboa) are calling for this invasion to be celebrated as a “humanitarian intervention” or even, as former [Colombian] President Uribe stated, an act of “legitimate (self-)defense” on the part of the United States. This servile and pro-“national subjugation” position must be condemned and confronted. And although the discontent of a large section of the Venezuelan population with the Maduro regime is understandable, their desires for change are being used as an instrument to justify the criminal U.S. aggression and to install a regime loyal to Trump’s United States, with all the horror that this also means for the vast majority.

It is necessary to organize the broadest, deepest, and most determined anti-imperialist struggle, “we need to develop a movement that opposes any aggression by the United States against Venezuela, Colombia, or any other country, and to do this without taking sides with the imperialist interests of any of the contending imperialist powers, but rather by opposing the imperialist system as a whole. To forge such a movement, we must not ‘ignore what divides us’; we must grapple, using the right method and spirit, around the differences in viewpoints and programs, so that more and more people can become more conscious and identify programs that can only lead from one catastrophe to another, and instead embrace those programs that aim for a fundamentally different future.” [From the Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia: No U.S. Imperialist War Against Venezuela! No Imperialist Domination Over Latin America and the World!]

It is necessary for broad sections of the people in Colombia and other parts of the world to mobilize right now, condemning this imperialist aggression against Venezuela. We must mobilize a powerful force that opposes the plans of the U.S. imperialists to consolidate Latin America as their backyard, loyal to Trumpist fascism. “Now is the time to take on this inspiring challenge which enables us to unite in combating the ongoing crimes, and against the system that causes them, the capitalist imperialist system.”

U.S. OUT OF VENEZUELA!

IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!

THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND ILLEGITIMATE—WE NEED AND WE DEMAND A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LIVE, A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT SYSTEM!

TRUMP MUST GO NOW!!!

Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia | January 3, 2026