Climáximo and Greve Climática Estudantil, movements for climate justice, declare their solidarity with the Venezuelan people attacked by Donald Trump’s US fossil fuel empire. The Global South is once again the target of the fossil fuel industry’s weapons of profit, which has already abandoned any pretense of legitimacy by kidnapping, stealing, and killing with impunity while European Union leaders fade into history.
Donald Trump’s statements following the attack and kidnapping of Venezuela’s president open a new chapter in history. The US president announced that he will turn the Latin American country into an American colony in order to gain access to its oil reserves, that they “will run the country” and deliver its oil to large American companies, including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Marathon, Valero, and Phillips 66, among others. The umbilical connection between the far right and the fossil fuel industry is now an insurmountable reality across all latitudes. The US is little more than an armed extension of the fossil fuel industry. If this alliance is successful, it will lead to the collapse of the conditions that allow human civilizations to exist on this planet. The end of the fossil fuel industry with the end of oil, gas, and coal use by 2030 in the Northern Hemisphere is essential to ensure peace and social justice.
We express our unconditional support for the struggle that will unfold from now on, both on the part of the Venezuelan people and throughout Latin America, under which hangs the violent voracity of the US. Just yesterday, the spokesperson for US fossil fuel imperialism openly threatened the Colombian, Cuban, and Mexican peoples. The struggle for the independence of Venezuela and Latin America, which currently coincides with the struggle for the Bolivarian revolution, is a new front line in the war for life.
The collusion, through support or omission, of European governments in the face of the plunder, kidnapping, piracy, and violence of the US empire reveals that the European Union has long ceased to exist as an independent entity, with its current leaders and the far right that already governs it revealing total subservience.
The climate justice movement recognizes that, after the start of the genocide in Gaza, a new type of intervention in the countries of the Global South has begun, a return to the past led by far-right politics that dehumanizes everything in the service of destructive profit. The struggle for dignity, independence, and the construction of popular power are the weapons of the future, and we will stand alongside the peoples who build them. This afternoon and tomorrow we will be present and we call for participation in the rallies in Lisbon and Porto, and we will remain connected with the resistance movements in Latin America.