By Manolo de los Santos on December 12, 2025
Defending Venezuela’s peace and sovereignty transcends a single nation. foto: Cubadebate
The growing threats against Venezuela are not an isolated policy, but a calculated move within a strategic campaign to dominate what US power has long called its “backyard.” This is the Monroe Doctrine reborn in the 21st century—imposed not only by decree, but through criminal sanctions that strangle economies, blockades that target medicine and food, media propaganda, and the mobilization of the largest naval fleet in decades.
Why this fury? Why now? Because Venezuela, along with Cuba and Nicaragua, dared to build projects of dignity and independence, breaking with a history of servitude. For an empire, the sovereignty of peoples is an unforgivable crime.
But the urgency points to a deeper and more global motive: panic in the face of a changing world. While China’s peaceful rise challenges the declining economic hegemony of the United States, Washington, using its military superiority, seeks to transform Latin America into a fortified bastion—a retaining wall and a platform for its new Cold War. They intend to recruit our region into their conflict, to turn our sovereignty into a bargaining chip in their struggle for domination.
This imperial war has a domestic front. The rise of Trump and the fascist right within the United States is the violent convulsion of an oligarchy terrified by decades of social progress—by the rights hard won by the working class, Black communities, women, and immigrants. Trump embodies a desperate attempt to reverse history: to restore the loosened chains of systemic racism, to unleash unlimited exploitation, and to silence dissent. It is capital waging war on its own people. It is fascism incubating in plain sight.
Therefore, defending Venezuela from Trump’s war machine is defending a fundamental principle: the right of peoples to self-determination. It is rejecting a world perpetually subjugated to US imperialism. It is confronting fascism not as a distant threat, but as a storm gathering and manifesting itself both abroad and at home.
Defending Venezuela’s peace and sovereignty transcends a single nation. It represents the front line of a war declared by a reactionary empire against the very possibility of a just world and a socialist future.
It is the trench that stands between humanity and barbarism, between dignity and humiliation, between independence and modernized slavery. Our actions here will decide the future of humanity.
Source: Cubadebate, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English