The Canadian Network on Cuba unequivocally condemns and rejects the United States’ kidnapping of President Maduro and U.S. military attacks on Venezuelan civilians. It constitutes a blatant violation of international law, national sovereignty, freedom of navigation, and the fundamental principles of peace and self-determination.
We demand that the Government of Canada publicly and unequivocally condemn these U.S. actions and take all measures within its power to defend international law, oppose unilateral sanctions and armed interdictions, and work actively to de-escalate tensions and uphold peace in Latin America and the Caribbean. Silence or complicity only emboldens aggression and fatally undermines Canada’s stated commitment to a rules-based international order.
We call on all peace-loving and justice seeking people to oppose this flagrant assault on the rights of the Venezuelan people and the wider region, and to resist the dangerous normalization of imperial
war, resource plunder, and “might-makes right” geopolitics. We must not allow the world to descend further into a lawless order where imperialist powers wage unrelenting aggression and punish nations for exercising their sovereign right to choose their own path.
Canadian Network on Cuba