“At this time, faced with the threat of US imperialism, we stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan working people in the face of a possible invasion under the pretext that Venezuela is a drug-exporting country,” the Marxist-Leninist organization stated in remarks regarding the march held the previous day in solidarity with Venezuela.

They asserted that neither President Donald Trump nor the US government have ever hidden their interests in Venezuela, whose true objective is its natural resources—oil, gas, water, minerals, gold, iron, and rare earth elements.

“Their unprecedented imperialist pronouncements, demanding that Venezuela return the oil and other resources that were ‘stolen’ from the United States, reveal their intentions and show their imperialistic perspective that they own the world’s resources,” according to the Puerto Rican communist group.

For Teccs, the hypocrisy of offering a $50 million reward for the constitutional president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, under the pretext that he is a drug trafficker, is the greatest act of brazenness by a fascist government that recently pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for smuggling over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

“We are well aware of the history of how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been involved in drug trafficking, from the Vietnam War to Afghanistan, from Colombia to Wall Street; the Iran-Contra affair and the role of Colonel Oliver North exemplify Washington’s complicity with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),” argued the Puerto Rican communist organization.

It recalled that U.S. agencies have historically viven out drugs in African American and Latino communities in that nation; meanwhile, we see how Trump, in his anti-immigrant campaign, promotes racism and xenophobia and uses his imperial power to seize the natural resources of our countries.

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