Caracas, March 11, 2025 – As part of the forum organized by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America–Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) in collaboration with the Bolivarian Military Academy of Venezuela, the plan to dismantle Syria was the subject of debate this Tuesday.

Venezuela’s ambassador to that nation, José Gregorio Biomorgi, opened the conference on Syria and its role in the current geopolitical landscape. He began his address by emphasizing that Syria’s geographical location, which connects several countries to the Mediterranean, makes it a strategic territory and a focal point for capitalist and imperialist interests.

“This grants Syria a special status as a bridge between East Asia and the Mediterranean,” the diplomat affirmed, while recalling that since 1997, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had planned to invade various territories, including Syria.

Furthermore, Biomorgi stated that what has unfolded in Syria is not a civil war, but rather a “terrorist war” sponsored by the United States, which has used “both internal and external means to destroy it.”

The ambassador asserted that the plan against Syria is not new, as the United States has merely reshaped its interventions and continues to finance terrorist groups in the Middle East. Today, a terrorist movement dominates Syria.

Syria’s crisis, he explained, has some of its roots in the country’s refusal to support the invasion of Iraq. “The United States never forgave Syria for not backing the invasion of Iraq and for providing its territory for logistical support,” Biomorgi detailed.

The ongoing crisis in Syria continues to cause suffering both for those still living in the country and for those forced to flee due to the despair sown by imperial forces.

“This is the empire’s strategy—to demoralize, to make young people believe there is no future, so they leave. That is precisely what was applied in Syria—a country that has endured 13 years of war,” the ambassador stated.

Biomorgi urged Venezuelan youth to study history in depth, to thoroughly analyze the case of Syria and other nations invaded by the United States, as the same imperial strategies applied there are also being used against the Bolivarian homeland.