This is from the website of the Brazilian section of the LCFI
US imperialism is reviving the Monroe Doctrine in its pursuit of regional hegemony. Attacks on the Bolivarian Revolution have been ongoing since Chávez Frías came to power, including his kidnapping, the guarimbas (violent protests), currency seizures, attempted invasions, and the offer of US$50 million to assassinate Maduro. There have been 930 sanctions against the Venezuelan people, who resist with unity, organization, and constant mobilization. It is necessary to defend all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
International Antifascist – Brazil Chapter
In 2025, the Trump administration intensified the decades-long siege against Venezuela and Cuba and extended its sanctions policy to several other Latin American countries, such as Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. However, the tactic of sanctions and tariffs further amplifies and deepens contradictions, strengthening movements fighting for sovereignty and the unity of oppressed peoples, in opposition to the interests of imperialism and fascism.
Similarly, Trump’s internal war, resorting to ICE, his Gestapo, to persecute immigrants, especially Latin Americans, and the elimination of social programs for the most needy sectors of the US working population, has been strengthening social mobilizations, the left, and the opposition to Trumpism, imposing important political defeats on the White House in the October elections.
Shortly after the 2008 crisis, an economic transition towards commercial independence from the US began in Latin America. The financialization of the imperialist economy, and the inability of the parasitic US and European economies to counter the development of the productive forces and commodity production of the BRICS countries, especially China, makes this transition an unstoppable movement. Even under Milei’s government, the Chinese economy continues to expand its influence in Argentina, contradicting the interests of imperialism.
Defeated both domestically and externally in the economy and in politics, unable to achieve his goal of the surrender and capitulation of the oppressed, Trump resorts to military blackmail and coups in Venezuela and Mexico, that is, carrying out the policy of recolonization by other means, the military, that of civil war.
The most powerful naval fleet on the planet, armed with the largest aircraft carrier ever built, has been summarily executing, in violation of international law, small boats carrying fishermen in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, accused without any proof of being drug traffickers.
Faced with this desperate situation for the US, the Trump administration took on the mission of recolonizing Latin America. The modus operandi of this tactic depends on the weaknesses of each country.
US imperialism is reviving the Monroe Doctrine in its pursuit of regional hegemony. Attacks on the Bolivarian Revolution have been ongoing since Commander Hugo Chávez Frías came to power, including his kidnapping, the guarimbas (violent protests), currency seizures, attempted invasion, and the offer of $50 million to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro Moros. The US has imposed 930 sanctions against the Venezuelan people, who resist with unity, organization, and constant mobilization. Defending Venezuelan sovereignty in all areas means defending all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Given the cohesion of Venezuelan society against imperialism, recolonization there currently takes the form of the threat of direct external military intervention by the Pentagon and the US Department of Justice to divide the Bolivarian Armed Forces and overthrow the popular Maduro government.
In Mexico, the CIA fabricated yet another colorful rebellion, using as its pretext the supposed dissatisfaction of Generation Z with the government of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, which was easily quelled due to the artificiality of the regime change process that had been created.
In Brazil, the right wing was defeated at the polls (2022), in the streets (2025), and in the National Congress itself, where it holds a numerical majority, in important votes such as the “PEC da Bandidagem” (Amendment to the Constitution regarding criminal activity) and the income tax exemption for workers earning up to 5,000 reais. These anti-patriots and Trump agents, after losing in politics and the economy, also escalated their power in Brazil, playing the security card, executing 121 people in a massacre in Rio de Janeiro, also in defiance of the law, and attempting to create a legal situation to justify a US military intervention in Brazil, classifying organized crime as a terrorist organization. But they were defeated in this attempt as well, and Bolsonaro was arrested after an attempted escape.
We, the peoples of Latin America, including the workers of the USA itself, must mobilize, hold demonstrations in defense of our sovereignty and against all interference by imperialism in any of our nations, demand a complete end to tariffs, sanctions and blockades against Cuba or Venezuela, repel this threat and strengthen solidarity and our unity in favor of the great and socialist homeland.
