01/06/2026
Free Maduro and Flores, Reject Capitalist Lies
US media and politicians are spreading lies to justify another war. Nicolás Maduro and Celia Flores are not narco-traffickers or dictators - they are heroes of the workers, peasants, indigenous people, women and children of Venezuela.
The Democrat and Republican politicians who spread these lies are in the pockets of the billionaire-owned war profiteering corporations like the fossil fuel companies and tech monopolies. These are the forces responsible for the deaths of millions around the globe whether from war, sanctions, or economic monopolies of food and medicine. The biggest drug traffickers are not Maduro and Flores but the Pentagon and US banks or billionaires like the Sacklers, who were responsible for the opioid epidemic. Countless reports have shown that US special forces units like those that carried out the kidnapping of Maduro and Flores are filled with especially heinous drug-traffickers.
Just like during the US wars on Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the government perpetuates lies to try to justify murderous wars and cons the people into supporting them. We need to counter these lies to make it clear to workers in the US that the war against Venezuela is a billionaire's war for oil and minerals.
Trump wants to occupy Venezuela. He and his billionaire backers seek to enrich themselves by using our tax dollars to hire corporate death squads who will be used to violently plunder Venezuela's wealth. The resources they steal from Venezuela will not help workers in the US - it will just make the people responsible for our misery richer.
The Bolivarian Revolution, which began with a mass uprising in 1992, is dedicated to using Venezuela's oil wealth to set up a system of true democracy and social benefits. It was headed by the peoples' hero Hugo Chavez, who was reelected many times, and has continued with the election of Nicolas Maduro. In Venezuela, unlike here, medical and dental is free, education is free, child care is free. The wealth of Venezuela is used to support the people, not enrich billionaires.
What scares capitalists more than anything is when regular people, workers and peasants, take the resources of their country into their own hands and make decisions to improve the well-being of the masses. In Venezuela, millions of people participate in popular assemblies not only making local but national decisions. It is a true democracy from the ground up, not dictated by the rich. Venezuela's incredible democracy was built while US capitalists, represented by the CIA, the State Department, and the Pentagon, carried out failed coups in Venezuela and attempted to impose unknown and unpopular oligarchs who were defeated in election after election.
Maduro has not subjected the people of Venezuela to brutality - that has come in the form of US economic sanctions and blockades, which are the sole reasons for the hardships Venezuelans face. The rich oligarchs of Venezuela, funded by our tax money and operating with the CIA, have carried out bombings of day care and health centers. They are extremely racist against indigenous and Black Venezuelans. Trump's crony and Nobel War Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, darling of global capitalists, is detested in Venezuela. Her goal is to be the Pinochet of Venezuela, and like him, she is funded and controlled by the US. If her party of US-backed oligarchs gains control, they will carry out bombings, murders, imprisonments and disappearances of the Venezuelan people.
Despite the hardships created by US sanctions, bombings, and now a naval blockade, the vast majority of Venezuelans are in the streets demanding the release of Maduro. They are demanding the an end to the US blockade and the return of their president. They are not celebrating as is being reported in the billionaire-owned media; they are armed and determined to resist a US invasion. And they will prevail.
We need to stand in solidarity with them and speak out against the lies. We should let the workers of the US know that the Venezuelan people and Maduro and Flores are fighting for their right to continue to build a country based on peoples needs, not profit, as we ourselves need to do right here.
