The actions were triggered exactly as anticipated: a coup de main executed under the cover of night and with total treachery. It was an operation directed against a legitimate government and a country that has never attacked another.
If anything dominates the U.S. war machine, it is precisely this type of incursion; they have vast experience and history offers plenty of examples.
Since the dawn of 2025, the White House significantly intensified its "maximum pressure" policy against Venezuela. The strategy shifted from economic warfare to military positioning and direct attacks on alleged drug shipments, all supported by large-scale intelligence operations.
The public justification for these actions changed: the worn-out discourse of "defending human rights and democracy" was replaced by accusations of narco-terrorism. With the construction of this narrative—which included a $50 million reward for President Nicolás Maduro and the invention of the Cartel of the Suns—the real motive behind the military deployment and the operation that was ultimately carried out was meant to be concealed.
However, the objective had been clear for days beforehand; the aggressor himself had declared it unabashedly: "we are going for Venezuela’s riches," "our oil," "our gold," "our lands."
Just minutes after the attack, which lasted about half an hour, U.S. President Donald Trump gave his first statements after having ordered the aggression against Venezuelan territory. With total arrogance and disregard for international legality, he took credit for the act of barbarism.
As the "fog of war" lifts, the details are revealed: they used electronic warfare devices to neutralize early warning radars and subsequently, low-flying helicopters from nearby bases carried out the mission. They attacked tactically important points with missiles, using some as a distraction for the main objective: the kidnapping of the president. The civilians killed will be added to Pentagon reports under the cold euphemism of "collateral damage."
As the hours pass, the world mobilizes to condemn the aggression, but the most significant thing is that Venezuela rises up. At this point in history, empires no longer need masks; they show themselves as they are. In response to this, clear understanding becomes imperative for the birth of a new world.
George Kennan, President Truman's influential advisor, said in the 1950s: "We will have to shed sentimentalism and foolishness. Abandon vague and unrealistic objectives such as human rights, the improvement of living standards, and democratization. The day will soon come when we will operate with straightforward concepts of power. The fewer idealistic nonsense that hinders our task, the better off we will be."
For us, the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, "the time has come for reckoning and united march, and we must march tightly together, like silver in the roots of the Andes," just as José Martí declared in Nuestra América.
(Taken from Granma)
