The Member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) reject the aggressions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, including unilateral coercive measures against State officials, announced this January 10, 2025, during the inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro Moros for the 2025-2031 constitutional period.

The unscrupulous extortive and criminal measures imposed in unison by the U.S., Canadian, British and European Union governments, while the presidential swearing-in ceremony was taking place, reflect the cruelty, complicity and obvious premeditation of governments of the corporate West to jeopardize the peace and stability of a free, sovereign and independent nation such as Venezuela.

As a wicked complement to the plan of aggression in this new stage, the U.S. Department of State, without the slightest legal basis, issues announcements with rewards against the President of Venezuela and several of his collaborators, seeking to damage the Venezuelan institutionality and jeopardize the security and integrity of those affected and, consequently, to threaten the peace of the country. Likewise, they announce visa restrictions against Venezuelan citizens, showing actions contrary to International Law and the most elementary civil standards.

The peoples and governments of ALBA-TCP express their total repudiation of these aggressive measures maliciously plotted against Venezuela, with the certainty that President Nicolás Maduro, with his experience and wisdom, will know how to lead the Venezuelan nation along the path of prosperity and peace, in spite of the imperial ambitions hovering over Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Caracas, January 11, 2025