Maduro calls on the people to resist
Published in Resumen Latinoamericano, November 14, 2025.
Translation, John Catalinotto
On Nov. 14, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro urged the peoples [of the Americas] to rebel “against imperialism” [the U.S. imposed rule] and “its attempt to bring war” to the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Maduro calls on a people’s battle to stop imperialist war.
“We must cultivate the consciousness and permanent rebellion of the peoples. And of everyone. If we all rebel against the empire of evil and the Nazis, who can stand against us? […]
“As a revolutionary, I say: If all the conscious peoples of our America rebel against imperialism and its attempt to bring war, who can stand against us? No one. ‘Never, never, never,’” the president said during his participation in a meeting of legal experts in international law held in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
Lessons from history
In the context of a historical reflection on the emergence of international law and the need to scrupulously respect it, at the risk of otherwise causing serious damage, the Venezuelan leader recalled that Nazi Germany systematically attacked the international order that emerged after World War I, in order to impose its supremacy on other nations.
“The first thing Nazism did when it emerged in Europe, the first thing [Adolf] Hitler did, was to begin to flout the founding pacts of international law and to begin to believe in and postulate the preeminence of his power above international law,” he said, invoking a supposed “international legal exceptionalism.”
Thus, he said, “The first thing Nazism and Fascism did was to disregard the borders of countries, the right of peoples to peace […], prepare their powerful weapons to bomb the cities of Spain, support the coup d’état by [Francisco] Franco — another criminal fascist — to […] demonstrate, as has happened in Gaza, that a country could be destroyed and that all others had to retreat in the face of the intimidating military power of Nazism and Fascism.”
In the same vein, he recounted that, after the crushing of Republican Spain, “the weakness of the powerful capitals of Europe at the time, London and Paris,” which chose to back down in the face of Nazi-fascism, contributed decisively to the horror of World War II.
