South African Communist Party

SACP condemns United States aggression against Venezuela, denounces Nobel Peace Prize on a sworn apartheid Israel supporter, an imperialist coup agent in Venezuela against a democratically elected government

Saturday, 11 October 2025: - The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the military aggression perpetrated by the United States against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The US military attack on Venezuela is a clear violation of international law and an act of war which threatens Venezuela’s peace and security. It is accompanied by a propaganda and disinformation campaign.

The direct threat to Venezuela’s right to sovereignty and self-determination is marked by a growing deployment of military forces closer to the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean. The imperialist US has deployed over 10,000 military personnel, fighter planes, missile destroyers and missile cruisers, assault troops, assets used in special operations and covert missions, and even a nuclear submarine. This is an arrogant violation of the United Nations Charter, in terms of which member states must refrain from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. The United Nations Organisation was founded upon deep reflection on the bitter lessons of the first and second world wars.

The SACP strongly calls for the unconditional withdrawal of United States military forces from the territories bordering Venezuela and the full compliance of the United States with international laws and regulations. We reiterate our rejection of the United States’ impunity and its violation of the Latin America and Caribbean States Proclamation, which declares South America and the Caribbean a Zone of Peace.

We are calling upon all people worldwide to reject the United States war policy and work towards peace and solidarity.

The United States’ assault on Venezuela is now emboldened by the unwarranted bestowing of the Nobel Peace Prize on a sworn apartheid Israel supporter, Maria Corina Machadoa, one of the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition which advocates for a coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela. She was part of the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president, Comrade Hugo Chavez, and has since gained support from the United States regime in her pursuit to undermine the democratic sovereignty of the Venezuelan people.

Maria Corina Machadoa is a documented devotee of apartheid Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom she has invited to militarily overthrow the democratically elected Venezuelan government. Following her hero, Donald Trump, she has pledged to move Venezuela’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if Netanyahu helps her to gain political power in Venezuela. Her political party, Vente Venezuela, signed co-operation agreements with Netanyahu’s Likud Party, pledging to strengthen relations between Israel and Venezuela.

The unwarranted decision to bestow Maria Corina Machadoa the Nobel Peace Prize has in this case discredited this prize by turning it into an instrument for the imperialist agenda of regime change and coups against a democratically elected government.

In its ethnic cleansing campaign, the apartheid Israeli regime has slaughtered over 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 24 months, over 70 per cent of whom are women, children and elderly. The death toll is expected to rise steeply as at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for as they remain buried under the rubble. On 16 September, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry condemned Israel’s conduct in Gaza as a genocide.

The SACP reaffirms its solidarity with the people of Palestine in their fight for liberation from apartheid Israel. As the SACP, we reiterate our call for the prosecution of the perpetrators of the genocide in Palestine.

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ISSUED BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY,
FOUNDED IN 1921 AS THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA.