The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) has expressed concern over the presence of U.S. military forces and “ongoing provocative actions” in the Caribbean Sea, which they view as a significant threat to the peace, security, and rights of the Venezuelan people and other nations in the region.
“The PCP deplores the silence of the Portuguese government in the face of the U.S. bellicose blackmail and provocations, as well as its failure to denounce and condemn the military threats made by the Trump Administration against Venezuela — a country home to hundreds of thousands of Portuguese — which constitute a flagrant violation of the principles of the UN Charter and international law,” the statement reads.
The PCP believes the “interventionist escalation” and what it refers to as the “subversive action of American imperialism against Venezuela” are part of the “ongoing policy of interference, blockade, and destabilization,” now through military means, against the Bolivarian people.
Highlighting the aspirations of Latin American and Caribbean peoples for peace, the PCP welcomed the recent rejection in a referendum of a constitutional revision in Ecuador that would have allowed the re-establishment of foreign military bases in the country.
Since September 1, U.S. Armed Forces have destroyed approximately 20 vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, near Venezuela and Colombia, executing at least 83 individuals extrajudicially, allegedly labeling them as “narcoterrorists.”
According to official sources, around 10,000 soldiers have been mobilized, and one of the main U.S. Navy vessels, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the Pentagon’s largest, has been positioned off the Venezuelan coast.
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump met with U.S. military commanders to discuss various action plans, on which he remains “strategically undecided.”
