{"id":2587,"date":"2026-01-03T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:44:36","slug":"trumps-criminal-attack-on-venezuela-statement-by-the-stop-trump-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s criminal attack on Venezuela &#8211; Statement by the Stop Trump Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump\u2019s regime has bombed Venezuela\u2019s capital and major urban areas in a further escalation of the USA\u2019s illegal and unlawful attacks on the country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people have been killed since the US began its strikes on Venezuelan boats in September 2025. It is unknown how many people have been killed in Trump\u2019s latest attacks on Venezuela today.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also said that the US has abducted the country\u2019s leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and removed him from the country. This is a blatant breach of international and democratic norms and, legally, an act of war.\u00a0<strong>It is for the Venezuelan people and only the Venezuelan people to remove their country\u2019s leader.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s attacks follow the US bombing of Iran last year \u2013 and Trump\u2019s long-term backing, including arms, intelligence and diplomatic support, for Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza. It is also part of a long, colonialist history of US military attacks on Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump has openly stated that his aims in Venezuela are regime change and the extraction of resources, including oil. The US\u2019s pretext that this is about drug-smuggling is pure fantasy and a cover to justify its criminal attacks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This may be the beginning of a series of attacks, with a major US military buildup visible near Venezuela, including an aircraft carrier, warships and jets.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump tries to paint himself as a \u2018peacemaker\u2019, he is constantly threatening a wide range of countries, including recently appointing an envoy with the explicit aim to annex Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s bombing of Venezuela is a textbook example of what happens when Britain and other countries appease US-sanctioned terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stop Trump Coalition condemns the bombing of Venezuela and calls for the British government to finally condemn the US for its warmongering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stop Trump calls on the UK government to seek an immediate UN Security Council meeting to demand an immediate end to the attacks on Venezuela and for Trump to be held to account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stoptrump.org.uk\/\">Stop Trump Coalition<\/a>, 3 January 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F2587&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F2587&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s regime has bombed Venezuela\u2019s capital and major urban areas in a further escalation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,3,180,220],"tags":[156,25,89,162,222],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperialism","category-international-news","category-international-solidarity","category-venezuela","tag-imperialism","tag-international","tag-latin-america","tag-trump","tag-venezuela"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s criminal attack on Venezuela - Statement by the Stop Trump Coalition - ecosocialist.scot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=2587\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s criminal attack on Venezuela - Statement by the Stop Trump Coalition - ecosocialist.scot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump\u2019s regime has bombed Venezuela\u2019s capital and major urban areas in a further escalation...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=2587\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ecosocialist.scot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Ecosocialistscot-103724918653741\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-01-03T13:44:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Iain Gault\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ecosocialistsc1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ecosocialistsc1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Iain Gault\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ecosocialist.scot\\\/?p=2587#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ecosocialist.scot\\\/?p=2587\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Iain Gault\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ecosocialist.scot\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f4f83891f7ff96f99fd02387cf4de077\"},\"headline\":\"Trump\u2019s criminal attack on Venezuela &#8211; 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