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Together For A Just World

STATEMENT OF CONDEMNATION REGARDİNG THE U.S.
MILITARY INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA

As the International Labour Confederation (ILC), we strongly condemn the military
intervention carried out by the United States against Venezuela. This intervention
constitutes a clear violation of the prohibition on the use of force enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations, the principle of sovereign equality of states, and the
most fundamental norms of international law.
What is unfolding in Venezuela today demonstrates that the claim of a “rules-based
international order” has been effectively abandoned. In its place, a naked politics of
power shaped by U.S. interests has once again become dominant. The complete
disregard for international law, universal norms, and multilateral mechanisms sets
a dangerous precedent that threatens not only Venezuela, but global peace and
security as a whole.

This intervention is a clear manifestation of energy geopolitics, great power rivalry,
and the convergence of sanctions and military force. Once again, the discourse of
democracy and human rights has been instrumentalized to legitimize geostrategic
calculations. This approach undermines not only Venezuela’s sovereignty, but also
destabilizes the international system in its entirety.
Historical experience leaves no room for ambiguity: no country in which the United
States has carried out military interventions has achieved lasting and inclusive sta-
bility. The invasion of Iraq led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, the
destruction of the country’s social fabric, and widespread regional instability. Libya
has effectively been fragmented and transformed into a geography of permanent
conflict. Similar interventionist policies, from Afghanistan to Syria, have produced
nothing but devastation, civil war, forced displacement, and enduring insecurity.

This latest intervention in Venezuela will not yield a different outcome. On the cont-
rary, it will deepen instability within the country and across the region, increase for-
ced migration, exacerbate the economic crisis, and intensify social devastation. As
always, the cost of this process will be borne not by political and economic elites,
but by workers, the poor, women, and other vulnerable segments of society. Wars
and military interventions create new areas of profit for capital, while generating
unemployment, precarity, poverty, and displacement for working people.

As the ILC, we emphasize in particular that remaining silent in the face of such un-
lawful interventions today will pave the way for similar actions to be repeated more

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