At 2am, local time, on 3 January 2026 the United States attacked several sites in and around Caracas and adjoining states such as Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, including military bases and civilian areas. This attack is a violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter. The United States has made it clear that this war, which it has imposed on Venezuela, is about oil and nothing other than oil.
US President Donald Trump has now launched attacks on all three continents of the Global South – Africa, Asia, and Latin America (putting him in the company of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Barack Obama, in other words, most US presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries). This attack will provide Trump with the requisite machismo for his 4 January State of the Nation address to the US Congress, but that is about all.
The United States will not prevail in Venezuela. It will face serious resistance not only from the Venezuelan people but from the people of the world.
No to violations of the UN Charter.
No to War.
Yes to Peace.