Earlier this year, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped during a U.S. military operation and transferred to a prison in NY.
For years, the U.S. government and corporate media have worked to manufacture consent for intervention in Venezuela through sanctions, disinformation campaigns, political isolation and endless narratives portraying Venezuela as a threat that must be controlled
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Dear President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores,
We are writing to you from across the United States and around the world with a simple message:
You are not alone.
We have witnessed how narratives are manufactured to justify intervention, destabilization, and punishment against countries that refuse to submit to U.S. power. Today, your imprisonment in New York following the January military operation in Venezuela has become another painful symbol of that reality.
But we want you to know that they do not represent us.
Many of us believe deeply in the right of Latin American people to determine their own future free from sanctions, coercion, foreign interference, media manipulation, and war. No prison cell can erase the dignity of a people fighting for sovereignty.
We hold the hope that one day soon you will return home, share arepas with your people, dance salsa together again, laugh with your family, and walk freely under the Caribbean sun.
We send you strength during this difficult moment, and we send solidarity to your family and to all Venezuelans living through uncertainty, grief, and aggression.
We believe another future is possible: one rooted in sovereignty, dignity, peace, and self-determination.
From communities across the world, we want you to know: You are not alone. Venezuela is not alone.
In solidarity,