Read the latest editorial on US imperialist aggression against Venezuela here.
Monopoly media is continuing its efforts to promote the US imperialist aggression against Venezuela, now by twisting the text of a Venezuelan government security decree and trumping up stories of militias searching for collaborators as evidence of persecution.
The January 3 emergency decree was instituted the day US imperialism attacked the oppressed nation, killing over 100 soldiers and civilians and kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.
On January 5, the full text of the decree ordering Venezuelan police to “search, capture and process persons linked to promoting or supporting an armed attack of the United States of America” was published. Soon after, monopoly media—which has been in a protracted campaign to achieve and defend the submission of Venezuela to US imperialism—selectively quoted the text to imply a terror campaign against critics of the Venezuelan state. Their stories cite as examples a few monopoly journalists detained briefly for questioning, some searches of phones, and the very presence of armed masses in the streets defending the nation.
Reuters published a story 01/5 entitled “Venezuela orders police to find, arrest anyone involved in supporting U.S. attack-decree,” which was reposted by several monopoly media organs and used as the basis for a Fox News story, where the only part of the 14-article decree cited is the section on rooting out collaborators with US imperialism.
Not cited in the monopoly media is the subsequent article of the decree which states: “In the execution of this Decree, all measures will be taken to guarantee the rights to… freedom of thought, conscience and religion… due process; constitutional protection…”
The following day, monopoly newspapers The Guardian and The Telegraph reported on armed militias patrolling Venezuelan streets to “stifle any dissent,” and that it was “a stark demonstration to the population that the regime remained in charge.” The stories frame the armed mobilizations as attempts to terrorize the people into submission rather than a just response of the Venezuelan people in defense of their country against US aggression.
Contrary to the insinuations from these stories, resistance to US imperialist aggression has wide support in Venezuela, with thousands-strong demonstrations taking place in Caracas against the kidnapping of Maduro.
In August 2025, before the initiation of the mass murder of fishermen slandered as “drug traffickers” and all while CIA officials claimed that regime change was not a goal, the CIA had installed a covert team in Venezuela to track Maduro, as reported by monopoly outlets. In October, the ultra-reactionary Trump openly confirmed his authorization of CIA operations to overthrow Maduro in Venezuela. Later that month, then-Vice President Delcy Rodríguez reported that a false-flag operation was attempted by CIA-linked mercenaries in order to overthrow Maduro, and that the mercenaries had been captured. Monopoly media does not connect these important pieces of context that indicate a real possibility of CIA instigation of imperialist aggression from within.
Image: Members of the Colectivos, community organizations armed by the Venezuelan government, in Caracas, 2017. Wikimedia Commons.
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