The Communist Party of the Workers of Spain (PCTE) strongly denounces the US shelling and military attacks against Venezuela, a new and serious imperialist aggression against the sovereignty of a people and a dangerous military escalation with unpredictable results for Latin American as well as the working class and the peoples of the world.
US President Donald Trump has even publicly announced the alleged “capture” of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — an extremely serious statement that confirms the openly putschist nature of the aggression.
US imperialism intends once again to justify this aggression by resorting to the pretext of drug trafficking. This is a conscious lie. A country is not bombed, infrastructures are not destroyed, not millions of people are threatened to fight drug trafficking. This argument only serves as a propaganda alibi in order to conceal an operation for political, economic, and military domination.
This aggression is to be added to years of economic blockade, sanctions, threats, and suffocating policies. The aim of these was not the defense of human rights nor the struggle against organized crime, but the enforcement of the strategic interests of US imperialism, the control of resources, and the subordination of Latin America.
The PCTE condemns the shelling and any form of military intervention against Venezuela, which violate the international law and are directly punishing the Venezuelan working people.
The Spanish State is not neutral. The Government has military agreements with the United States, it houses US military bases in its territory and is part of the political-military structure that make these attacks possible. As long as the territory, the air space, and the military infrastructures of the Spanish State are at the service of US imperialism, Spain is co-responsible.
For all of this, the PCTE demands the Spanish Government:
- The immediate condemnation of the shelling and the military intervention against Venezuela.
- The break of the military agreements with the United States
- The closure of the US military bases in Spanish territory and the withdrawal of any logistic, political, or military support to the imperialist aggression.
Against the war, the blockade, and the imperialist interference, the PCTE restates its commitment with the Venezuelan working people and its class organizations — quite especially the Communist Party of Venezuela, in its struggle for national sovereignty, social rights, and the political independence of the working class.
No to the imperialist aggression in Venezuela!
No land, no sea, no air for imperialists!
Solidarity with the Venezuelan people.
Solidarity with the Communist Party of Venezuela.
Political Bureau of the PCTE
January 3rd, 2026