A massive protest in Venezuela. Photo: Black Agenda Report.
By Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network – Dec 10, 2025
Drawing on a history of resistance, Afro-Venezuelan organizations are mobilizing their communities to meet the threat of military action by the Trump administration and calling on the people of the U.S. to act on behalf of human rights.
The Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network (ROA) and the Regional Articulation of Afrodescendants of Latin America and the Caribbean (ARAAC), Afrodescendant organizations born from anti-imperialist social change processes and anti-neocolonial struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, carry the dignity and sovereignty that our African Ancestors entrusted to us as a living imprint of the self-determination of peoples.
Latin America and the Caribbean have suffered, throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, invasions, territorial dispossession, and targeted assassinations of Latin American and Afrodescendant leaders. The historical record confirms this across nearly all the countries of Our America (Abya Yala), from the seizure of Puerto Rico, Panama, and several Caribbean islands, to the tragic invasions of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Grenada, among many others.
The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, attempted through multiple avenues to invade Venezuela. He relied on internal civilian and military enemies through Operation Gedeón, as well as mercenaries neutralized by the heroic Afrodescendant community of Chuao (Aragua State). With military and paramilitary support from Colombian-Venezuelan sectors and the backing of former presidents Duque and Uribe, he attempted to provoke an invasion. Trump sought to undermine the legitimacy of our government by imposing an illegitimate president, a puppet named Juan Guaidó. He attempted to delegitimize Venezuela internationally by creating in 2017 a group of countries led by delinquent presidents, known as the Lima Group (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru). They appointed parallel ambassadors, imposed more than a thousand coercive measures that remain in effect nearly a decade later, and even stole our embassies, including the one in Washington, D.C.
In the face of these covert, open, and shameless aggressions, our sovereign people have responded with dignity, just as our cimarrón ancestors did during the colonial period, the war of independence, and the contemporary struggles that followed. The majority of the Venezuelan population lives along the Caribbean coast, from Zulia State to our border with Trinidad and Tobago, whose president Kamla Persad-Bissessar openly defends pro-imperialist positions.
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THE INVASION ATTEMPT BY MR. TRUMP AND HIS ALLIES
The resident of the White House, Mr. Trump, has launched a second campaign aimed at invading our country, obsessed with seizing our oil reserves, the largest in the world, along with our gas, gold, and rare earth minerals. His motivation stems from the imminent depletion of U.S. reserves within five years and the decline of rare earth minerals necessary to sustain emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
The deployment of United States military forces only a few kilometers from our coastline, the killing of eighty fishermen under the pretext of drug trafficking, the violation of our airspace with threats against commercial flights, the illegal sale of the oil company CITGO, and more than 1,100 coercive measures reveal a multifaceted attack. This aggression could lead to the outbreak of a third world war, with the Caribbean and Latin America as its stage. At the center of this racist and white supremacist hatred stands Secretary of State Marco Rubio, an ultraright Cuban-American figure who has made it his mission to destroy the region’s progressive governments and act as a mercenary for ExxonMobil.
In light of this situation, we call upon the noble people of the United States to halt these aggressions. We also call on sovereign governments in the Caribbean and Latin America to stop the attacks led by Donald Trump and his mafia. We call on Afrodescendant peoples, communities, and social movements to mobilize in solidarity with our people, to denounce the false U.S. narrative of a war on drug trafficking, and to stop the march toward war.
We also call upon our Afro-Venezuelan people to defend our sovereignty and independence, and to uphold our right to self-determination as a nation. We urge our people to prepare for resistance and participate actively in a prolonged popular struggle for the defense of our homeland.
Caracas, December 4, 2025
Leadership of the Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network
Coordination of the Regional Articulation of Afrodescendants of the Americas and the Caribbean
