Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a televised event with communal leaders on October 24, 2025. Photo: Venezuela's Presidential Press.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela will form an international volunteer brigade to confront any US intervention or aggression. The statement was made during a meeting of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform.
“We have received proposals from all over Latin America and the Caribbean, from Asia, Africa, and from many other places. I have seen videos on social media from many people, social leaders, saying that they too are getting ready,” Maduro said.
He added that the international brigades, comprised of “men and women of the world,” would defend Venezuela’s sovereignty. President Maduro added that Washington is unleashing “a new eternal war,” commenting on the controversial US deployment and aggressions in the Caribbean Sea, with 10 strikes on small boats that have already killed 43 civilians in actions labeled as extrajudicial killings by international experts.
The announcement responds to the unprecedented US military campaign in the Caribbean, which Washington claims is part of the war on drugs. Since August, the US has deployed eight warships, one nuclear submarine and, most recently, the USS Gerald R. Ford, its most advanced aircraft carrier.
Before the announcement of the aircraft carrier’s deployment, mainstream media reported that the number of US troops deployed in the region was 10,000. This US carrier is capable of housing 4,500 additional troops. It is on its way from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean.
In response, the Venezuelan government has mobilized the Bolivarian Militia, enlisting 3 million more members to raise the number of this branch of the military to 8 million. Venezuela has also reinforced its borders and launched massive military drills to confront any US attempt to enter its territory.
Venezuela has requested support from UN Secretary-General António Guterres in response to what analysts consider an unprecedented US threat aimed at regime change in Venezuela, and the destabilization of the entire Latin American and Caribbean region.
The initiative for international support was previewed on October 13 by Secretary General of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Diosdado Cabello. He said Venezuela would welcome support from people around the world to help defend the country from imminent US military aggression.
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Cabello’s statement was made during the party’s weekly press conference in response to a journalist’s question. The journalist inquired about President Maduro’s comments the previous day regarding an internationalist indigenous brigade, asking if the PSUV would organize general international brigades similar to those formed during the Spanish Civil War.
“If we have not publicly called for the peoples of the world to organize to defend our country, I take this opportunity to do so from this moment. From anywhere in the world, here is Venezuela, which is being attacked, and any help you can give us is welcome,” Cabello answered. “Here you will be received as brothers of life. Brothers of life. Love is repaid with love. That is what they say around here.”
Concluding his statements, Cabello revealed that military and police forces in the region, including countries currently controlled by far-right forces, have sent messages of full support in case of foreign aggression.
Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff
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