Jan. - The question might seem rhetorical; the precise information about the aggression by the American filibuster troops has generated countless speculations and intense media manipulation campaigns that are part of the aggression itself, in the nebulous digital space.
Still, there is a vast lack of truthful information since, in practice, the vast majority of accounts about the specific events come from American sources, starting with Trump and the pathological liar Mr. Rubio, as well as from involved military officers; in other words, these perspectives are little or not credible at all.
By the way, would anyone believe the word of the high-ranking officers of the invading army? However, it is useful to recall the “respected” four-star General Colin Powell, who, while presenting a bag of baking soda (or something similar), tried to convince the United Nations Security Council that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Basic prudence suggests that we must wait to know what really happened that fateful dawn of January 3, 2026, which will go down in history as the first time the U.S. bombed a South American capital.
Nonetheless, without denying the need for the peoples of our Americas to know exactly how things happened, there is a core aspect of the matter concerning who or who are behind this monumental violation of the national sovereignty of a country.
And well, at first glance, the involvement of powerful economic interests is evident, obviously linked to the American oil industry and, of course, never missing in any scenario is the pressure and imposition exerted by the military-industrial complex on any occupant of the White House.
So, if one really wants to know who gave the order to attack Venezuela, it is not enough to look through the halls of the Pentagon or the State Department. Better to look into the command centers of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, or Chevron.
It is emphasized: do not forget to ask the leaders/owners of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics, among others that make up the aforementioned military-industrial conglomerate.
Moreover, if the matter is of interest, find out how much these Pentagon contractors in particular have pocketed just from the naval-aerial deployment in the Caribbean; the figure does not fall below billions of USD in logistical services, armament provision, maintenance, etc.
The oil entities, of course, seek to recover the privileges they once had, because although it was not the Bolivarian Revolution that nationalized the petrochemical industry, with Chávez, through the Organic Hydrocarbons Law of 2001, the royalty equation was modified, establishing that the majority would remain in the country. And then Exxon and others got upset, left, and a year later promoted a failed coup d’état; their hostility continues to this day.
So, put into perspective, Trump and his fierce subordinates, including Mr. Rubio and the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, were the executors of a summary order indicated by those who rule that country—that is, the famous 1% who keep around 35% of the wealth generated in the U.S.
If what was explained above is not enough to understand the “concerns of the unhappy” 1%, there is another matter, perhaps much more strategic for the empire.
Here we encounter the loss of U.S. hegemony, especially in economic terms. And faced with this inevitability from which they cannot escape, it is precisely the responsibility of the current rulers to seek remedies, or at least make an attempt to confront the decline.
But the multilateral world, with BRICS controlling 40% of the global GDP, stands in the way of that imperial resistance. And from some of the emerging powers, there is a challenge beginning to what might be the main economic strength still left to the U.S.—the dominance of the dollar currency.
It is said that it was Kissinger who in the 1970s managed to convince the most relevant fuel producers outside the USSR to adopt the so-called petrodollars, which, as experts affirm, are more important than aircraft carriers for dominating the world according to the imperial worldview.
The rest of the story is more or less known. By now, the U.S. is the country with the largest external debt in the world, transformed into a huge importing space, in a clear process of deindustrialization, and with astronomical military expenses that contribute to this debt but are necessary to maintain the fiction of a great power; this creates a vicious circle that tends to degrade the importance of the USD.
So Trump, Trumpism, and all the paraphernalia surrounding them are nothing more than an extraordinary effort by the imperial rulers to try to stop the "multilateral disorder" that threatens to sweep away what remains of the once badly managed hegemony they have enjoyed.
Then Venezuela appears on the radar. Overflowing with oil and other natural resources, led by a government with broad popular support, clearly an ideological adversary in every sense of the word, including the symbolic American notion of being the homeland of Bolívar.
And faced with U.S. aggressiveness, Venezuela fervently embraces the idea of multilateralism, seeking to neutralize the intense economic blockade, which includes, as if that were not enough, abandoning the petrodollar standard since at least 2018.
A terrible example for the rest of the continent, and also for other OPEC and associated producers. Back in the day, when the world was different, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein considered abandoning the petrodollar system. We all know how that story ended.
For all the above reasons, it is explained that almost since February 2025, more or less under Mr. Rubio's charge, a plan began to take shape, which manifested itself almost a year later, in the early hours of January 3.
It was a very hard blow, and condemnation of this universal affront must be permanent and unequivocal, as President Díaz-Canel expressed just a few hours after the criminal strike, amid a huge popular mobilization of repudiation.
It is metaphorically said that the last files of international laws, virtually canceled since the genocide in Gaza, were finally discarded. For years, the U.S. has always acted this way, and now Trump, with his cocky and arrogant brazenness, reminds that credulous part of the world—still buying the American story—that they are the standard-bearers of the struggle for freedom and democracy without batting an eye.
With Venezuela, another red line was crossed, as is now commonly said. But the South American country does not surrender, nor will it ever. One must hold that firm conviction, unless one does not believe at all in the legacy of Bolívar and Chávez.
The grandiloquent claims of the pedophile emperor, asserting that they control Venezuela after the kidnapping of its legitimate president, are the debris of an evidently unfinished operation that neither managed nor knew how to achieve the longed-for regime change—a goal so obvious that Trump himself, the truth-teller, confirms it.
Therefore, a first recommendation: do not believe, not even a little, the conspiracy theories about power struggles, or betrayals by the Venezuelan political-military high command, or other narratives that, as has been said, are part of the multidimensional attack Venezuela is suffering at this moment.
The Cuban martyrs, the 32 who died in this invasion fulfilling their duty, perhaps without knowing it, became the new men Che spoke of.
These martyrs of the American continent revolution, unfinished but inevitable, probably at the zero hour recalled Baraguá, or the unequal fight in the streets near the former Moncada barracks on July 26, ’53; perhaps they remembered Pío Alegría, or Cinco Palmas, or the fall in combat of the Curita in the battle of Santa Clara, or those who died in Angola asking for nothing in return; and also others in different places here in America, such as Bolivia.
Mr. Rubio and those responsible for this crime have somewhere to look if they dare to venture against the Island of Dignity; the 32 will multiply by a thousand, by a hundred thousand, or by as many thousands as desired. Homeland or death, we will prevail!
(Taken from CubaSí)
