U.S. Imperialism

The African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) unequivocally condemns the U.S. military attack on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and First Lady Cilia Flores de Maduro. Carried out unilaterally by the U.S. executive without congressional approval and cynically framed as a response to “narco-terrorism,” this act represents a dangerous escalation of U.S. imperialism and a blatant violation of Venezuelan sovereignty and international law. As Chairman Omali Yeshitela has long stated, the colonizer makes and justifies its own rules—just as slavery was once legal, today the U.S. invents legal pretexts to rationalize invasion, regime change, and the seizure of resources. The contradictions of this attack were laid bare when U.S. officials openly centered Venezuela’s oil and issued threats against other nations in the region, exposing the true aim of enforcing U.S. hegemony and punishing governments that refuse subservience. As African women living under U.S. domestic colonialism, we recognize this aggression for what it is: calculated, deceitful, and imperial. ANWO stands in unwavering solidarity with the Venezuelan people and with all nations resisting colonial domination in the Western Hemisphere and beyond.