Maduro Govt calls for all-out mobilisation to defeat fascist fascist oligarchy
By Satyaki Chakraborty
In a repeat of George Bush’s Iraq invasion in 2003 on the basis of fake allegations, Donald Trump ordered invasion of Venezuela on early morning of January 3 beginning the New Year 2026 with the implementation of his National security strategy announced last month. Trump claimed that President Maduro and his wife have been captured by the U.S forces though the Venezuelan government is tightlipped on this.
The Venezuelan government ordered “all national defence plans to be implemented” and called for the people of the country to mobilise to fend off a “colonial war” aiming at regime change, in co-ordination with the “fascist oligarchy” that has always sought to reverse the Bolivarian revolution. Given the explicit threats of an attack from the US in recent months, Venezuela has distributed arms to popular militias around the country.
The Pentagon and White House have been tight-lipped about the attacks, with the main confirmation simply a Federal Aviation Authority warning to commercial aircraft to steer clear of the Latin American country because of “military activity.” Reports aired by some US broadcasters that US President Donald Trump has ordered a land invasion have not been confirmed. Reports indicated heavy bombing by the Americans on military installations as also in some other important cities apart from the capital Caracas.
Trump has built up a huge armada off Venezuela’s coast and carried out a lethal campaign of bombings against boats in the Caribbean, accusing them without evidence of smuggling drugs. Officially the US accuses the government of President Nicolas Maduro of being involved in drug-smuggling too, but in online rants the US leader has revealed his real aim is to restore US corporate control of the country’s oil reserves, the largest proven reserves on Earth. The US boarded and stole two oil tankers carrying Venezuelan crude last month.
Significantly only on Thursday, President Maduro proposed talks with Trump to sort out differences. Maduro has all along denied the allegations made by Trump about drugs being carried in Venezuelan ships but Trump used this as a ruse to invade Venezuela.
A recent National Security Strategy document released by the White House called on the United States to reassert the Monroe Doctrine — which calls for US dominance in the western hemisphere and the exclusion of all “non-hemispheric” powers from it. This means a policy of regime change in the Latin American countries which have governments not friendly to the USA. Venezuela has been the first target since Trump took over on January 20 last year.
In a statement soon after the US attack, the Venezuelan government called upon all social and political forces of the country to activate mobilisation plans and to repudiate this imperialist attack. The statement said that the people of Venezuela and their Bolivarian National Armed Force are in perfect coordination and they will be fully deployed to safeguard the sovereignty of the nation.
“At the same time, the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace will submit the corresponding complaints before the United Nations security council, the secretary-general of the United Nations, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, and the Non-Aligned Movement, demanding the condemnation of and accountability from the government of the United States”, the Venezuelan government mentioned.
According to the statement, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, condemns, and denounces before the international community the extremely grave military aggression carried out by the current Government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population, targeting both civilian and military locations in the city of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, as well as the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira.
This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, particularly Articles 1 and 2, which enshrine respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition of the use of force. Such aggression threatens international peace and stability, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, and places the lives of millions of people at serious risk, the statement said.
The objective of this attack is none other than the seizure of Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and mineral wealth, through an attempt to forcibly undermine the Nation’s political independence, the Venezuelan statement candidly pointed out.
In strict accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate self-defence in order to protect its people, its territory, and its independence. The Government called upon the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world to mobilise in active solidarity in the face of this imperial aggression.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly condemned the US attack and called upon United Nations and the Organisation of American States to intervene. All Left wing governments of Latin America are worried at this US invasion of Venezuela. If US succeeds in bringing about regime change in Venezuela, then no left regime in the region is safe. It will be seen how China and Russia which have good relations with President Maduro react to this invasion signalling a dangerous shift in Trump’s foreign policy. (IPA Service)
