{"id":55939,"date":"2025-11-02T09:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55939"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:25:59","slug":"veterans-for-peace-says-no-war-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/02\/veterans-for-peace-says-no-war-on-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans For Peace Says: NO WAR on VENEZUELA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteransforpeace.org\/\">Veterans For Peace<\/a> is appalled by the U.S. military\u2019s extrajudicial killing of fishermen<\/strong> from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Trinidad and Tobago \u2013 whom the Trump administration labeled as drug traffickers without evidence, due process, or accountability to Congress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We condemn President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/strong> for their open threats to attack and overthrow Venezuela\u2019s lawfully elected, sovereign government. We call for the immediate withdrawal of <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trump-is-gunning-to-illegally-attack-venezuela-and-change-its-regime\/\">U.S. warships, fighter jets, and thousands of troops<\/a> now menacing the coast of Venezuela. Reports of a massive naval buildup \u2013 including aircraft carriers, destroyers, and cruise missiles \u2013 raise serious concerns that the administration is preparing for yet another war of aggression in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As veterans of U.S. wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan \u2013 <\/strong>wars based on lies that killed millions \u2013 we see through the familiar justifications for this latest escalation. Just as the \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d narrative led to the invasion of Iraq, today\u2019s \u201cnarco-terrorist\u201d accusations ring hollow. The Drug Enforcement Administration itself has confirmed that few illicit drugs come from Venezuela, while fentanyl enters primarily from Mexico. Colombia remains a major source of cocaine, yet its current president, Gustavo Petro, has taken serious steps to curb production and trafficking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Venezuela <em>does<\/em> possess are the world\u2019s largest known reserves of oil and gas<\/strong>. Its government has pledged to use those resources to lift its people out of poverty. For over twenty years, the U.S. has waged a covert campaign to destabilize Venezuela through attempted coups and devastating economic sanctions that have killed more than 100,000 people. Now Washington appears to be returning to old-fashioned gunboat imperialism \u2013 while simultaneously funding genocide in Palestine, prolonging the war in Ukraine, and deploying militarized forces in U.S. cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veterans For Peace stands firmly against war, genocide, and creeping fascism<\/strong>. We support all service members who refuse to participate in illegal wars at home or abroad. We join together with our allies in the peace movement for a <a href=\"https:\/\/unac.notowar.net\/no-war-on-venezuela-all-out-for-a-week-of-emergency-protests\/#Endorsement\"><strong>Week of Coordinated Protests, November 15\u201323<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong>We will continue to organize until the U.S. government ends its war on Venezuela and stops intervening in the internal affairs of other nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NO WAR ON VENEZUELA<\/strong>!\u00a0 <strong>No Troops in Our Streets!<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>No More Genocide in Our Name!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans For Peace is appalled by the U.S. military\u2019s extrajudicial killing of fishermen from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Trinidad and Tobago \u2013 whom the Trump administration labeled as drug traffickers without evidence, due process, or accountability to Congress. We condemn President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for their open threats to attack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1296],"class_list":["post-55939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"Veterans Condemn Trump\u2019s Murder of South American Fishermen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55944,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55939\/revisions\/55944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55939"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}