The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) issued a statement strongly condemning recent U.S. military actions in the Caribbean, denouncing them as acts of aggression aimed at Venezuela and the wider Latin American and Caribbean region. The party warns that these operations, carried out under the guise of anti-drug efforts, threaten national sovereignty and regional stability, while also calling attention to Venezuela’s internal political and social crisis.
The statement (here in Spanish) of the PCV reads:
"The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) condemns the U.S. military incursion in the Caribbean, presented under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, but really aimed at threatening and militarily pressuring Venezuela.
In this context, the PCV denounces the attacks against two boats in Caribbean waters, which so far have resulted in 14 deaths, carried out by summary execution and without evidence supporting their supposed association with drug trafficking networks. These extrajudicial and extraterritorial executions represent a crime against humanity that must be investigated urgently.
This aggression, initially irresponsibly denied by spokespeople of the government leadership, represents a dangerous provocation and an open violation of international law. Added to this are espionage flights over Venezuelan territory, part of the intimidation and military control strategy deployed by the United States in the region.
The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean have historically been victims of U.S. interference under the “Monroe Doctrine.” Washington has considered the region its “backyard,” with the objective of seizing its resources and maintaining geostrategic control, at the expense of the sovereignty, unity, and development of our peoples.
This warlike escalation confirms the interventionist nature of the U.S., which during the 20th and 21st centuries has carried out invasions, imposed dictatorships, promoted criminal plans such as Operation Condor and Plan Colombia, enforced blockades like the one that suffocates Cuba, established dozens of military bases, and reactivated the Fourth Fleet to reinforce its dominance in the region.
The military deployment against Venezuela seeks to guarantee the interests of U.S. monopolies in its dispute with emerging powers, by pressuring Nicolás Maduro’s administration to continue granting privileges and concessions to U.S. capital — like those already conceded to Chevron — or even to force a fracture in the regime and enable the ascent to power of its lapdogs, represented by figures such as María Corina Machado, who insist on a military intervention agenda and criminal sanctions, irresponsibly promoting the idea that Venezuela constitutes a threat to hemispheric security.
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan people suffer a deep political, economic, and social crisis caused by the antipopular and anti-worker policies of the PSUV leadership, which have impoverished workers with miserable wages and pensions, reduced to bonuses with no bearing on labor rights, in addition to persecution, repression, and criminalization of union leaders, political and social activists, as well as human rights defenders and journalists.
The PCV holds that any call for “national unity” demands the full restoration of democratic freedoms, the release of those unjustly detained, the cessation of persecution against the labor movement, the reversal of judicialization of political parties, the amnesty of those imprisoned for struggling, and the renewal of the National Electoral Council to call new elections.
In the face of a possible scenario of occupation of Venezuelan territory by foreign military forces, the PCV warns that this would imply a radical change in its political tactic. Under such circumstances, the party will assume the forms of organization that defending the interests of the Venezuelan people and homeland require.
The Communist Party of Venezuela calls on the Venezuelan people and forces that are genuinely democratic, popular, and revolutionary to mobilize united for the restoration of democratic freedoms, popular sovereignty, and the defense of national sovereignty, in the face of U.S. imperialism and its European allies."
In this context, the PCV denounces the attacks against two boats in Caribbean waters, which so far have resulted in 14 deaths, carried out by summary execution and without evidence supporting their supposed association with drug trafficking networks. These extrajudicial and extraterritorial executions represent a crime against humanity that must be investigated urgently.
This aggression, initially irresponsibly denied by spokespeople of the government leadership, represents a dangerous provocation and an open violation of international law. Added to this are espionage flights over Venezuelan territory, part of the intimidation and military control strategy deployed by the United States in the region.
The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean have historically been victims of U.S. interference under the “Monroe Doctrine.” Washington has considered the region its “backyard,” with the objective of seizing its resources and maintaining geostrategic control, at the expense of the sovereignty, unity, and development of our peoples.
This warlike escalation confirms the interventionist nature of the U.S., which during the 20th and 21st centuries has carried out invasions, imposed dictatorships, promoted criminal plans such as Operation Condor and Plan Colombia, enforced blockades like the one that suffocates Cuba, established dozens of military bases, and reactivated the Fourth Fleet to reinforce its dominance in the region.
The military deployment against Venezuela seeks to guarantee the interests of U.S. monopolies in its dispute with emerging powers, by pressuring Nicolás Maduro’s administration to continue granting privileges and concessions to U.S. capital — like those already conceded to Chevron — or even to force a fracture in the regime and enable the ascent to power of its lapdogs, represented by figures such as María Corina Machado, who insist on a military intervention agenda and criminal sanctions, irresponsibly promoting the idea that Venezuela constitutes a threat to hemispheric security.
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan people suffer a deep political, economic, and social crisis caused by the antipopular and anti-worker policies of the PSUV leadership, which have impoverished workers with miserable wages and pensions, reduced to bonuses with no bearing on labor rights, in addition to persecution, repression, and criminalization of union leaders, political and social activists, as well as human rights defenders and journalists.
The PCV holds that any call for “national unity” demands the full restoration of democratic freedoms, the release of those unjustly detained, the cessation of persecution against the labor movement, the reversal of judicialization of political parties, the amnesty of those imprisoned for struggling, and the renewal of the National Electoral Council to call new elections.
In the face of a possible scenario of occupation of Venezuelan territory by foreign military forces, the PCV warns that this would imply a radical change in its political tactic. Under such circumstances, the party will assume the forms of organization that defending the interests of the Venezuelan people and homeland require.
The Communist Party of Venezuela calls on the Venezuelan people and forces that are genuinely democratic, popular, and revolutionary to mobilize united for the restoration of democratic freedoms, popular sovereignty, and the defense of national sovereignty, in the face of U.S. imperialism and its European allies."
