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Original article: Fuerzas populares condenan \u201cagresi\u00f3n militar\u201d de EE.UU. contra Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n Popular forces worldwide are condemning the \u00abmilitary aggression\u00bb perpetrated by the United States (U.S.) against Venezuela<\/a>, asserting that the escalation of hostilities ordered by Donald Trump\u2019s administration is part of a renewed Global Monroe Doctrine aimed at dismantling the sovereignty and self-determination of nations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe, the popular forces around the globe, unequivocally denounce the increasing military aggression of the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,\u201d stated over 30 social organizations in a joint declaration.<\/p>\n They noted that Washington\u2019s offensive represents a new and dangerous phase of imperialist intervention that not only threatens the Venezuelan people but also jeopardizes the stability \u201cof the entire Western Hemisphere and the universal right of all nations to self-determination and economic and political sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n The statement recalled that two years ago marked the bicentennial of the so-called \u201cMonroe Doctrine,\u201d which was proclaimed in 1823 by the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe. This foreign policy aimed to oppose colonialism by European powers under the slogan \u201cAmerica for Americans\u201d and has been used by Washington for over 200 years as a justification for intervening in Latin American and Caribbean countries, primarily to protect its economic and commercial interests.<\/p>\n The progressive forces highlighted that \u201cwe are witnessing the renewal of the doctrine on a global scale: the emergence of a Global Monroe Doctrine,\u201d whose central logic endures, justifying the view that \u201cLatin America exists as a subordinate sphere, that sovereignty is conditional, and that any deviation will be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n According to these popular forces, this trend has expanded well beyond the Western Hemisphere as \u201cthe United States broadens its hegemonic reach.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe military architecture of the Global Monroe Doctrine extends across the planet. In Latin America, U.S. advanced bases in Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, Honduras, and the Caribbean pose a threat of dragging nations into a regional conflict. Like the more than 800 U.S. military bases globally, they function as material infrastructure for neocolonial control: settings for coups, training facilities for paramilitaries, and intelligence hubs for destabilizing progressive governments,\u201d they denounced.<\/p>\n The declaration reminded that in recent weeks, Washington has drastically increased its military presence in the Caribbean Sea, deploying warships, a submarine, combat aircraft, and troops off the coast of Venezuela. This action has been justified by the occupant of the White House under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.<\/p>\n Additionally, U.S. forces, acting on orders from Trump<\/a>, have carried out several bombings against alleged drug boats (without presenting evidence) in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, resulting in dozens of casualties.<\/p>\n The document states that the U.S. \u201chas deployed naval resources in the waters surrounding Venezuela, increased surveillance flights and intelligence operations, coordinated joint military exercises with regional allies, issued open threats of direct military intervention under the guise of antinarcotics operations, and even killed civilians in fishing boats from at least two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe pattern is unmistakable: U.S. imperialism is preparing for war,\u201d alerted the popular forces, while indicating that this escalation deepens a hybrid war campaign against Venezuela that has persisted for over two decades.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring that time, the Venezuelan people have faced widespread economic sanctions designed to impoverish the population and disintegrate the social fabric; sabotage of critical infrastructure; financing and coordination of violent opposition movements and coup attempts; confiscation of national assets abroad; and clandestine operations ranging from assassination plots to paramilitary incursions,\u201d they recalled.<\/p>\n In the organizations\u2019 view, the recent escalation starting last August is not about combating drug trafficking, as Trump claims, nor aimed at any particular leader.<\/p>\n \u201cImperial propaganda relentlessly personalizes and demonizes the movements for sovereignty. This attack targets the very Bolivarian project and the project of socialism in Latin America: the effort to redistribute wealth, challenge neoliberal orthodoxy, and assert independence from transnational capital,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n The declaration also pointed out that since the late president Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and the popular movements that brought him to power initiated the Bolivarian Revolution at the beginning of the millennium, Venezuela has shown that alternative futures are still possible: that oil wealth can fund social programs instead of foreign corporations and national oligarchies, that continental integration can be built on solidarity rather than domination, and that the descendants of colonized and enslaved peoples can exercise meaningful sovereignty over their territories and resources.<\/p>\n For this reason, they believe this threat extends beyond Venezuela and noted that, similar to the illegal blockade that the United States has maintained against Cuba for over six decades, as well as the economic and military aggression against Iran and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, these are part of a global strategy aimed at destroying the material basis of sovereignty in the Global South.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are not discrete conflicts, but cores of a single capitalist domination system on a global scale,\u201d they emphasized.<\/p>\n \u201cU.S. strategists describe this as \u2018strategic sequencing,\u2019 a method of staggered global confrontation designed to isolate and exhaust one center of resistance after another, preventing their consolidation into a unified anti-hegemonic block. It\u2019s a world war in slow motion. Any defeat of human liberation forces accelerates this global decline,\u201d they highlighted.<\/p>\n However, according to the popular forces, this logic can\u2014and must\u2014be questioned, and Latin America has already laid the groundwork to do so.<\/p>\n They indicated that in January 2014, in Havana, Cuba, during the second Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the region was declared a \u201czone of peace.\u201d This was to resolve conflicts through dialogue rather than force, respecting sovereignty and non-intervention, and building an alternative regional order based on cooperation rather than domination.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has never been more urgent to defend that vision against those who wish to reimpose the logic of military intervention and submission,\u201d they urged in the text.<\/p>\n \u201cFor this reason, the popular forces around the world declare our unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their revolutionary project, and our firm rejection of U.S. militarism. We demand the closure of U.S. military bases abroad, commit to organizing against imperialist aggression by all means at our disposal, and urge CELAC member states to maintain their commitment to continental peace, as the specter of war threatens to bury it for future generations,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n The following is a list of the organizations that signed the declaration:<\/p>\n *With information from Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nOpen Threats of Direct Military Intervention Against Venezuela<\/span><\/h3>\n
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