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The Democratic Socialists of America, the nation’s largest socialist group with ties to left-wing leaders resembling New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani, revealed a prolonged rebuke of the U.S. seize of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, demanding he and his spouse be returned to energy as they face prison prices on U.S. soil.
“The Trump Administration has began an unlawful warfare in opposition to Venezuela,” the DSA revealed in a rebuke Saturday. “It is a nakedly imperialist warfare to put in a US puppet authorities that can give Venezuela’s oil assets over to US firms and to pressure US hegemony over Latin America — the brand new ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine. This warfare is unlawful each below worldwide legislation and the legal guidelines governing the declaration of warfare inside america.”
President Donald Trump confirmed a profitable strike on Venezuela Saturday morning in a navy operation that didn’t kill any U.S. navy personnel, didn’t injury U.S. navy tools and yielded the arrests of Maduro and his spouse, Cilia Flores, on sweeping narcotics prices.
The Venezuelan dictatorial president of Venezuela, who was first elected in 2013, is accused of working with cartels and narco gangs in South America and Mexico to distribute hundreds of thousands of kilos of cocaine to the U.S. Trump had vowed to curb the move of illicit medication into the U.S. whereas on the marketing campaign path, earlier than imposing tariffs on nations resembling China over lethal fentanyl or boat strikes within the Carribean focusing on suspected drug traffickers from Venezuela when he took workplace for his second time period almost a yr in the past.
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Nicolas Maduro was captured by the U.S. navy Jan. 3, 2026. (Jesus Vargas/Getty Pictures)
The Democratic Socialists of America hit again in its assertion that “Trump’s warfare has nothing to do with drug trafficking.”
“There isn’t a substantiated proof that high-level members of the Venezuelan authorities are ‘narco-terrorists,'” the DSA wrote. “But, the Trump administration is utilizing this declare because the pretext for this unlawful warfare. That is one other regime-change warfare to steal one other nation’s oil, similar to the failed warfare in opposition to Iraq, and to crush any resistance to US imperialism. Trump’s warfare will solely impoverish the individuals of Latin America.”
Trump celebrated the strike as an enormous success over the weekend, celebrating to the media that Maduro and his spouse have been swiftly captured whereas commending the navy for its execution of the operation.
“The US navy is the strongest and most fearsome navy on the planet. By far. With capabilities and expertise our enemies can scarcely start to think about. We have now the very best tools wherever on the planet,” he mentioned Saturday throughout a press convention on the strike.
The Democratic Socialists of America is supported by a handful of left-wing politicians and lawmakers. Most just lately, longtime DSA member Mamdani rose by means of the ranks of New York politics and was elected mayor of the Large Apple within the November election, whereas lawmakers resembling New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib are additionally distinguished members of the left-wing group and have obtained its endorsement in earlier elections.
Protesters rally exterior the White Home, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Washington, after the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his spouse in a navy operation. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photograph)
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The Democratic Socialists of America listed seven calls for following the seize of the dictator, together with that Maduro and his spouse be returned to Venezuela, “an finish to the failed ‘warfare on medication,'” an “fast finish to the warfare” together with the elimination of all navy presence within the “Caribbean and an finish to any operations with intervention functions pushed by SOUTHCOM.”
Maduro and his spouse are being held on the federal Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. Maduro is anticipated to be arraigned on Monday afternoon.
“Democratic Socialists of America calls on the individuals of america to protest and resist this unlawful warfare and to face in solidarity with the sovereign individuals of Venezuela,” the Democratic Socialists of America added.
Zohran Mamdani was elected the subsequent mayor of New York Metropolis throughout the November 2024 election cycle. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)
Left-wing political leaders resembling Mamdani have railed in opposition to the U.S. operation in Venezuela, with the newly minted mayor telling the general public that he spoke straight with Trump following the strike.
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“I known as the president and spoke with him on to register my opposition to this act and to clarify that it was an opposition primarily based on being against a pursuit of regime change, to the violation of federal worldwide legislation and a need to see that be constant each day,” Mamdani mentioned Saturday. “I registered my opposition, I made it clear and we left it at that.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the mayor’s workplace Monday morning inquiring if Mamdani helps the Democratic Socialists of America’s rebuke of the operation and checklist of seven calls for, however didn’t instantly obtain a reply.
President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago membership, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Seashore, Fla, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth pay attention. (Alex Brandon/The Related Press )
Extra average Democrats have additionally taken subject with the strike as unjustified and for failing to inform Congress forward of the strike, whereas Republicans have for essentially the most half backed the operation.
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“Nicolas Maduro wasn’t simply an illegitimate dictator; he additionally ran an unlimited drug-trafficking operation. That’s why he was indicted in U.S. court docket almost six years in the past for drug trafficking and narco-terrorism,” Cotton posted on X. “I simply spoke to @SecRubio, who confirmed that Maduro is in U.S. custody and can face justice for his crimes in opposition to our residents. I commend President Trump and our courageous troops and law-enforcement officers for this unimaginable operation.”
