ACTION ALERT: No War on Venezuela
World BEYOND War

Trump has now bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and claimed that he would run the country. This is utter destruction of any rule of law.

World BEYOND War has chapters all over the world, including in Venezuela.

The United Nations Charter makes it a crime to threaten war and a crime to wage war except in defense or by UN authorization, neither of which is the case here, and neither of which has even been alleged here.

The alleged shortcomings of a government provide no legal basis for a foreign government to attempt to overthrow it.

The illegal drug trade, even where real, provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims about the illegal drug trade regarding both Venezuela and over 100 people thus far killed in boats with U.S. missiles from drones are without evidence and widely considered not even plausible.

Seizing a nation’s oil provides no legal basis for waging war or committing murder.

Sanctions illegally imposed on Venezuela by the United States, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, have now been exacerbated by acts of war including the declaration of a no-fly zone and of a naval blockade.

Even United States Army Judge Advocates General have denounced Trump’s actions as “patently illegal”.

Sixty-three percent of people in the United States, a purportedly representative democracy, in a recent poll oppose military action in Venezuela.

Wars normalize killing, degrade our culture, proliferate weaponry, fuel arms races, devastate the natural environment, cost a financial fortune desperately needed for human and environmental crises, shred the rule of law, spread bigotry and xenophobia, and increase terrorism.

We must reject Trump’s recent announcement of support for an imperialistic corollary of the Monroe Doctrine.

Press Conference on Venezuela
January 14 at the Capitol

WHAT: Hear from the leaders of organizations engaged in urging Congress to represent U.S. majority opinion and put an end to war, hostilities, and sanctions against Venezuela.
WHEN: 12:00 pm Noon on Wednesday, January 14, 2026
WHERE: House Triangle (just Southeast of U.S. Capitol)

Background:
World BEYOND War is delivering a petition on Wednesday and planning a global day of action: https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-war-on-venezuela

CODEPINK is on Capitol Hill every day urging the U.S. government to abide by its own laws and practice democracy at home: https://www.codepink.org/venezuela

ROOTSACTION has been flooding Congress with emails:
https://rootsaction.org/force-trump-reverse-course-venezuela

ACTION: Take Part in Actions All Over the World on January 17, 2026

We are calling for an end to U.S. hostility toward Venezuela, including sanctions, threats, and war.

• End all war and hostilities toward Venezuela.
• Cut off the funding that allows such crimes.
• Free Venezuela’s kidnapped president.
• Bring all U.S. troops and equipment back to the United States from Venezuela and vicinity.
• Cancel the brutal economic sanctions, naval blockade, and no-fly-zone.
• Renounce overthrows and the Monroe Doctrine.
• Impeach, convict, and remove President Trump from office.

Join us for a Global Day of Action on Saturday, January 17 in solidarity with Venezuela by organizing an action in your town! Actions can take many shapes and sizes, from rallies, vigils, and sit-ins at U.S. embassies, military bases, elected officials’ offices, marches and protests in town squares, to teach-ins and forums, to letter-writing, phone-banking, petitioning, passing local resolutions, and much more.

Q&A Venezuela Explainer with WBW’s Gabriel Aguirre

An incisive breakdown and analysis of the January 3 attack on Venezuela, and the new yet very old U.S. security strategy of domination behind it.

• The United Nations Charter makes it a crime to threaten war and a crime to wage war except in defense or by UN authorization, neither of which is the case, and neither of which has even been alleged
• President Donald Trump’s claims about the illegal drug trade regarding both Venezuela and approximately 100 people thus far killed in boats with U.S. missiles from drones are without evidence and widely considered not even plausible
• Sanctions illegally imposed on Venezuela by the United States, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, have now been exacerbated by acts of war including the declaration of a no-fly zone and of a naval blockade
• Even United States Army Judge Advocates General have denounced Trump’s actions as “patently illegal”
• In a recent poll, 63% of people in the United States oppose military action in Venezuela.

ACTION ALERT: Sign the Petition
Venezuela: No War, No Overthrow, No Coup, No Sanctions

We call on the U.S. government to abide by the rule of law and the will of the U.S. public, and to leave behind its long history of interventions, overthrows, and coups, which has included efforts to overturn the government of Venezuela many times, including for much of the past decade.

Trump has now bombed Venezuela, kidnapped its president, and claimed that he would run the country. This is utter destruction of any rule of law.

The U.S. government had been openly offering $50 million for the arrest of the president of Venezuela, under a false narrative, even as it invites the prime minister of Israel to speak in Washington, despite an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. The U.S. military has sent war ships toward the coast of Venezuela, leading that nation to make preparations for war.

At the same time, the U.S. government is illegally sanctioning Venezuela, and sanctioning countries that trade with Venezuela. A recent study found these sanctions to have been the principle cause of the worst depression without a war in world history and tens of thousands of deaths.

Basta! We call on the U.S. government to retire the Monroe Doctrine, shut down the Southern Command, close its bases, cease training Latin American forces in violence, and instead strive to learn something from Latin America about the ways of peace and disarmament.

The U.S. government has a hard enough time installing decent law abiding individuals in its own offices in Washington, D.C. It needs to focus on that problem and halt all efforts to deprive other nations of the right to govern themselves.

Ni guerra, ni derrocamiento, ni golpe, ni sanciones

Hacemos un llamamiento al gobierno de EE.UU. para que respete el estado de derecho y la voluntad de los ciudadanos estadounidenses, y para que deje atrás su larga historia de intervenciones, derrocamientos y golpes de estado, que ha incluido esfuerzos para derrocar al gobierno de Venezuela en muchas ocasiones, incluso durante gran parte de la última década.

El gobierno de EE.UU. ofrece ahora abiertamente 50 millones de dólares por la detención del presidente de Venezuela, bajo una falsa narrativa, incluso mientras invita al primer ministro de Israel a hablar en Washington, a pesar de una orden de arresto de la Corte Penal Internacional. El ejército de EE.UU. ha enviado ahora buques de guerra hacia la costa de Venezuela, llevando a esa nación a hacer preparativos para la guerra.

Al mismo tiempo, el gobierno de Estados Unidos está sancionando ilegalmente a Venezuela, y sancionando a los países que comercian con Venezuela. Un estudio reciente encontró que estas sanciones han sido la causa principal de la peor depresión sin guerra en la historia del mundo y de decenas de miles de muertes.

¡Basta! Hacemos un llamamiento al gobierno de EE.UU. para que retire la Doctrina Monroe, cierre el Comando Sur, cierre sus bases, deje de entrenar a las fuerzas latinoamericanas en la violencia y, en su lugar, se esfuerce por aprender algo de América Latina sobre los caminos de la paz y el desarme.

El gobierno de Estados Unidos ya tiene bastantes dificultades para instalar a personas decentes que respeten la ley en sus propias oficinas de Washington, D.C. Debe centrarse en ese problema y poner fin a todos los esfuerzos por privar a otras naciones del derecho a gobernarse a sí mismas.