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| Looming Possibility of Invasion of Venezuela Threatens the Hemisphere By James Patrick Jordan The US military build-up off the coast of Venezuela continues to escalate to frightening proportions. As of the afternoon of August 29, 2025, the US had already deployed “three destroyers, two landing dock ships, an amphibious assault ship, a cruiser and a littoral combat ship… either in the region or on their way.” That same night, “A U.S. guided-missile cruiser, USS Lake Erie, was seen crossing the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Caribbean….” In response, Venezuela has activated its popular militia and sent 15,000 troops to the border with Colombia. An international outcry could help tip the balance away from blockades, war, and intervention and towards peace. In a bold show of solidarity, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has sent 25,000 troops to his nation’s side of the border, posting on Twitter that, “Neither Colombia nor the Venezuelan opposition in Venezuela, nor any self-respecting Latin American, should solicit or rejoice in a foreign invasion of our soil. We Latin Americans and Caribbeans solve the problems of Latin Americans and Caribbeans. With Europe or North America or China or Africa, we discuss our common problems face to face and as human beings, not as servants.” Given the historic role that Colombia has played as the US’ top ally in Latin America, with a military that has been subservient to the Pentagon for decades, Petro’s actions are brave if risky. Already a right-wing city councilor in Bogotá has written a formal letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking for an international investigation of Petro’s links with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. The White House and Republican congresspersons have been hinting at actions to interfere in Colombia’s judicial processes to destabilize the Petro administration in a manner similar to its efforts in Brazil against President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva. The threat to Venezuela is a threat to all of Latin America in very concrete ways, unfolding in real time, minute by minute. By the time this alert begins to arrive in inboxes, the situation may have worsened in unforeseen ways. That is how urgent it is that we ACT NOW. On August 8, 2025, US President and would-be Emperor Donald Trump declared that, on the basis of the discredited and fake Drug War, the US reserved the option to engage in military action in any country, anywhere. The lies and hypocrisy behind the fake Drug War are far too extensive to chronicle here. But even a few highlights expose the lie. In the 1980s, for instance, the US government helped make possible the saturation of Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles with crack cocaine in order to raise funds for counterrevolutionaries in Nicaragua. The War on Drugs has been the primary source of funding for Prison Imperialism projects to spread the US mass incarceration model around the world. This includes financing for programs in Saudi Arabian prisons, even though the nation, by the US government’s own admission, has no appreciable role in narcotrafficking. The Alliance for Global Justice has traveled in the Naya region of Colombia where we passed by huge coca plantations that were interspersed with military checkpoints, and where we heard reports of the presence of US advisors. In a word, the entire world knows that the War on Drugs is fake. It is a justification for the expansion of the US Empire abroad, and for repression of democracy at home in the US. Based on this, we also know full well that the threatened invasion of Venezuela to impede alleged narcotrafficking is based on a lie. The US government is not trying to stop the flow of drugs. It wants to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation. If the US succeeds in attacking Venezuela, it will be the opening salvo of an aggression aimed at the whole of Latin America, a pretext for other invasions and violations of sovereignty. Across Latin America, the time has come for popular movements to rise up in defense of Venezuela. But what about in North America, what about in the United States? Obviously, we have to recognize our national responsibility for this threat which is taking place in our names and with our dollars. As military occupations of Los Angeles and Washington DC are underway with new occupations planned for Chicago, Baltimore, elsewhere, how can we apply ourselves to solidarity with Venezuela and Latin America when our own streets are under siege? That kind of thinking, while understandable, is nonetheless based on a false dichotomy. The parallel invasions and threats of invasions of US cities with Black mayors and Black/Brown majorities happens at the same time that the US is directly threatening and interfering in the sovereign affairs of nations of Latin America whose leaders defy the anti-democratic edicts of President Trump. Within and without our borders, we are all in a struggle to stop the spread of this new American fascism. That’s what the Drug War really is: a criminal war waged by the thieves of international fascism. When the international community stands up to fascism and US aggression abroad, it makes us stronger to do the same here at home. We in the US must understand that what we are witnessing here at home is a result of lessons learned abroad now being applied against our own people. Prison Imperialism, police and border militarization, judicial manipulation, the teaching of torture techniques at places like the School of the Americas in Columbus, Georgia and Fort Huachuca in Sierra Visita, Arizona—all of these are means by which the US has exported weapons, tactics, and strategies of repression in order to undermine popular movements and governments in other countries. In these countries, the tactics of repression were further developed in ways that could not have been easily implemented in the post civil-rights era US… until now. The US has developed new techniques to use against our own people that have been brought back from the “testing grounds” of Latin America. In the same way, we in the US must not only stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers abroad, but we must learn from them and apply to our resistance the many lessons they have to teach us. Likewise, as we resist the military occupation of our own US cities, we must educate about and show the connections to the threats toward Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia—to all of Latin America, indeed, to all of the Americas. We must make these connections at our rallies, in our publications, from our speakers podiums, in our graffiti, our zines, our poems and our songs. We are in this together, and only together can we win. Today we defend Los Angeles. Today we defend DC. Today we defend Chicago. And today, we defend Venezuela. Why? Because it is the same struggle—a struggle for peace and against Empire. |
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