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Trump, the imperialist pirate, mastermind of kidnapping’s geopolitics !
The US has just illegally bombed a sovereign country and kidnapped its elected president and his wife!
« Sheriff »Trump’s second term is the pinnacle of US imperialism. The capture of Nicolás Maduro is an unprecedented red line crossed, even in light of the abject and long history of north american aggression in Latin America. The Monroe Doctrine, from the US perspective, defined Latin America as the United States’ backyard, the région the US supposedly may have any right. While coups and acts of treachery have certainly been numerous and heinous for two hundred years, from the Bay of Pigs to the Pinochet dictatorship, such an operation of kidnapping and piracy is astounding.
General Noriega, at that time leader of Panama, was arrested in 1989 to face trial in the US, but he was a puppet of the yankees who had decided to circumvent the process. Here, however, it is an elected president with an anti-imperialist stance, whose regime supports Cuba, who is being targeted by a kidnapping outside the bounds of international law. The operation of January 3, 2026, is therefore a historic act of political hegemony with incalculable consequences.
Maduro was indicted for “drug trafficking” in 2020 at Trump’s behest, an absurd pretext that poorly masks the real stakes surrounding Venezuela’s colossal oil reserves. Today, the US is pursuing several intolerable objectives. The first is obviously to overthrow a state whose population brought to power a socialist political regime against US imperialism, nationalizing the majority of the country’s oil fields. Since 1999, the Bolivarian Revolution has inspired similar movements in Latin America. The second objective is, of course, to overthrow another socialist regime that has been resisting the US for even longer, and that country is, of course, Cuba. The aim of the American hawks is to force all the American continent’s countries and peoples to submit to their will, by any means necessary, even if completely illegal.
We must also denounce the political and media hypocrisy in France and Europe, that hardly condemn this operation while simultaneously have been complicit in all destabilization efforts in Venezuela for the past twenty-five years. Neither the EU nor France has ever uttered a single word of criticism against this approach. Nor has there been any protest in recent months regarding the bombings of alleged drug traffickers without any evidence being presented, or when Trump promised $50 millions for Maduro’s arrest. From this perspective, Macron’s shameful reaction demonstrates France’s complete complicity. The recent propaganda surrounding Nobel Peace Prize laureate Marina Corina Machado, which downplayed her far-right leanings, was part of the same ideological offensive that led to the kidnapping of President Maduro.
Certainly, methods used in this crime are crude, and that’s nothing new. Maduro is not a drug trafficker, just as there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq. Yankee imperialists are liars, but not only that. Unlike his predecessors, Trump and his cronies don’t even try to pretend. They couldn’t care less about the rules of international law and make no attempt to hide it. And it’s crucial to understand that, from this perspective, Maduro’s abduction plunges the world into the unknown. The President of the United States has definitively undermined the West’s credibility in upholding the principles of multilateralism and international law. Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine and asserted that the United States would “lead Venezuela.” This opens the door to a new paradigm in international relations. We have now fully entered the era of might makes right, with no further reference to international law or multilateralism.
The Val-de-Marne Departmental Union of the CGT condemns US imperialism and offers its full support to the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Revolution.
