But do they care about Venezuelans?
Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York, but in his first few days in office he appeared to be spending most of his time on foreign policy, that is, he has rejected the IHRA’s broad definition of antisemitism, in particular in relation to the unhinged criticism of Israel. He has come out foursquare for narco-trafficker, Hezbollah supporter, and killer Nicolás Maduro, demanding — demanding! — that he be freed and sent back to Venezuela to continue his ruinous rule. And the Democratic Socialists, of which Mamdani is one, have made the same demand of the administration. They are, you see, “Bolivarian Revolutionaries.” It’s an exciting time to be a communist in New York. “Mayor Mamdani’s comrades in DSA demand Trump release Nicolas Maduro: ‘Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution!,’” by Carl Campanile, New York Post, January 4, 2026:
Socialists of a feather flock together.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America want deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro returned to power.
The Democratic Socialists of America put out a lengthy statement demanding “the return of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores to Venezuela.”
Meanwhile, the DSA is starting a “join our “Hands Off Venezuela” to get the “imperialist” United States out of the socialist, oil-rich country.
“Solidarity with the people of Venezuela! Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution!”, separate DSA International Committee policy statement says.
In its statement on the removal of Maduro, the DSA claims the Trump administration has started “an illegal war” against Venezuela….
The DSA apparently wasn’t listening when Trump explained that the Americans would be investing billions in order to resurrect Venezuela’s oil production, providing the expertise needed to deal with the problems that lifting the heavy oil that Venezuela produces present, and then the country with the largest oil reserves in the world would be put back on the path of massive production, up to 3 million more barrels a day, which would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The whole point of the post-Maduro scenario is to bring back Venezuela’s ability to create its own wealth. How would such a plan “impoverish the people of Latin America”? DSA doesn’t say, because they can’t.
The DSA has not been paying attention to the Venezuelan demonstrators in their country and around the world, who have been expressing their delight that Maduro, the longtime tormentor of Venezuelans, who has allowed drug traffickers and Hezbollah terrorists free reign in his country, has now been deposed. The DSA upper-middle-class gringos know better: though he lost the last election and held onto power anyway, they insist that Maduro must now be put back in power. The Democratic Socialists must support any man President Trump opposes, for that very reason.
The call for all American forces to leave the Caribbean overlooks the aid those troops provide when natural disasters strike. The American military provides humanitarian aid — food, and medical aid of all types, but does so especially after major disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti that caused 250,000 deaths in 2010. It provides free health checks, dental care, and surgery for particularly difficult cases. --->READ MORE HERE
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The Democratic Socialists of America made seven demands of the Trump administration following the capture of Venezuela's Maduro
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 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. When he took office for his second term nearly a year ago, he imposed tariffs on nations such as China over deadly fentanyl or boat strikes in the Carribean targeting suspected drug traffickers from Venezuela.
The DSA hit back in its statement, saying, "Trump’s war has nothing to do with drug trafficking."
"There is no substantiated evidence that high-level members of the Venezuelan government are 'narco-terrorists,'" the DSA wrote. "Yet, the Trump administration is using this claim as the pretext for this illegal war. This is another regime-change war to steal another country’s oil, just like the failed war against Iraq, and to crush any resistance to US imperialism. Trump’s war will only impoverish the people of Latin America."
Trump called the strike a massive success over the weekend, celebrating to the media that Maduro and his wife were swiftly captured while commending the military for its execution of the operation.
"The United States military is the strongest and most fearsome military on the planet. By far. With capabilities and skills our enemies can scarcely begin to imagine. We have the best equipment anywhere in the world," he said Saturday during a press conference on the strike. --->READ MORE HERE
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