Never before had the almost bicentennial prediction of the Liberator Simón Bolívar about the behavior of the United States, when he stated in 1829 that that country seemed destined to plague America with misery in the name of freedom, been so valid. This February 26, 2025, abruptly and inexplicably, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, revoked the oil licenses granted to U.S. companies by the previous administration of that country to operate in Venezuelan territory, in a public message denoting that this is a direct retaliation against Venezuela’s position of preserving its sovereignty and self-determination.

The countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) categorically reject this extortionist action, which seeks to harm the economic, political and social stability of the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

ALBA-TCP considers it extremely contradictory that the current government of the United States, which boasts so much about its policies to control migration to its territory, imposes measures to affect the oil industry, the heart of the Venezuelan economy, while disregarding the fact that similar actions in past years caused notable migratory flows to the United States.

By reaffirming their absolute rejection of this imperialist measure, the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance demand unrestricted respect for the sovereignty, independence and the right to development of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as for International Law and the Charter of the United Nations, through the immediate lifting of all extortive and coercive unilateral measures against the governments and free peoples of Our America and the entire world.

Caracas, February 27, 2025