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SDS Says: Hands off Venezuela!

National SDS

11 Nov 2025 • 1 min read

Students for a Democratic Society condemns the Trump administration's unprovoked aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. In recent weeks the US has launched targeted strikes on Venezuelan and Colombian boats. The US claims these civilian vessels are smuggling drugs, which constitutes an “act of war.” This claim doesn’t stand up to scrutiny in the slightest, not to mention that the attacks breach international law and were carried out without congressional approval. Trump has also authorized the CIA to carry out “lethal operations” on Venezuelan soil, and has threatened land invasion multiple times. He has sent an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, while other warships are stationed at Trinidad and Tobago, an island nation just off Venezuela’s coast.

Venezuela has been in the US’s crosshairs for many years now. The nation possesses the largest oil reserves in the world, and to sit in “America’s backyard” with independent wealth is unacceptable to the American government. During Trump’s first term, back in 2020, a US backed coup attempt barely got off the ground before the Venezuelan military thwarted it. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a “narcoterrorist,” responsible for many American deaths by way of drug smuggling. By conflating drug trafficking with terrorism, and by falsely accusing Maduro of trafficking drugs, Trump has manufactured consent to extrajudicially assassinate the leader of a sovereign state.

A war with Venezuela would have disastrous effects throughout the Americas, just as the Iraq war destabilized West Asia for decades. Students for a Democratic Society has always stood in firm opposition to US warmongering, and as such we condemn Donald Trump and his neocon administration.

Hands off Venezuela!
No War for Oil!
Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Deportations!

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