The Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, based in Barbados, has issued a strong condemnation of the United States’ military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the extraction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from the country. The organization characterized the intervention as an unlawful violation of sovereign territory that establishes dangerous implications for developing nations worldwide.
In an official statement released following the military action, the group warned that this operation creates a catastrophic precedent for smaller nations that exercise their right to determine independent political, economic, and social pathways. The organization framed the intervention as both a crime against peace and a blatant breach of the United Nations Charter, representing what they termed a dangerous escalation threatening the sovereignty of Global South nations.
The Caribbean Movement specifically cautioned regional governments against maintaining silence, suggesting that inaction would constitute complicity with the violation. The group issued an urgent appeal to Caribbean governments, Latin American nations, Global South countries, intellectuals, artists, social movements, trade unions, and faith communities to activate coordinated solidarity with Venezuela through political pressure, mass mobilization, and cultural resistance.
Drawing historical parallels, the organization referenced the region’s shared colonial past, noting that Caribbean societies possess deep understanding of external domination dangers and maintain longstanding traditions of resistance to oppression. The statement characterized the operation as an attack on self-determination rights and a reversal of gains achieved by formerly colonized peoples, describing it as the reactivation of colonial warfare as an instrument of political and economic control.