Several Filipino lawmakers expressed opposition to the United States’ incursion into Venezuela, which has resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, and the looming establishment of a Washington-run administration in the Latin American state.
“We, the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives, vehemently condemn the brazen military aggression perpetrated by the United States government against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” the group said in a statement on Sunday.
“This unprovoked attack on Venezuelan territory represents yet another chapter in US imperialism’s long history of violating the sovereignty of nations that refuse to submit to its diktat,” the Makabayan bloc added.
This position was echoed by the Akbayan Party, which stated that it “condemns in the strongest possible terms the Trump regime’s unilateral and blatant military attack on Venezuela, including the removal of its top leader.
“This act constitutes a direct assault on Venezuela’s sovereignty and on the people’s right to self-determination, and is a clear violation of the United Nations Charter and international law,” it added.
Meanwhile, Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Partylist Rep. Leila De Lima said, “It is most regrettable that the United States under Trump has once again regressed into an aggressor state not unlike China, Russia, and Israel. The attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Maduro undermines the rules-based international order, thus setting a terrible precedent of heightened aggression by superpowers.”
“It normalizes Russia’s invasion and continued war on Ukraine, China’s expansionist aggression in the South and East China Seas, and Israel’s genocide on the Palestinian people. It throws the global order back to a barbaric “might makes right” regime, discarding all the progress achieved by the United Nations eighty years after the end of World War 2,” she added.
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