On January 21, representatives of mass movement organizations, political parties, and progressive groups from around 20 countries signed the Caracas Resolution.
The document reaffirms a commitment to support Venezuela and all peoples facing imperialist aggression by the United States.
The Resolution condemns “the United States’ brutal attack against Venezuelan sovereignty and the kidnapping of its lawful leader, President Nicolás Maduro, and First Lady Cilia Flores,” and pays tribute to the Venezuelan and Cuban “defenders” who lost their lives resisting this aggression. It also mourns the civilian victims.
It further points out that the conduct of the United States constitutes a “settler-colonial project,” and shows how the founding ideology of the United States and the “Monroe Doctrine” have expanded across the Americas and gradually to the entire world.
It defines the “Trump corollary” as a dangerous new phase of military belligerence seeking to dominate the Western Hemisphere in its entirety.”
Regarding the attack on Venezuela, the declaration states that it is “the latest assault as only the latest chapter in a long-standing hybrid war — fought with suffocating sanctions, naval blockades, mercenary assaults, and sabotage attempts — aimed at dismantling the Bolivarian Revolution launched by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by the Venezuelan people under the leadership of Nicolás Maduro and the the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.”
It adds that “As a movement towards socialism — historically the most powerful guarantor of sovereignty — the Bolivarian Revolution is targeted because of the threat its example poses to global capital.”
It also notes that “it is not just socialism that is under assault. National sovereignty is under attack everywhere,” pointing to imperialist aggressions in Palestine, Syria, the Sahel region, Iran, Honduras, and elsewhere.
It warns that imperialist violence “is not a sign of imperial strength, but rather a symptom of the sharpening and intractable crises of global capitalism,” and that its consequences also affect marginalized communities within the imperialist centers themselves.
Finally, it affirms support for “the right of all nations and peoples to defend their sovereignty from imperial aggression by all available means,” emphasizing this as “a decisive battle for humanity’s future,” and resolves to prepare movements to support such resistance.
