From the heart of imperialism Left Voice denounces Trump’s escalations and threats against Venezuela, the Caribbean and all of Latin America. We reject all military threats and build-up in the region, which, under the pretext of combating “drug cartels,” seeks to increase its political and military dominance in the region. This includes the recent deployment of 4,000 sailors and Marines and plans to build up military bases across the region including in Panama and Ecuador. U.S. troops out of Latin America and the Caribbean!
Venezuela is facing some of the most extreme threats from the Trump administration. The administration has put a bounty on the head of Nicolas Maduro, accusing him of being “one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world.” We do not support Maduro’s regime, which represses workers and popular sectors, like the mothers who have called for the release of their teenage sons imprisoned for protesting. However, the United States seeks to impose a servile government in Venezuela to deepen the imperialist subjugation of Latin America, with devastating consequences for workers and popular sectors. Imperialist hands off Venezuela!
We also denounce sanctions which have been one of the U.S. regime’s favored tools for attacking Venezuela. These sanctions have only deepened the longstanding economic and social crises in the country. It is the Venezuelan working class that suffers the most from the sanctions. The economic crises, exacerbated by U.S. sanctions also increases migration of Venezuelans to the United States. Trump then uses the bogeyman of migration to justify militarizing the region and demanding that governments throughout Latin America carry out U.S. policies against migrants. This is a vicious cycle of imperialist domination that spells disaster for all the people of the region. End all U.S. sanctions now! For the right to migrate and open borders!
As internationalists, we stand with the working class and popular sectors in Venezuela and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The United States has treated the region as its “backyard” since the Monroe Doctrine established a policy of Yankee domination in 1823. Faced with a weakening U.S. imperialism, Trump is trying to rebuild U.S. power with a renewed Monroe Doctrine. U.S. interference brings nothing but misery for the people of Latin America and the Caribbean. From the United States we will not be silent against these attacks. We are with our class siblings and all people struggling for sovereignty and against imperialism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and everywhere!
