FDLP-ECUADOR: AGAINST THE YANKEE INVASION OF VENEZUELA
We hereby share the statement from the Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles in Ecuador.
The Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles in Ecuador expresses its strongest rejection and condemnation of the military aggression carried out by Yankee imperialism against Venezuela. This is an act of force that violates national sovereignty, threatens the lives of the people, and pushes the region towards an escalation of unpredictable consequences.
This aggression cannot be covered up with propaganda. It is not “defense of democracy,” nor “fight against narcotrafficking,” nor “protection of security.” It is, as has happened so many times in the region, an operation of domination with material and geopolitical objectives: to control strategic resources, align governments and peoples, and reestablish imperialist hegemony on the continent.
The true reasons that promote this new aggression against a third-world people are related to oil, resources, and geopolitical control. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on the planet, estimated at around 303 billion barrels, and concentrates a significant portion of global reserves. The Venezuelan government has recently stated that US harassment combines sanctions, military pressure, and “anti-drug” operations, with the intention of appropriating strategic resources such as oil and other minerals. To this is added the fact that Venezuela has been a direct ally of China, Russia, and Iran, an aspect that Trump would hardly allow to sustain or propagate in America, in the course of inter-imperialist contradictions.
The aggression has tried to be legitimized and endorsed by puppet governments such as Noboa, Milei, and others, through a series of fallacies, such as “restoring democracy,” “punishing corruption,” or “rescuing institutions.” While they declaim “democratic values,” they apply coercive measures that collectively punish the people: financial blockade, sanctions on oil trade, persecution of shipping companies and merchants, and economic asphyxiation aimed at breaking the country and opening the way to external tutelage.
Hybrid war is a form of aggression that does not always arrive with tanks or bombs at the beginning. Often, it enters first through the door of economy, information, and fear. It is about hitting a people on several fronts at the same time, without declaring a formal war, to tire them, divide them, isolate them, and force them to accept, under pressure, a political course imposed from outside by imperialism.
In practice, it starts with economic and financial asphyxiation: sanctions, bank blockade, freezing of assets, and threats to companies, shipping companies, or insurers so that no one trades. Then comes the media war, which installs repeated stories until exhaustion: that the aggressed country is a “dictatorship,” “narco-State,” or “threat,” and converts that propaganda into a trend with coordinated campaigns and manipulated networks. At the same time, a diplomatic and legal siege is deployed, seeking to isolate the country, deny authorities, and punish even third parties that relate to it through extraterritorial laws or litigation.
When necessary, covert operations are added: infiltration, financing of internal networks, espionage, and maneuvers to generate destabilization. Sabotage and technological war also appear, attacking critical infrastructure such as energy, telecommunications, payment systems, or transportation, to convert daily life into a crisis. All this feeds political destabilization internally, fostering polarization, social fractures, and “chaos” scenarios that are then presented as proof that “something must be done.” And, as a finish, indirect military pressure is maintained: deployments, exercises, bases, and operations justified with pretexts such as “anti-drugs” or “anti-terrorism.”
The key to this strategy is its synchrony: the economy presses, propaganda confuses, sabotage hits, the siege isolates, and military threat blackmails. It is a war that seeks to make the people feel that they have no way out, when in reality, what is attempted is to snatch away their elementary right to decide their own destiny.
Today, we witness the application of hybrid war as a form of aggression against Venezuela and, with it, against the oppressed countries of the world. The escalation has been systematic: economic pressure and armed operations. This aggression is part of a previous process. In recent weeks, a greater naval presence and US operations in the Caribbean have been reported, accompanied by lethal actions against vessels under the “anti-narcotics” narrative.
The combination of sanctions, military pressure, and propaganda seeks to create a permanent “state of exception” over Venezuela: any action is presented as “necessary,” even if it destroys lives, infrastructure, and sovereignty.
When the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the “Nobel Peace Prize” to María Corina Machado, “recognizing her as a brave and committed defender of peace,” it did so precisely in the course of a hybrid war strategy that was paving the way for this direct aggression.
For some days now, Iran has experienced strong internal turmoil. It is evident that they have been spurred on by the CIA and Mossad, with the aim of focusing Iran on its internal problems and isolating it from Venezuela. There is no doubt: imperialist war has new ways and mechanisms of action. We must remember this; perhaps this will help us understand the role of Noboa with his intention of installing military bases in the country, as well as the promotion and political capitalization of massacres and all the violence that Ecuador is experiencing.
What is at stake for Ecuador, for America, and for all the oppressed countries of the world is critical. What is being tested today against Venezuela may be executed tomorrow against any people who do not kneel or submit to the mandate of imperialism. Imperialist aggression does not recognize borders when it comes to maintaining its hegemony. They want to set a precedent: that in Latin America, a foreign power can bomb, capture, impose governments, or define national destinies by force.
The FDLP-EC states, in a determined manner, that our position is not in defense of “Chavismo,” “socialism of the 21st century,” or Maduro, but of the self-determination of peoples. In this context, we call for active solidarity and popular mobilization.
Publicly reject the military aggression against Venezuela and denounce US interference in the region.
Demand the cessation of all armed action, the withdrawal of threats, and unconditional respect for Venezuelan sovereignty.
Demand the lifting of sanctions and unilateral coercive measures that punish the people and seek to render the nation through hunger and blockade.
Promote combative solidarity days: mobilizations, sit-ins, pronouncements, forums, public acts, and information campaigns that unmask imperialist propaganda.
Reveal the role that the fascist regime of Noboa is playing in favor of imperialist plans for the region.
Promote, in the best way possible, the formation of the Anti-Imperialist Front as an organization that supports the oppressed peoples of the world, the classes and sectors permanently aggressed by imperialism, and launches the masses into a decisive struggle against the rapacious, criminal, and abject eagle of Yankee imperialism.
The history of our peoples is written with resistance against plunder. Today, the defense of Venezuela is also the defense of the elementary principle of self-determination. We do not accept that aggression be normalized as a tool of foreign policy. We do not accept that imperialism continues to be the “world police,” the “judge” that determines the course that peoples must take. Let us not allow the fascist Noboa to speak on behalf of the people of Ecuador to endorse an aggression that not only wounds the Venezuelan people but also all the oppressed peoples of the world.
YANKEES GO HOME!
DAMN YANKEES, RETURN TO YOUR BORDERS!
NO MORE IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION AGAINST THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE!
