Saturday, 3 January 2026:- The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns and denounces in the strongest terms possible, the Trump administration's criminal military invasion of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, an act in complete violation of international law.

The SACP has also learnt with shock and horror of the Trump administration's brazen act of international piracy of abducting Venezuela's democratically elected president Nicolás Maduro together with his wife.

The US’s latest criminal aggression in Venezuela is the culmination of a series of threats and political rhetoric by Donald Trump towards Venezuela and its president and deserves only the strongest condemnation. This dastardly banditry act constitutes a criminal and flagrant violation of the United Nations articles 1 and 2 which enshrine respect for sovereignty, legal equality of states and the prohibition of the use of force. It is a violation of international peace and stability in Latin America and the Caribbean and puts the lives of millions of people at serious risk.

The objective of the predatory Trump administration is imperial regime change in order to seize the strategic resources of  Venezuela, in particular its oil and minerals.

The SACP fully supports Venezuela's right to defend and protect its people, its territory and its independence. The SACP further supports Venezuela's just call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean and the World to mobilise in active solidarity in the face of the Trump led administration's criminal imperialist aggression.