The Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) described Trump’s decision as “illegal and irresponsible,” which “further aggravates tension in the Caribbean, where the United States has deployed a military force of enormous destructive power.”
The PCU pointed out that the White House also authorized the CIA to carry out covert actions within Venezuelan territory and murdered dozens of people, without any evidence, in attacks on boats in Caribbean and Pacific waters.
“The excuse of combating drug trafficking falls apart by itself when Trump himself and his main military and diplomatic leaders publicly recognize that they want to overthrow the Venezuelan Government, and congressmen openly speak of the need to keep Venezuelan oil,” the political group said.
Congo
In another statement released this Saturday, the chapter of the Anti-Fascist International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared that the “iniquitous and illegal” decision to declare Venezuelan airspace closed violates international legal instruments and the Charter of the United Nations.
After considering it as an “expression of the barbarity of the Trump Administration,” the Antifascist International-DR Congo denounced that it “does not respect the law or peaceful coexistence between peoples” and called on the progressive forces of the world to “unite behind the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to defend its sovereignty.”
“Imperialism, cornered, once again immerses the planet in the bestiality of another era,” it reads.
Paraguay
“Neither Trump nor anyone else has the authority to threaten Venezuela,” the Paraguayan Movement of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution said in a statement, denouncing “the new imperial onslaught of Donald Trump,” who in an “outburst of colonial arrogance seeks to dictate orders over Venezuelan airspace.”
For the Paraguayan group, the “absurd and desperate” threat from the head of the White House confirms what the people of Our America already know: “US imperialism remains determined to impose its rule through lies, blackmail and provocations.”
He denounced that Trump is once again presenting himself as the gendarme of the world, ignoring international law and mocking the self-determination of peoples, in “a hostile, unacceptable act typical of those who believe that Latin America is their backyard.” Regarding the latter, he stressed: “It is not and will never be.”
