{"id":14383,"date":"2025-12-03T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/?p=14383"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:54:19","slug":"trumps-looming-forever-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/2025\/12\/trumps-looming-forever-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Looming \u201cForever War\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he present moment is exceptionally dangerous for the nations and peoples of Latin America and for communities across the United States. The actions of the U.S. government put us all at risk.<\/p>\n

While the Trump regime\u2019s murderous bombing of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean are world-class crimes in their own right, they are not happening in isolation. They openly signal Trump\u2019s and his administration\u2019s intention to wage war on Venezuela<\/em> in order to install a pro-U.S. puppet regime in that country or to compel the existing government to surrender Venezuela\u2019s oil resources to U.S. corporate exploitation.<\/p>\n

The pretext for the boat bombings is a transparent lie. Venezuela does not produce fentanyl, which is responsible for most U.S. drug-related deaths, and less than 10 percent of the illegal drugs that enter the U.S. go through Venezuela. These murders are not about \u201cstopping narco-terrorism;\u201d they\u2019re about displaying imperial power to assassinate at will without even the appearance of arrest or trial.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also intimately connected to the same contempt for judicial process or \u201crule of law\u201d happening in U.S. cities and towns, where masked terrorist gangs called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) snatch and disappear people off the streets, work sites, stores and day care centers in immigrant communities, treating their people as subhumans without rights or recourse.<\/p>\n

The racism of this campaign is undisguised. At the same time that Trump is assaulting Venezuelan asylum seekers and eliminating refugee admissions in 2026, he\u2019s making an exception to bring seven thousand white Afrikaners into the U.S. on the absurd pretense of \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The big, beautiful resistance rising up against ICE raids in our communities needs to be joined by antiwar mobilizations to stop Trump\u2019s assault on Venezuela and Latin America. Trump ran for president deceptively promising his MAGA base that he would end the United States\u2019 \u201cforever wars.\u201d\u00a0 In office, he\u2019s not only continued support for a Israeli-U.S. genocide in Gaza, he\u2019s now also pursuing a course that would produce continental chaos in Latin America.<\/p>\n

The Trump gang\u2019s goal is not only crushing whatever hopes remain from the early 2000s \u201cBolivarian Revolution.\u201d It aims to isolate Colombia\u2019s moderately progressive government, strengthen Trump\u2019s alliance with the far-right regime of Argentina, and embolden the military forces hoping to restore neo-fascist rule in Brazil under Trump\u2019s friend Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n

The Maduro government in Venezuela is repressive and unpopular. Despite its claims, it does not sustain a socialist economy. We are not supporters of this regime. Along with the crippling criminal sanctions imposed by U.S. imperialism on Venezuela, Maduro shares some responsibility for the catastrophic economic situation and social calamity which has driven millions of Venezuelans to leave the country.<\/p>\n