In a joint statement, the Aguan Land Platform, the Antifascist International (Honduras chapter), the Honduras-Venezuela Friendship Association, and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) denounced the military aggression.

   The movements stated that the violation of the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the state terrorism, and the abduction of Maduro and his wife set a negative precedent for Latin America, violating international law and the self-determination of peoples.

  The attack on Caracas and other cities, along with the use of force, is “an escalation of imperial violence that seeks to impose, through terror and war, a project of political, economic, and geopolitical domination over the peoples who resist,” they warned.

   They stated that the kidnapping of legitimate authorities is a practice of state terrorism, historically used against popular movements and governments that do not submit to transnational elites.   

The aforementioned groups raised their voices against what they described as US interference in the region, repeating colonial practices that harm social projects and fundamental freedoms.   

They called on the peoples of the world, social movements, and international organizations to break the silence, to permanently denounce these crimes, and to mobilize against a new imperial aggression that threatens regional and global peace, the statement emphasized.

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