Aircraft carrier warship USS Gerald R Ford, the biggest in the world, after eleven strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying drugs in Venezuelan waters, which the US claims are trafficking drugs is now inching towards Venezuelan coast enroute Columbia. Earlier, eight US warships already patrolling the South American waters had blasted ten small boats and murdered over 40 crew members since last September on the pretext of frustrating narco-traffic, though the boats needed dozens of refueling to reach US shores. Now with the arrival of the USS Gerald Ford with 35 warplanes, the existing air bases in US-ruled Puerto Rico and massive military buildup in the Caribbean of 15,000 US troops, eight war ships, P-8 surveillance planes, F-35 jets, nuclear-capable B-52 bombers and nuclear submarines are reinforced. Does one need Darth Vader’s Death Star to stop speedboats? Surely not. Hence the US military movement is not for conducting counter-narcotics operations but is a signal of unspoken intent of orchestrating massive military operation to capture the sovereign wealth of Venezuela holding the world’s largest oil reserves. Columbia whose government is having fraternal relation with Venezuela is also on the radar. After invading Iraq, pulverizing Gaza, destabilizing Syria, the barrel of the imperialist gun of Pentagon regime is now turned towards Western hemisphere. US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has been openly calling for the military overthrow of President Maduro in Venezuela and the replacement of President Petro in Colombia.
Colombia is Also on Radar
Alongside Venezuela, the US imperialists continue to escalate threats and military pressure against Colombia as well since Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been one of the most outspoken defenders of Venezuela amid the latest bout of US aggression, condemning the US military attacks in the region. At the UN General Assembly in September, Petro said the passengers on the boats were not narco-traffickers but rather “poor young people from Latin America”. He went as far as to call for legal investigations against the US President for the extrajudicial killings.
US Strategy to Overturn Venezuela and Bolivarian Revolution
In fact, US imperialists have been nurturing a twenty-year project, and prime target is Venezuela whose government has been refusing to bend before US dictates. Their first strategy has been of economic strangulation, systematic isolation of the country from the global financial system, which has crippled its ability to trade with others, virtually frozen access foreign currency and forbidden import of essential goods like food and medicine. Next was a strategy of naked intervention in the internal affairs of another country by planting agents to orchestrate coups, creation of a parallel, US-anointed “government”. By recognizing a self-declared interim president and attempting to seize Venezuela’s international assets—including its US-based refiner Citgo—the Pentagon rulers sought to create a political reality through fiat. This gambit, which ultimately failed to dislodge Maduro, was accompanied by liberal funding and promotion of a so called opposition faction to engineer coups, tamper elections to orchestrate regime change and undermine moderate elements that might seek a negotiated settlement.
The third one is of course a military operation. President Trump himself is on record to have said that he was considering land attacks and had authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela. Rex Tillerson, former US Secretary of State (and former CEO of ExxonMobil) visited Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Jamaica from February 1 to 7, 2018, i.e. during the first term of presidentship of Donald Trump, with the objective of ensuring that these regimes would side with US against ‘Bolivarian’ Venezuela. He also commented: “It is often times that the military is the agent of change when things are so bad, and the leadership can no longer serve the people”.
Venezuela has not Cringed
But Venezuela has not cowered. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated in no uncertain a term that “The peace we want is not just any peace…it is not the peace of the ruins of Gaza. …do you want to be slaves of US supremacists, for us to lose our freedoms and for them to come and treat us like they treat migrants in the US, with kicks and bullets? …Do you want us to become a colony again and for them to dictate everything and for them to come and steal our oil and our riches? Neither slaves nor colony: free, sovereign, and independent, today, tomorrow, and forever.”
Flag of Anti-Imperialism Held High
In fact, departed Hugo Chavez who was President of Venezuela from 1998 to 2013 and founded the clandestine anti-imperialist Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR 200) in the early 1980s against pro US imperialist regime of Carlos Andrés Pérez, had instilled and strengthened an anti-imperialist especially anti-US imperialist, “fighting spirit” among a significant section of the Venezuelan population. His approach, known as “Chavismo,” was built on a foundation of Bolivarianism (named after Simon Bolivar who launched independence movement in Latin America) and, which explicitly opposed US hegemony and neo colonial moves in Latin America. He was elected Venezuelan President four times and was hailed as undisputed nationalist leader of Venezuela. Even after his demise, “Chavismo” continued to invigorate Venezuelan people in fight against imperialist machinations of US and its allies. Two important elections in Venezuela in 2017 showed mass support for the anti-imperialist line of President Hugo Chávez. Nicolás Maduro Moros, a staunch follower of Hugo Chavez has been occupying the Presidential seat of Venezuela since 2013. N-number of attempts by the US imperialists, and their stooge monopolists of Venezuela, like orchestrating coups, inciting civil war, decrying election results as rigged etc., to dethrone Maduro have proved abortive. In the lead-up to the Venezuelan presidential election on 20 May 2018, the United States put as much pressure as it could on the people of that country to reject the sitting government. US agent Leopoldo López, the so called Venezuelan rebel leader and a vocal critic of Nicolás Maduro government who had fled the country in 2020 and is now exiled in Spain, expressed his full support for the deployment of US ships in the Caribbean ostensively to attack Venezuela.
US Imperialism and its Political Managers Vend Utter Falsehood with Élan
As we know that the US presidents like George Bush and now Donald Trump has unleashed a series of lies and falsehoods to buttress the imperialist interest of his mentors, the US monopolists and multi-nationals. The US corporate media once had attacked the Venezuelan government by reporting that 130 people were killed in anti government demonstrations in 2024. That completely distorted the fact that fascist gangs killed pro government people and most of the fatalities were supporters of the present Madura government. Trump is accusing Venezuela of drug production. But Venezuela does not produce cocaine leaves. So far, the US has not produced any evidence that the Venezuelan boats it has targeted were carrying drugs, Furthermore, experts say that most drugs are smuggled into the US via the Mexican land border by US citizens only. So, US allegation of drug-peddling by Venezuela is a manufactured allegation just like the way, former US President George Bush annexed sovereign Iraq on the fraudulent pretext of it being a hub of weapons of mass destruction. George Bush and his administration later acknowledged that the specific pre-war intelligence regarding active weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stockpiles was incorrect. But he did not admit the war of invasion launched by him on Iraq that killed over 4 lakh innocent citizens and razed the country into rabbles, was a mistake, if not a crime, or that the intelligence was intentionally falsified.
It also bears recall that in March 2019, John Robert Bolton II, former national security adviser had admitted that US had heavily invested in political outcomes in Venezuela and has” a lot at stake” in Venezuela’s political crisis, specifically citing the country’s oil and the economic benefit it could bring to the US. In a separate interview on US television Fox Business, Bolton said that getting rid of Maduro was paramount since he was bringing “countries with interests hostile to ours” into Venezuela and ousting him would be a “potential major step forward” for “business” opportunities in the region.
Plot is Unmasked
So, the plot is fully unmasked. The foundational motive was laid bare with shocking candour by a top adviser to President Trump: the US is “heavily invested in political outcomes in Caracas (Venezuelan capital city)” and focused on Venezuela’s “vast oil reserves.” This was not a secret; it was a confirmation. Since Hugo Chávez renationalized the oil industry and redirected its revenues toward social programmes, Venezuela has been marked for “correction” at gunpoint. The goal is the reversal of the policy of resource nationalization of the present Venezuelan government and the restoration of a neocolonial economic model, where the profits from a nation’s subsoil flow to international shareholders rather than its own citizens. The legal and humanitarian justifications crumble upon inspection. International law, specifically the UN Charter, strictly prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity of another state. The “drug interdiction” pretext is a legal fiction, a thin cover for what is unambiguously an intimidation.
Farce of Awarding Nobel Peace Prize to a US-loyalist
But to everyone’s dismay, when peace is being sacrificed on the altar of rank war cry, the Nobel Peace prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a loyalist of US imperialist regime who has been an apologist of foreign intervention against the elected Nicholas Maduro government. It is not a mere coincidence; it is a glaring imperialist wizardry that turns black into white. Very few might have heard her name as a bete noir of President Maduro whom she calls a narco dictator. She also said that she wanted him to be alive so that she could send him to jail when elected in his place. In 2025, The Wall Street Journal wrote that she often advocated for US imperialist rule to confront the Venezuelan government more forcefully. Others are suspicious of her ties to reactionary right-wing politicians such as Trump and Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, and her support for Trump’s widely discredited claim that a Venezuelan gang, the Tren de Aragua – has launched an “invasion” of the US. She drew criticism over her past posts on X, supporting Israel’s military action in Gaza and urging Argentina and Israel to “dismantle” the criminal Venezuelan regime. Machado has also voiced support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zionist government, and has said that, if President, elected she Venezuelan would move Venezuela’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem–a move that would align Venezuela with US. Bjornar Moxnes, a Norwegian lawmaker, pointed out that Machado had signed a cooperation document with Israel’s Likud party in 2020. The Likud party is responsible for the “Gaza genocide” and therefore the award is not in line with Nobel’s purpose, he said.
By describing a person belonging to the pro-interventionist faction of the Venezuelan opposition and aligned with the most virulent, war-monger US and its cohorts as a “brave and committed champion of peace” and elevating her to the status of Nobel Peace prize winner, the Nobel Committee has exposed how it has become a puppet in the hands of the US-led imperialist bloc.
Why is US Imperialism so Unbridled in International Gangsterism
The giant US warship, steaming off the coast of Venezuela, is a symbol of an order that believes sovereignty can be vetoed by brute military power and that resources can be seized through economic torment. This order–dying imperialism-capitalism has nothing to offer to mankind other than death, deprivation, destruction, misery, penury and inhumanness. But the point to be pondered over is that why are the imperialist sharks so unbridled in pursuing their hegemonism, overlordism, invasion of foreign land, genocide and reviled interference in the internal affairs of other countries? It is because the mighty socialist bloc which hitherto acted as bulwark against imperialist war machination and brigandage is absent and the desired surge of worldwide well organized, well-coordinated anti imperialist movement is in its infancy.
Let there be no doubt that after ravaging Palestine, this imminent dastardly attack on Venezuela is an attack on the entire humanity and has to be repelled by way of rousing powerful worldwide protest against the intrigues and felonious acts by the US imperialists and their cohorts.
We call upon the anti imperialist peace-loving people of all countries to raise united voice against these self-appointed gendarmes and extend fullest solidarity with the Venezuelan people in protecting their sovereignty. We also urge upon the people of US to staunchly oppose the US machination in Venezuela and other countries and consider this as a part of their own fight against gross injustice and death merchants. To stand with that principle is the urgent task of all internationalists today.
