Maduro is arming citizens in preparation for the impending invasion

Maduro is preparing for invasion — because the US never tires of “liberating” oil

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has ordered a mass distribution of arms to citizens across the country to arm workers against a likely invasion by the US. This comes after weeks of attacks, manoeuvres and posturing by Donald Trump, whose regime has admitted it wants Venezuela’s huge oil and gas reserves.

In a speech, Maduro said that the weapons will go:

to the coasts, the mountains, cities, villages, plains, hamlets, borders, popular neighborhoods, all in order to defend our rights, our peace, our lives, and our sovereignty.

In January, Maduro issued a similar order against an expected US-backed coup with far-right, pro-US figures at its head – one of whom has now been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize despite welcoming Trump’s murderous attacks on Venezuela’s ordinary people and illegal $50m bounty on Maduro’s head. Maduro responded to the bounty by offering a similar reward for the Epstein files of paedophile Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein, in which Trump is said to feature heavily.

Nobel Peace Prize ‘winner’ Maria Corina Machado:

I totally support [Trump’s] strategy and I’ve said on behalf of the Venezuelan people that we are very grateful. I think it is the right thing to do. It’s courageous. It’s visionary. But attacking a speedboat? Killing 11 citizens? “I’m in favour of the US dismantling this criminal structure.

Eight million Venezuelans belong to civilian militias sworn to defend the country from internal or external threats.

Featured image via the Canary

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Comments 1

Airlane1979 says:

7 months ago

Maduro is no socialist president of the working class. The Left Opposition within Venezuela released a statement on their website Venezuelan Voices on 7 October 2025 that includes: “For the left-wing organizations that call for the repudiation of this aggression by the US, this in no way implies endorsing the Maduro government; on the contrary, we reject it and openly confront it. We believe that in the face of the repressive and anti-worker policies that Maduro brutally unleashes against the working and poor people, only the Venezuelan working people have the duty of settling accounts with him, not any imperialist power.

But state repression and the violation of the fundamental rights of workers and the popular sectors is not the best way to stand up to a possible foreign invasion. With wages below a dollar a month and the imprisonment of critical voices and those who protest, we believe that this actually facilitates the work of US imperialism. To confront imperialism, workers and the people need the fullest freedom of action and organization.

Unleashing a force capable of confronting any imperialist military adventure to the end requires the deployment of workers’ and popular initiative, creativity, and energy, as well as the ability to fight against all enemies and for all rights. That is what we are committed to, from our anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist position.

Furthermore, we propose that it is necessary for the people and workers to mobilize to impose a workers’ and popular emergency plan for wages and pensions equal to the basic basket of goods, in defense of collective contracts, for greater investment in health, education, and public services, in defense of democratic freedoms, and for the full freedom of political prisoners.”

(‘Stop imperialist aggression against Venezuela. Trump’s troops out of the Caribbean and Latin America!’, Venezuelan Voices 7th October 2025)