WendyLea #HandsOffUhuru

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[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Maduro the "isolated dictator with no popular support" is facing the 8th straight day of nationwide marches in his defense

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

The illegal bombing of Venezuela is illegal.

The kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife is illegal.

EVERY living US president has committed illegal military actions against poor countries.

Trump is not an aberation. Trump is more of the same.

[Bassem Youssef Commentary @bassem_youssef9]

Western values

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

A TIMELINE OF US POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA…

Decades of theft, plunder, and exploitation.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

I am a prisoner of war, said @NicolasMaduro in the New York Court House. Indeed he is. Free President Maduro!

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

everything Chavez said has proven to be right: "The president of the US talks as if he owns the world. What type of "democracy" do you impose with marines, invasions and bombs? If the world could speak with one voice, it would say: Imperialist yankee, go home!"

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Last night's attack on Venezuela fits into a long history of brazen US interventions in Latin America and the world.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Listen…
And you will understand who the good guys are.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

A list of the US regime change efforts in Latin America over the years:

1846–1848 – Mexico
1898 – Cuba
1903 - Panama
1906–1909 - Cuba
1909 - Nicaragua
1912–1933 - Nicaragua
1913 -Mexico
1914 - Mexico
1915–1934 - Haiti
1916–1924 - Dominican Republic
1916–1917 - Mexico
1932 – El Salvador
1933–1940s – Cuba
1944 – Guatemala
1946 – Bolivia
1948 – Costa Rica
1952 – Cuba
1953–1954 – British Guiana
1954 – Guatemala
1960s: Cold War Escalation
1960–1961 – Cuba
1961 – Cuba
1961 – Dominican Republic
1962–1963 – Brazil
1963 – Dominican Republic
1963 – Ecuador
1963 – Honduras
1964 – Brazil
1964 – Bolivia
1965 – Dominican Republic
1966–1996 – Guatemala
1970s: Operation Condor Era
1970–1973 – Chile
1971 – Bolivia
1973 – Chile
1973 – Uruguay
1976 – Argentina
1976–1983 – Region-wide (Operation Condor)
1979 – Nicaragua
1980–1989 – Nicaragua
1980–1992 – El Salvador
1980s – Honduras
1980–1992 – Guatemala
1980s – Jamaica
1982 – Bolivia
1983 – Grenada
1989 – Panama
1991 – Haiti
1994 – Haiti
2002 – Venezuela
2004 – Haiti
2009 – Honduras
2019 – Bolivia
2017–present – Venezuela
2018–present – Nicaragua

Every U.S. president from 1901–present has been involved in Latin American regime change. The US remains an imperialist presence in Latin America.

[Uhuru Solidarity Movement @UhuruSolidarity]

Today at 3:00 PM ET, Chairman Omali Yeshitela addresses the African Nation regarding the U.S. military assault on Venezuela on The Burning Spear TV YouTube, Burning Spear Media Rumble and Chairman Omali Yeshitela Facebook.

#HandsOffVenezuela #ColonialismMustGo #ReparationsNow #UhuruMeansFreedom #AntiColonialHumanRights

[WendyLea #HandsOffUhuru @WendyLea66]

Tune into the telethon: https://t.co/vp7QkmcdqW
Make your contribution of reparations.

[WendyLea #HandsOffUhuru @WendyLea66]

What happened in Dimond Canyon? https://t.co/vqB7Wnl0VK

[MO AMER @realmoamer]

This Father’s Day, join me in calling for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.

[Uhuru Solidarity Movement @UhuruSolidarity]

Via black_power_blueprint (follow on Instagram!):
#BlackPowerBlueprint bringing power back to the Northside! USM Chair Jesse Nevel calls for Volunteers to lend their skills and time to help rebuild North St. Louis. #StLouisTornado #STL #Reparations

[Harvard Undergraduate PSC @HarvxrdPSC]

“I center Palestine today not just because of its scale of atrocity, but because of our complicity in it.” - Zehra Imam, Harvard Divinity School ‘25 🇵🇸

Watch the commencement speech for Palestine below.

[Uhuru Solidarity Movement @UhuruSolidarity]

Via black_power_blueprint:
Black Community Tornado Response Meeting Sunday June 1st at 3pm CT at the Uhuru House in #STL.
Hosted by the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM).
#stlouistornado
#BlackPowerBlueprint #blackeconomy

[Uhuru Solidarity Movement @UhuruSolidarity]

Black Community Tornado Response Meeting hosted by InPDUM is LIVE now! #STL #StLouisTornado #CleanUpSTL #BlackPowerMatters
https://t.co/oTAqrbMFCg

[WendyLea #HandsOffUhuru @WendyLea66]

Register for events in the SF Bay for Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3. https://t.co/ajfDdLxug7
#freespeech #uhuru3
#handsoffuhuru #reparations

[Uhuru Solidarity Movement @UhuruSolidarity]

Join us May 20-22nd for events in #Oakland, #SanFrancisco and #SanJose featuring APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess, one of the Uhuru 3 and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, discussing the role of white solidarity with African liberation.
#WhiteSolidarityWithBlackPower