By Venezuelanvoices
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On Wednesday, January 28, a group of left-opposition organizations protested in Morelos Square in Caracas and presented a letter to the Ombudsman’s Office, rejecting US military aggression and the Venezuelan government’s collaboration with Trump, as well as demanding democratic rights.
This is the text of the letter delivered delivered to the Ombudsman’s Office:
Ombudsman Alfredo Ruiz,
We, a group of political organizations and social and union activists who identify as anti-imperialists, from the “National Meeting in Defense of the Rights of the People” and other leftist movements, request your attention as Ombudsman, as we believe that the genuine interests of the nation and, more specifically, our fate as Venezuelan people, are at enormous risk in the face of the crisis we are currently experiencing and confronting.
As we are well aware, our country was attacked in the early hours of January 3, 2026, by US military forces, resulting in the bombing of several civilian and military installations, as well as an officially unspecified number of deaths, but according to unofficial information exceed 100 killings, and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, who were transferred to a maximum-security prison in New York.
We hereby make it clear that we categorically reject the imperialist military aggression of the US against Venezuela and all the geopolitical interests expressed by the imperialist power currently led by Donald Trump, murderer and enemy of the peoples of the world, as well as the kidnapping that has been perpetrated.
Donald Trump makes no secret of his expansionist and colonialist ambitions. He sees himself subjugating all of Latin America and the Caribbean, and has his sights set on Canada and Greenland. We therefore consider that what has just happened in our country is merely one step in a broader strategy of subjugation by the US imperialist power against the rest of the continent. In view of this, it is urgent that all the peoples of this region, including the American people themselves, begin to organize ourselves to respond appropriately to these events and to be able to stop these attempts at colonialist domination, marked by barbarism.
We take a critical view of how the national government, then headed by Nicolás Maduro, responded from the very moment Trump began to deploy his forces in the Caribbean, without any preparation or a real policy designed to motivate the majority of the people to defend our sovereignty and our territory.
We take the same critical stance on how the Venezuelan government is acting now, after the bombing and with Delcy Rodríguez as acting president, showing complete collaboration with the US, while Trump openly states that they now decide how Venezuela and its wealth are managed, with oil exploitation as the focal point. An example of this is the current reform of the Hydrocarbons Law, which opens the door to the privatization of the country’s main energy resource, oil, for the benefit of large transnational corporations, as well as the US government itself.
This is a condition of tutelage that we cannot accept as Venezuelans or as anti-imperialists. In this sense, we must begin by restoring a comprehensive democratic framework so that all voices opposed to Yankee interference and the collaborationism of the current government can express themselves freely and have the opportunity to widely publicize our proposals in this regard.
The Ombudsman’s Office has an obligation to enforce political rights and guarantees so that the Venezuelan people have the possibility, through mobilizations, deliberations, and their various forms of struggle and democratic participation, to make known their point of view and struggle to defend it in the face of what is happening in the country, what is being negotiated, the demands of the aggressor, and the conduct of the national government.
It is our obligation to demand an end to the repression that has been unleashed against the Venezuelan people by the State and its security forces. That fundamental rights of the working class such as the right to a minimum wage equivalent to the cost of the basket of basic goods, established in Article 91 of the Constitution, be restored. That all political prisoners be released and that the rest of our democratic and political rights in general be deeply respected.
It is not as a protectorate of the US that we will recover our democratic freedoms and improve our standard of living as a people, nor is it by having a government that cooperates with and obeys Trump. We Venezuelans must resolve our internal problems with democratic guarantees for participation and organization, defending our sovereignty and deciding on the nation’s resources.
We demand that the Ombudsman’s Office issue a statement on the demands presented.
No to US military aggression against Venezuela!
Trump out of Venezuela, Latin America, and the Caribbean!
No to the collaboration of Delcy Rodriguez’s government with Yankee imperialism!
Stop repression!
We demand the restoration of the right to a wage that covers the cost of the basic goods basket!
Free all political prisoners!
Signed
PPT-APR, Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV-Dignidad), Marea Socialista, Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) and Communist Revolution (as part of the unified space identified as National Encounter in Defense of the Rights of the People), as well as the Alternative Popular Movement (MPA), the Workers’ League for Socialism (LTS), the Popular Historical Block (BHP), and the Socialist Workers’ Unity (UST).
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