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This statatement of the Coordinating Committee of Popular Struggles and ¡UNÍOS! was distributed on October 30 in Medellín during the teachers’ strike march and continues to be disseminated as an activity to denounce the U.S. aggression against Venezuela and the peoples of the Caribbean and South America. Today the victims have increased and we must reinforce the struggle against U.S. military aggression that must find a mobilized response from Colombians and the workers of the world.

Originally published in https://eltrabajadorsocialista.org/centroamerica/.

The working people suffer the consequences of a system of imperialist domination that sucks more and more of our wealth in exchange for conditions of poverty, hunger, unemployment, lack of access to housing, land, work, education, transportation, among other unsatisfied needs.

In order to deepen its domination, U.S. imperialism continues to escalate its militarization in Latin America as part of its plans for military intervention in Venezuela and for greater control and consolidation of its domination in the region, which it considers “its backyard”. Through a false flag of “war on drugs” or with the excuse of the “fight against drug trafficking” (which it propagates through all the media) it shamelessly justifies its plans of aggression, oppression and plunder. U.S. imperialism has been using this facade since the 1980s to justify its military intervention in different countries of the world.

Under this mask, in July, the reactionary Trump pointed to Maduro as “leader of the narco-terrorist organization “Cartel de los Soles” and last week he pointed to Petro as “leader of drug trafficking” added to the blackmail and attack on national sovereignty by imposing new tariffs and withdrawing financial “aid” pressuring Colombia to support a military invasion of Venezuela.

As part of the same imperialist hoax, nothing more paradoxical than awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, who begs Trump on her knees for military intervention in her country. The ultra-right in Colombia shamelessly supports Trump’s discourse, his interference plans and violation of national sovereignty in Colombia and Venezuela, as Uribe had already said in January, when he requested an international military intervention in Venezuela.

Under this strategy, it has deployed a militarization of the Caribbean Sea not seen since 1989 when the military invasion of Panama took place. The high deployment of a war fleet in the southern Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela consisting of: more than 4,000 soldiers and 6,000 US Marines, 8 warships (destroyers, amphibious assault ships) equipped with helicopters and missiles, a nuclear submarine (capable of carrying and launching cruise missiles), a variety of aircraft and drones that have flown over the area and are on landing strips in Puerto Rico. With this, the US is threatening military intervention in Venezuela.

But this is not just a display of force or a simple threat. The U.S. Navy in less than two months has carried out 12 indiscriminate bombings of ships in the Caribbean and Pacific under the alleged accusation of being involved with drug trafficking, attacks that have been considered extrajudicial executions, in which 47 people have been killed without any proof of having committed a crime, without any process, detention or trial. One of the people killed in the September 15 bombing was a Colombian fisherman from Santa Marta, when his wife was interviewed she stated: “They (the fishermen) have the right to life”. Another example of these arbitrary attacks is that one of the survivors of the bombings was repatriated to Ecuador and released because no evidence was found to charge him with any crime. Overriding its own bourgeois legislation, where drug trafficking is not punishable by death, U.S. imperialism freely bombs wherever it sees a “threat” to its interests.

Another fact that shows the advance of their interventionist plans in Venezuela is that in mid-October the confirmation came to public light that the ultra-reactionary Donald Trump authorized the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) to carry out covert operations inside Venezuela and the possibility of carrying out ground operations there. The United States through the CIA has carried out interventions in Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Brazil, Panama, Grenada and Venezuela. And it has been a promoter of reactionary and anti-communist paramilitary groups that have facilitated the internationalization of drug trafficking.

But, what are the real interests of U.S. imperialism? On the one hand, to have greater control over the natural resources of Venezuela (the largest oil reserve in the world, the tenth largest gas reserve, the largest gold reserve in Latin America, among other mineral wealth) and Latin America, in competition with other powers such as Russia and China. The United States, in the midst of its current acute crisis, needs to push for greater plunder and subjugation, to have absolute dominion over its backyard, not allowing other powers to continue gaining ground. In the words of Laura Richardson, former head of the U.S. Southern Command, “I will say that we are engaged in a strategic competition in the Western Hemisphere with the People’s Republic of China and Russia… Latin America is a priority because of its strategic resources – lithium, water, rare earths, copper, gold and oil“. On the other hand, the increased militarization in the region serves the Yankees to contain the popular struggles and rebellions in South America, a convulsive region with constant mass uprisings such as the latest protests in Panama, Peru and Ecuador and the containment of the agrarian revolution that is gaining more and more strength in the peasant movement in Brazil. The so-called war on drugs and the discourse of U.S. imperialism’s fight against drug trafficking is an excuse for the war against the people, the greatest national oppression and the violation of the sovereignty of our countries.

We express our profound rejection of the escalation of aggression by Yankee imperialism against the brotherly people of Venezuela, we do not believe in their worn out farce of the war on drugs, even more so when the biggest drug lords are the Yankees and their financial system that benefit, among others, from the immense money laundering (US banks have annual profits of at least 25.8 billion dollars thanks to the money from drug trafficking). The war on drugs is in truth an excuse for their war against the people and for the further subjugation of our nations in the vain attempt to alleviate the irremediable crisis suffered by imperialism and to contain the just rebellion of the masses.

We express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people, we reject the blackmail and attacks of the murderous Yankee Trump against our country, Latin America and the world. We call on all democratic, progressive, anti-imperialist forces worldwide, social, trade union, political movements and the peoples in general, to strengthen internationalist solidarity and the anti-imperialist struggle.

We must unite against imperialist aggression and its plans of plunder and domination.

Murderous imperialism, out of Palestine, Venezuela, Latin America and the whole world!
Out with the US military bases in Colombia!
Long live the anti-imperialist struggle!
Let’s build a front of struggle against imperialism!
Yankees, go home!

Coordinating Committee of Popular Struggles
¡UNÍOS! – Workers and Socialist Unity

October – 2025