Proletarians of all countries, unite!

YANKEES GO HOME!
WE CONDEMN YANKEE IMPERIALISM AND THE PUPPET REGIME FOR THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE’S HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE!¹

We condemn Yankee imperialism, whose head is the genocidal Trump, for the new crime committed, in its condition as an occupying power, against the people of Venezuela, under the form of a violation of the norms of its own international law, Article 42 of the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding provisions applicable to occupied territories, by failing to provide prompt, timely, and efficient assistance to the disaster-stricken population during the emergency, thereby significantly increasing the number of deaths, injuries, and suffering among the victims of the natural disaster.

For the same reason mentioned above, we condemn, crush, and brand with fire the puppet government of Delcy Rodríguez and company, established by the American occupier. They are miserable traitors who do not represent the Venezuelan nation.

As a result of the imperialist war of aggression, the country is under foreign occupation or control; in this case, by the sole hegemonic imperialist superpower, Yankee imperialism. This is in accordance with its so-called “New National Security Strategy (NSS)” and the domination of the Western Hemisphere (“Donroe Doctrine”).

On January 3, after five months of war against Venezuela, Donald Trump announced that Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been captured in a military operation called “Absolute Resolve”, imposing a puppet regime on the country as a “transitional government” under his direct control as part of his three-stage plan–“stabilization, reconstruction, and democratic transition”–A puppet government presided over by Delcy Rodríguez, with Cabello, Padrino, and Jorge Rodríguez, among others, serving as its main collaborationist authorities. On the country’s current status, we quote the following from an imperialist media outlet itself:

The U.S. takeover of Venezuela reflects the mechanics of the new age of empire, in which it has become increasingly unnecessary, inconvenient, expensive and illegal for great powers to declare formal occupations of small states. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrated, “the costs of occupation have gone up dramatically,” said Tom Long, a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick. As a result, powerful nations have found ways to establish control over other countries without explicitly laying claim to them.

This asymmetrical relationship has led observers to reach for familiar yet somehow anachronistic terms: Venezuela has been described as President Trump’s “puppet regime,” as his “colony,” as an American protectorate and client state. The economist Carlos Mendoza Potellá, a former adviser to the Venezuelan central bank, argues that the country has ceded its national sovereignty. “We are not a nation anymore,” he said. “We are a territory with some delegate administrators implementing decisions made abroad. Who decides? Emperor Trump, who has his proconsul Marco Rubio.”²

— The New York Times, “The Context: Is Venezuela a Colony Now? A Sovereign State? Modern Empires Rule in Ambiguity.”, Linda Kinstler, July 19, 2026

We do not condemn the imperialist occupier and its puppet government for failing to provide “humanitarian aid”, since such “aid” from the imperialists can never exist for any people.

We are denouncing them for war crimes because the Trump–Rubio duo, acting on behalf of the occupying power, has failed to fulfill its obligations to provide immediate and effective assistance to the people of Venezuela in the wake of the two devastating earthquakes that struck on June 24 of this year, resulting in 3,811 deaths and 16,740 injuries. According to projections by American media outlets themselves, there is a 44% probability that this figure will rise to 10,000 deaths. The failure to fulfill the obligations imposed by international law on the United States as the occupying power and on its puppet government is the direct cause of this natural disaster having turned into a humanitarian catastrophe of big proportions for the people of Venezuela.

The millions affected directly or indirectly, since that date, lack medical care, food, and water. From the facts made known by the press itself, it is abundantly clear that the people of Venezuela were abandoned as a consequence of the earthquake during the crucial first days, adding to the already existing catastrophic conditions to which that country is subjected by the exploitation and oppression of imperialism and its native lackeys in all the governments up to the present, by the crisis of decadent bureaucrat-capitalism, a situation aggravated by the sanctions imposed by the Yankee government since 2017. We quote the following from the BBC’s June 25 news summary:

“The rescuers can’t cope. They are pulling people out with their bare hands”. “They don’t have specialized machinery”. “We need help”. In La Guaira, rescue teams had not reached many areas of the state, which are full of people trapped and unable to be rescued because of a lack of resources. Firefighters and paramedics “have their hands tied”. Many of the survivors are arriving at hospitals that lack both the capacity and the basic supplies to treat them. “We are facing a desperate situation, and the hospitals in La Guaira are completely overwhelmed”, Dr. Franklin Rodríguez told the BBC. “There is a critical shortage of medicines and medical supplies. The health centers do not have the capacity to handle the enormous volume of people, and many remain trapped under the rubble”, he added.³

We also denounce that Yankee imperialism is using so-called “humanitarian aid” to justify the plunder of the country and its increased military occupation.

The U.S. Southern Command has deployed the amphibious ship USS Fort Lauderdale and the combat ship USS Billings in the port of La Guaira, in addition to helicopters and aircraft “that will support search and rescue operations.” And under the pretext of distributing aid, Marines have landed on the beaches of La Guaira, disguising a military landing operation behind a “civic operation.” In addition, 900 Yankee soldiers have stationed themselves at the Caracas airport, which they keep under the control of the U.S. Southern Command.

Major General Kevin Jarrard arrived in Caracas to coordinate the deployment of Department of Defense forces in the country. Puppet president Delcy Rodríguez also confirmed that she met with representatives of the Northern Command and that she received a telephone call from Trump and Rubio, who reiterated Washington’s support for the emergency efforts.

The American authorities are sending the announced $300 million in aid through groups such as the Red Cross, religious organizations, and the United Nations. This amount of “aid” announced by the Trump government is only a fraction of the $8 billion that it is estimated has been taken from Venezuela since January 3, 2026.

In the face of this situation that the proletariat and the people of Venezuela, the Venezuelan nation, are living through, we express to them our international solidarity and our full confidence and total support for the Maoists of that great country, who are living, working, and struggling together with the deep and profound masses to reconstitute their Communist Party as a militarized Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party, in order to raise the national resistance against imperialism and its puppet regime to People’s War, to put an end to the imperialist occupation, carry out the democratic revolution in Venezuela, and liberate themselves from the oppression of imperialism, bureaucrat-capitalism, and semi-feudalism.

Long live the Venezuelan people’s resistance against Yankee imperialism!

For the people’s war of national resistance against Yankee imperialism in Venezuela!

Peru People’s Movement
July 2026