By Yldefonso Finol, Aporrea, on March 10, 2026.
I will not appeal to the lifeless papers of international law. Nicolás Maduro is a prisoner of war, as he himself declared in his first—and only—appearance before a Yankee court. He is the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, kidnapped along with his wife, Congresswoman Cilia Flores, during a premeditated and treacherous armed attack by the United States government, resulting in the deaths of a large number of people, the exact number of which has not yet been specified by official sources. We urge the publication of the exact names of the victims, heroes, and martyrs of this criminal attack, to whom a monument should be erected in their honor so that this and future generations will never forget them and will remember them with the pain and veneration they deserve. This unforgivable crime must be prosecuted as an act of terrorism, and its perpetrators and masterminds must be legitimately tried by our judiciary.
This is a paradox that in itself dismantles—as immoral—the trial that is intended to be brought against President Nicolás Maduro in an incompetent and invasive jurisdiction, strange and illegitimate, rigged and corrupting customary law, doctrine, and jurisprudence developed within the framework of the Resolutions, Declarations, Conventions, and Statutes of the United Nations; a necessary body, but mortally wounded by the uselessness into which it has been plunged by the arrogance of the hegemonic fanatics and extremists who govern the United States.
The first argument in Nicolás’s defense is the lack of moral authority of those who are holding him and seeking to try him. (And I will not dwell on debating the moral rot of that imperialist-Zionist society that I have described as the “Epstein Civilization”).
The violation of our sovereignty and the breach of the immunity of the Head of State through an act of war (not formally declared, although carried out in many forms for two decades) discredits the aggressor country, which, through invalid shortcuts, proclaims itself to be the persecutor and executioner rather than the judge. This sets a dangerous precedent in the concert of nations, derailing diplomatic practices, the right to equality of sovereign states, and the basic principles of peaceful coexistence, replacing them with barbarism, what American films call “the law of the West.”
At the root of the affront to Bolivarian dignity lies lies. The imperialist narrative against Venezuela has been relentless in its attacks on the person who embodies the emancipatory project built by the Bolivarian Revolution: Nicolás Maduro, the man chosen to continue the work of Commander Chávez. Let us remember that we are living through a process of global imperialist fascistization, and that the first weapon of the Nazi-fascist (Zionist) scourge is falsehood. The accusations that have been repeatedly hurled at President Maduro are all slanderous. Donald Trump, who acts like a dictator in his own country and aspires to do so throughout the world, refers to our President as a “narco-terrorist dictator,” and he is echoed by the anti-Bolivarian transnational media, the sepoy presidents summoned to Miami by the mustard “emperor” (plus a few invisible ones), and the rabid right-wingers everywhere.
Nicolás Maduro is a hard worker, a humble, decent, and generous person. He has never committed any crime, not even a minor offense. His career is easy to follow, because from a young age he was active in public life as a social activist in the slums of Caracas, where he played sports, learned music that he performed with his friends in youth groups, embraced socialist ideals, participated in popular movements for citizens’ rights, raised a family, became a trade unionist and democratic leader, promoted changes that the country demanded through peaceful means, became a member of parliament,
then was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1999 and is one of the fathers of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Nicolás is a politician who is open to dialogue, good-natured, and likes to cultivate friendships, as a good Venezuelan and Bolivarian;
He demonstrated this internationally as Foreign Minister, promoting opportunities for encounter between brotherly peoples and the consolidation of multilateral spaces where peace and cooperation prevailed, along with the preeminence of human rights and the preservation of life as the supreme value, instead of the wars and odious discrimination that continue to have followers in imperialism and neo-fascist mentalities.
As Constitutional President, he had to face successive aggressions orchestrated by the United States, neighboring oligarchies, and the pro-US right wing, which almost destroyed our economy with the hybrid mutant war they waged against us since the Obama Decree, and went so far as to attempt all forms of violence, including assassination. Even so, we rebuilt the productive fabric and social assistance for the most vulnerable sectors, despite the evil unleashed by our enemies: a gang of thieves who sold out their country.
They will never be able to show any evidence or serious proof of the false accusations they have made with the sole purpose of stigmatizing an innocent person in order to eliminate the revolutionary militant who stood in their way.
The world must know these truths. The United States has committed war crimes against Venezuela, as it has done against Cuba, and in a macabre alliance with Israel in Palestine, Lebanon, and now Iran.
The United States has no moral authority, institutional legitimacy, legal jurisdiction, or political reason to judge Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. The only thing that is appropriate is to return them safely to our homeland, to resume the dignified normality we deserve, in full compliance with the Constitution.
The extortionate blackmail, the delays and manipulations of the illegitimate process, the staging of dirty tricks with supposed “jurists” who are lackeys of the ICC, and the imposition of the “three-phase plan” of the Yankee pirates herald a time of confrontation that could take us back to the dilemmas of past centuries, which were only resolved by the clarity and heroism of our Liberators.