Transnational Women Say NO to U.S. Intervention in Venezuela
NATIONAL — AF³IRM strongly condemns the U.S. attacks on and invasion of Venezuela and reasserts its support of the Venezuelan people’s resistance to U.S. intervention.
In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, Donald Trump authorized a “large-scale strike” in Caracas, Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Overnight, explosions were heard across Caracas while Maduro and Flores were kidnapped from their bed and forced into a U.S. military aircraft en route to New York City. Maduro and Flores are to face charges related to “narcoterrorism” in New York.
This attack is the natural escalation in Donald Trump’s ongoing racist scapegoating of Venezuelans and their government. It began with his January 20, 2025 designation of Tren de Aragua as a “foreign terrorist organization” and the subsequent illegal removals of hundreds of Venezuelans to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. It continued with Trump’s lies, refuted by several intelligence agencies, that Venezuela is colluding with Tren de Aragua to funnel narcotics and people into the U.S. The Trump administration used these lies to justify not only today’s attacks, but also the 35 lethal strikes on Venezuelan vessels and extrajudicial killings in waters off Venezuela from September 2, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
At least 115 people are dead from the maritime attacks, with the number of casualties from today’s bombings still being counted. 80-year-old Rosa González was named as one of this morning’s civilian victims.
Meanwhile, Trump celebrates and looks forward to “get[ting] the oil flowing.”
These attacks on Venezuela and its people are not incidental; they are rooted in the United States’s legacy of interference for the benefit of corporate capitalists. Fueling the war machine to fulfill promises of more access to oil for corporations, and reinforcing capitalism’s foothold across the globe on the backs of Third World peoples aligns with the Trump regime’s right-wing vision.
On top of the already existing femicide epidemic in Latin America, we know that the plundering of wealth and natural resources, including oil, is inextricably linked to the rape and exploitation of women. For example, in the United States, man camps established to support the oil industry exacerbate rates of rape, trafficking, and murder of Native women living near the camps.
We also know from our histories that women and girls suffer unique and disproportionate harm from invasions and war. Gender-based violence, femicide, and maternal deaths increase, while girls’ attendance in school and women’s participation in the paid economy decrease. Sexual exploitation, prostitution, and sex trafficking of women, girls, and gender nonconforming persons surge. All are direct consequences of U.S. military presence, which is especially lethal to poor and working class women of color.
Despite the onslaught of racist, patriarchal, imperialist violence, we women will continue to resist until these oppressive systems fall. Our survival, the survival of womankind, is dependent on collective resistance across the globe. We will continue to stand in solidarity with our Venezuelan sisters. We look to the legacies of Juana La Avanzadora, Jefa Apacuana, and Luisa Cáceres Díaz de Arismendi, and will rise up for a truly feminist future.
The women of AF³IRM declare,
FUERA TRUMP DE VENEZUELA.
NO A LA INTERVENCIÓN DE EE.UU.