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The Democratic Socialists of America, the nation’s largest socialist group with ties to left-wing leaders such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, published a lengthy rebuke of the U.S. capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, demanding he and his wife be returned to power as they face criminal charges on U.S. soil.
“The Trump Administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela,” the DSA published in a rebuke Saturday. “This is a nakedly imperialist war to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporations and to force US hegemony over Latin America — the new ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine. This war is illegal both under international law and the laws governing the declaration of war within the United States.”
President Donald Trump confirmed a successful strike on Venezuela Saturday morning in a military operation that did not kill any U.S. military personnel, did not damage U.S. military equipment and yielded the arrests of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on sweeping narcotics charges.
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 millions of pounds of cocaine to the U.S. Trump had vowed to curb the flow of illicit drugs into the U.S. while on the campaign trail, before imposing tariffs on nations such as China over deadly fentanyl or boat strikes in the Carribean targeting suspected drug traffickers from Venezuela when he took office for his second term nearly a year ago.
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Nicolas Maduro was captured by the U.S. military Jan. 3, 2026. (Jesus Vargas/Getty Images)
The Democratic Socialists of America hit back in its statement that “Trump’s war has nothing to do with drug trafficking.”
“There is no substantiated…
