Statement : ECVC condemns US military intervention in Venezuela and demands a strong rejection from the European Union and the defense of international law

ECVC, a member of La Vía Campesina in Europe, the European peasant movement, strongly condemns the United States' military aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the violation of its sovereignty. We reaffirm the inalienable right of the Venezuelan people to decide their political orientation without foreign intervention, and we denounce the repeated violations of international law and the interference of imperialist powers in the democratic life of our peoples.

In light of the events of the morning of January 3, 2026, in Venezuela, namely the surprise bombing of the capital, Caracas, and the announcement of the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, ECVC is concerned by European Union’s alarming signs of weakness and subservience to the US, failing to condemn this aggression and to defend international law without excuses or falsehoods.

European citizens are perplexed by the blatant and unchecked abuse of power wielded by Donald Trump and his administration, and by the EU's response. The Venezuelan government, led by the current vice president, announced the deaths of at least 40 people, in addition to injuries and damage in urban areas.

At ECVC, we stand in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and the rural communities who feel they are bearing the brunt of the US intervention. When interventionism arrives, dispossession and profiteering follow: militarisation of the land, criminalisation of rural organizations, expansion of extractive industries, and corporate control of seeds and food, all of which lead to increased suffering and migration for the peasantry.

For ECVC, this aggression can also be taken as a warning: if they can do it in Venezuela, they will try to do it in any country that refuses to obey. That is why we need a socially strong, democratic EU that guarantees human rights and the sovereignty of its peoples, and at the international level, strongly defends international law in international organizations.

However, we see that the EU is proceeding in an erratic, incoherent manner, subject to other geopolitical interests, without defending its own values in the face of the serious aggressions and death that many peoples in the world are suffering, such as Ukraine, Palestine, now Venezuela and others.