Labor, social, political, and human rights organizations held a press conference this Monday in Buenos Aires, led by the CTA Autónoma, to condemn the kidnapping of Venezuela’s constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as the military actions carried out by the United States against Venezuelan territory, which they described as a grave violation of international law and the sovereignty of nations.

During the press conference, representatives of the organizations denounced the US military operation as an unprecedented act of imperialist interference in Latin America and warned that it sets an extremely dangerous precedent for regional stability by normalizing the use of force and the kidnapping of legitimate authorities of a sovereign state.

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At the conference, leaders from the CTA Autónoma and the CTA de las y los Trabajadores (Workers’ CTA), Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Taty Almeida, a leading figure in the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo–Founding Line, and leaders of the Left Front, including Myriam Bregman, all spoke, agreeing that Washington’s true objective is to control Venezuelan natural resources, particularly oil.

The organizations also confirmed the planned mobilization for Monday afternoon, scheduled for 5:00 PM, to express popular rejection of the military aggression and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president. The main gathering point is Plaza Italia, from where participants will march to the United States Embassy, ​​located in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, although some groups also raised the possibility of marching to the National Congress.

Among the participating organizations are the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), the Association of State Workers (ATE), student movements, feminist groups, and collectives such as Priests for the Poor, forming a broad social, labor, and political spectrum.

The decision to mobilize was adopted last Saturday at an emergency multisectoral meeting held at UTEP headquarters, where the organizations characterized the events in Venezuela as an imperialist coup and resolved to respond immediately in the streets.

At that meeting, they also condemned the Argentine government’s support for the US military intervention, considering it incompatible with the principles of non-intervention and self-determination of peoples.

The central slogans of the day are “Yankees Out of Venezuela” and “Latin America, Territory of Peace,” in defense of regional sovereignty and against all forms of foreign occupation or tutelage.

In a joint statement, the two CTAs warned that the United States’ interference in Venezuela constitutes a turning point, after which any country in the region could become the target of similar aggression aimed at seizing its strategic resources. “This takes us back to the era when the Northern power arrogated to itself the authority to invade countries to impose governments subservient to its interests,” they stated.

The human rights organizations emphasized that replacing a government through military action and proclaiming a temporary foreign administration amounts to a colonial occupation, absolutely incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations and current international law.

In response to the call for a demonstration, the Ministry of Security reinforced the police operation in the Palermo neighborhood, where a massive gathering of protesters is expected in the afternoon.

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