New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has blasted the administration of US President Donald Trump for waging a military aggression against Venezuela, saying the regime change attack constitutes an “act of war” and a breach of international law.
Mamdani made the remarks in an X post on Saturday, after the US military carried out illegal strikes on Venezuela and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and his wife from their residence in the capital city of Caracas.
He said Trump’s “blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home.”
“Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law,” he added.
Maduro, who was taken to New York, is currently being held at a detention center in Brooklyn and is set to face alleged drugs and weapons charges in Manhattan federal court.
Trump said that the US will “run” Venezuela until a “judicious transition” and that Washington will seize the South American country’s massive oil reserves.
Also on Saturday, Mamdani said at a press conference that he had called Trump personally to object to the US military action in Venezuela.
“I registered my opposition, I made it clear and we left it at that,” he emphasized.
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Meanwhile, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a top ally-turned-critic of Trump who is resigning from Congress this week, took to Twitter to denounce the aggression against Venezuela.
She said that Americans are enraged as they are facing the increasing cost of living and learn about “scams and fraud of their tax dollars” amid Washington’s “regime change” efforts and its funding of “foreign wars.”
“Americans’ disgust with our own government’s never-ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going,” she added.
She also hit back at the US president’s claims that the attack on Venezuela helped counter drug-trafficking, saying 70 percent of US drug overdose deaths were due to fentanyl that entered the country via Mexico.
Greene further pointed to the Trump-issued pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez as an example of a contradiction of Trump’s policies.
Similarly, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejected Trump’s assertion that the attack on Venezuela was about drug trafficking.
“If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month,” she wrote on X, referencing the pardon of Hernandez, who was sentenced to decades in an American prison on drug trafficking charges. “It’s about oil and regime change.”
The US military aggression followed months of escalating pressure on Venezuela, including a buildup of forces in South America and lethal strikes on suspected drug boats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean, as well as threats against Maduro.
Caracas had warned that Washington was seeking a “regime change” in Venezuela with the ultimate goal of stealing the country’s massive oil wealth.
Source: Press TV
