Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

STATEMENT BY CADTM AYNA

Early this morning, Saturday 3 January 2026, US imperialism bombed Venezuela.

Following a criminal offensive, with a naval siege and the untenable pretext of combating drug trafficking, the United States attacked Venezuela and, feigning legality to give a semblance of legitimacy to its terrorist action, announced that it had sequestered President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
CADTM-AYNA denounces the aggression and rejects the cowardly imperialist attack on Venezuela; it also condemns and repudiates the illegal detention of the President of the Republic.

We demand an end to imperial aggression and the immediate release of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. We also call on the peoples and governments of the world to show solidarity, to mobilise and to demand an end to this brutal coup against the Venezuelan people.
The United States seeks Venezuela’s oil and to hinder any autonomous attempt at political construction, while attempting to assert its right to intervene in the region, as expressed in its recent foreign security document.

No to US intervention, yes to the autonomy of Venezuela and all nations threatened by the US!!!.
3 January 2026