The PCP condemns the serious and unacceptable warmongering actions and threats of military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by the Trump administration which, under false pretexts, aim to impose the domination and plundering of this country's huge resources by US imperialism
The deployment of powerful US offensive military means and the recurring provocative actions they carry out in the Caribbean Sea constitute not only a serious threat to peace, security, sovereignty and the rights of the Venezuelan people, but also to other peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The PCP deplores the Portuguese Government's silence in the face of US blackmail and warmongering provocations, as well as its failure to denounce and condemn the threats of military aggression made by the Trump Administration against Venezuela – a country where hundreds of thousands of Portuguese people live – which constitute a flagrant violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law.
The PCP stresses that the escalation of interventionist and subversive action by US imperialism against Venezuela represents the continuation, now by military means, of the policy of interference, blockade and destabilisation that imperialism has been pursuing for 25 years with a view to defeating the Bolivarian process and what it represents in terms of affirming sovereignty, defending rights and choosing a progressive path for the Venezuelan people, but also for the peoples of the whole world.
The Venezuelan people and the other Latin American and Caribbean peoples have a right to and aspire to peace, as demonstrated by the recent rejection by the Ecuadorian people of the installation of foreign military bases in their country.
Reiterating the demand for an end to blackmail, threats, provocations and hostile actions by the US, the PCP reaffirms its solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela and the struggle of the Venezuelan people in defence of their homeland, as well as with the struggle of the Cuban, Colombian, Nicaraguan, Brazilian and other Latin American and Caribbean peoples for national sovereignty and independence, peace and social progress.
