The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba) issued a statement in which it categorically condemns the robbery and hijacking of a second ship private attack transporting Venezuelan oil, perpetrated by United States military personnel in international waters.
The text, disseminated on the digital profiles of the organization’s executive secretary, Rander Peña, denounces that the US military acted as privateers by illegitimately depriving the ship’s crew of freedom.
The declaration qualifies the incident as a serious act of piracy, which violates the letter and spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, the fundamental principles of International Law and the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation.
Below is the full text:
The countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Lucia, categorically condemn the theft and kidnapping of a second ship transporting Venezuelan oil, perpetrated by military personnel of the government of the United States of America, who, in addition, acting as privateers, have illegitimately deprived its crew of freedom. This serious act of piracy committed in international waters violates the letter and spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, the fundamental principles of International Law and the text of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation. It constitutes an unacceptable aggression against legitimate trade and the sovereignty of States.
ALBA denounces that this act unmasks a deliberate intention to plunder the natural resources of a sovereign country and establishes a very serious precedent for the region and for the international system as a whole. This is a supremacist strategy of neocolonial domination, aimed at forcibly imposing an anarchic order in which violence prevails, undermining International Law and replacing norms with intimidation and dispossession.
The Bolivarian Alliance expresses its full and active solidarity with the people and the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, supports the exercise of all corresponding legal and diplomatic actions before the competent multilateral bodies, and demands the immediate cessation of these illegal practices, as well as the determination of responsibilities in accordance with International Law.
ALBA warns that this reprehensible action does not only attack Venezuela, but constitutes a direct attack on all nations, by violating International Law and infringing the principles that support peaceful coexistence between nations.
Caracas, December 21, 2025
