REJECTION OF THE MILITARY AGGRESSION AND THE IMPERIALIST OFFENSIVE!
NO TO THE NEOCOLONIAL COLLABORATION OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION!
DEMOCRATIC LIBERTIES TO FIGHT AGAINST NEOCOLONIAL INTENTIONS AND FOR ALL THE RIGHTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE!

The organizations that make up the National Meeting in Defense of the People´s Rights and other anti-imperialist currents, from a position of class independence and independence from any other factor of oppressive power, we position ourselves before the grave situation that our country is experiencing after the criminal attacks perpetrated by the United States and the Donald Trump administration on Venezuelan soil. We assume the defense of the right of self-determination of Venezuela and national sovereignty. We call to reject the military aggression and imperialist offensive against the country.

1. Condemnation of the vile U.S. military aggression on Venezuelan soil

We express our most categorical repudiation of the bombings carried out by the Donald Trump administration in the early hours of the morning over Caracas and several areas of the national territory on January 3. We denounce this action as a flagrant violation of sovereignty, a criminal aggression against the Venezuelan people whose consequence is being translated into the imposition of a government under imperialist tutelage in Venezuela, whose mission is to impose a colonial agenda on the nation, our oil and strategic resources.

The widespread military attack against the country, with the murder of an estimated one hundred people, including military and civilians, is the continuity and highest point of a systematic imperialist aggression that ranges from the various measures of coercion (“sanctions”) over many years, to the military siege in the Caribbean, with the bombings and cold-blooded murders at sea. They are part of an agenda of continental domination, in the resurgence of the nefarious “Monroe Doctrine”, which claims the right of the United States to impose its interests on the peoples of the continent, as an asset in its competition with other powers. The attack and national subjugation against Venezuela is thus being used as an example to intimidate other countries in the region.

We stand in solidarity with the families of those who died as victims of the aggression, as well as with those affected by the destruction of their homes or the structures of State institutions. We also sympathize with those who were emotionally affected by the bombings.

We also express our solidarity to the communities of Fuerte Tiuna, El Hatillo, parishes El Paraíso, San Juan, 23 de Enero, sectors near La Carlota, and to the people of Caracas, Mirandino and La Guaira in general, who since that day have been living in confusion and anxiety due to the possibility of a new attack.

As organizations that oppose the Venezuelan government, we strongly repudiate the capitalist politicians who, from the pro-imperialist opposition, applaud the military aggression against the country and Trump’s plan of national subjugation. María Corina Machado, Leopoldo López, Antonio Ledezma and all those who have such a policy deserve the strongest rejection from the Venezuelan working people.

2. Rejection of the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.

Despite our profound political differences with the government, we reject the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores by foreign military forces. We demand official information and respect for their human rights, and their release, as we in no way grant imperialism the right to detain and judge a Venezuelan ruler, which is an exclusive right of our own people.

We demand respect for the principles of self-determination of the Venezuelan people. No foreign power has jurisdiction to act as “gendarme of the world” or to apply its laws extraterritorially on Venezuelan soil.

3. The Venezuelan people have the inalienable right to debate and decide their destiny.

With the brutal neocolonial offensive against the country, not only the destiny of a government is at stake, but also the present and the future of the Venezuelan people. The most elementary condition of a sovereign country is at stake. What is at stake is our national resources and the fruits of national labor will be managed in Washington from the offices of the President of the United States, in his meetings with U.S. and other countries’ tycoons. An unprecedented historical setback.

It is unacceptable that the working class, the youth and the popular sectors of the country are are being sidelined! We demand full democratic liberties to debate and fight against the insolent neocolonial intentions over the country. The right to hold assemblies free of coercion in the workplaces, places of study and in the communities, to debate the situation and determine the steps to respond to the intended national submission. Full rights to assemble and protest.

4. Our repudiation of imperialism comes from a truly democratic and leftist opposition to the Venezuelan government.

Our condemnation of the imperialist aggression does not imply political support for the leadership that has held power or for the collaborative tutelage government that was established after the U.S. intervention:

• The government has carried out a brutal economic adjustment that totally destroyed the rights that the working class won over years of struggle. On top of the drastic adjustment of the government to pay the foreign debt came afterwards the imperialist coercive measures (“sanctions”), which sought to strangle national economy, which was the already in crisis. Deepening the hardships, the government´s policies have unloaded the consequences of the whole crisis on the rights of the working class and the living conditions of the people, while on the other hand preserving the interests of foreign and domestic proprietary clases, generating ever greater social inequality: for the owners and bosses everything, for the workers nothing, that has been in fact the governmental logic. Therefore, it is urgent to rescue wages and pensions, restoring social benefits and the restitution of union and labor rights that have been taken away.
• We also question the persistent imprisonment of militant and non-militant people for political reasons. These repressive mechanisms used by the government contributed to deepen its authoritarian drift. Mechanisms that must be repealed, such as the Hate Law.
• The prisoners that are being released under imperialist pressure, merit the solidarity and mobilization of the people to accelerate this process and to grant full freedom to all released from prison.
• We demand the recognition of all the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people; therefore, the full release of political prisoners must be accelerated and the demands of their families, social and political organizations that have fought for their release must be met, and the pain caused to thousands of Venezuelan families who are facing this harsh and unjust situation must be alleviated.
• Arbitrary arrests and searches, forced disappearances and searches without warrants by police forces and vigilante groups must cease immediately.
• We denounce that there is an unacceptable opacity regarding the response of the national defense systems and the real impact (victims and damages) of the January 3 attacks. We demand the current government of Delcy Rodriguez to explain with full transparency the facts, as well as to inform the people about the identity of those killed in that criminal attack, and to report on the structural damages, their costs and estimates of the impact on the population.
• As an essential element, we demand that the minimum wage be restored as a right to the Venezuelan working class, as established in Article 91 of the CRBV, and other emergency measures to recover decent living conditions for the population as a whole.

5. We oppose any type of government under the tutelage of the United States.

Within the framework of the brutal attack and the imperialist military extortion, the Trump administration has been imposing drastic measures for its management of the country’s resources, which have been submissively accepted by the Venezuelan government. “Collaboration” and “cordiality” with imperialism are the guidelines proposed by the government of Delcy Rodriguez, facilitating the neocolonial advance, practically as a government under the tutelage of the United States to hand over our oil and other natural wealth of the country.

We reject any kind of cooperation with Washington’s impositions, from how they intend to impose on us the management of the national oil industry and the rest of Venezuela’s natural and energy resources, to the control of the national economy and international relations.

We warn about the subjection of the Venezuelan government with its collaboration and “cooperation” with Trump’s government to hand over our oil and other natural and energetic wealth of the country.

6. Call to the Venezuelan people and international solidarity to mobilize, a mass and internationalist response is necessary.

Trump arrogantly intends to pass over the Venezuelan people and their history of independence and anti-imperialist struggle, self-proclaiming himself “Interim President of Venezuela”, imposing abusive colonialist pressures on our nation.

Now more than ever we have the urgent and unpostponable need to work for the unity of the working class and the exploited Venezuelan people around their class interests, and for the rescue of national sovereignty.

The organization and mobilization of the people and the working class is essential to overcome the imperialist domination that is being imposed on us. That is why we must recover the possibility of holding assemblies and promoting spaces to assemble in which the Venezuelan people that clearly oppose interventionism participate, where what has happened is discussed, and where a series of demands are put forward to resolve the crisis from the popular sectors and the working class.

In these times we must prepare ourselves to develop different and effective forms of struggle in defense of national sovereignty and the rights of our people, denouncing and organizing ourselves against everything that implies the surrender of oil, mineral and natural resources or foreign tutelage.

Venezuela’s destiny should not be decided among negotiating leaders or under Washington’s impositions, but through the sovereign will of its people.

We call on the Venezuelan working people, the peoples of Latin America and the democratic forces of the world to demonstrate against this military aggression. The solution to the crisis must be working class and popular, rejecting both Trump’s neocolonial interventionism, as well as the continuity of a model that sustains and privileges the interests of businessmen of any national origin, of the rich and the new rich, by force of suppressing the economic, social and political rights of the working masses.

All of Latin America is under threat and our peoples must unite to confront and stop the U.S. invader, its new forms of colonization and the extension of its imperialist interests over Latin American nations.

We call for the broadest mobilization in Latin America and within the United States itself. In that sense we propose a great international mobilization capable of stopping imperialist aggression. We call on the youth, the working class and the progressive academics of the United States to resolutely oppose their own imperialism.

US imperialism out of Venezuela and Latin America!

Withdrawal of the US military siege from the coasts of Venezuela!

For full democratic liberties to fight against Trump’s neocolonial intentions and for all the rights of working people!

No to national surrender!

For the restitution of the rights of the working class!

Caracas, January 2026.

Partido Patria Para Todos, PPTAPR – Marea Socialista – Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV Dignidad – Partido Socialismo y Libertad – Liga de Trabajadores por el Socialismo – Revolución Comunista – Bloque Histórico Popular – Movimiento Popular Alternativo – Unidad Socialista de Los Trabajadores (UST) .