This week, Donald Trump said the United States will “run” Venezuela, “fix” its oil infrastructure, as he turns American oil companies loose to plunder the world’s largest oil reserve.
Trump’s clear violations of U.S. Constitution, international law, human rights and UN charters demonstrate what American empire looks like when it stops even remotely pretending to care about human life and speaks openly in the language of occupation, extraction, and domination.
Anyone who has paid attention to Latin America knows this scheme because it has been imposed again and again for more than a century.
Guatemala. Chile. Panama. Haiti. Nicaragua. Honduras. Bolivia. And now, again, Venezuela.
Years come and go, but the colonialist script stays the same:
Undermine a government. Design a coup or impose force. Install a compliant puppet leader. Silence dissent. Break resistance. Strip resources.
The U.S. government has drenched the hemisphere in blood for over 100 years for power and profit, and still has the nerve to call itself a force for freedom.
These crimes are carried out in our names and funded by our labor. Every airstrike, every naval blockade, every corporate windfall is financed by tax dollars pulled from working people like us.
We are told to accept this brutality as normal and to keep feeding the machine that eats other nations alive.
Together, we can refuse that submission.
I support mass action, including a general strike, because working people have the power to stop the flow of money and the false legitimacy that empire depends on.
I also believe elections matter because public office can be used as a weapon against this system rather than a tool of compliance.
As governor, we will move California away from participation in imperial violence and stand openly with people targeted by American aggression. American imperialism cannot function if the wealthiest most populace state in the Union fully and actively divests.
Together, we will push state divestment away from corporations that profit from sanctions warfare, private security, mass surveillance and militarized enforcement.
I will direct state contracting away from companies that build the machinery of blockade and occupation.
I will freeze any non-divested state spending by executive order, veto any legislation that is not divested, and appoint state agency board members who prioritize divestment.
I will use the power and visibility of the world’s fourth-largest economy to demand war powers enforcement.
If you are done watching this country behave like an occupying criminal while working families pay the bill, chip in today and help us build a movement that refuses complicity and fights for liberation with clear eyes and no apologies.
Peace and Power,
Butch Ware
Related Off-site Link:
Butch Ware for Governor: Strengthening California Together – Official Campaign Website.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Butch Ware on “Red & Blue vs Green Politics”
• Meet Some of the “People-Powered” Green Party Candidates for 2026 Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – November 26, 2025
• Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025
• Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly
• “The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly
• Progressive Perspectives on the Trump Regime’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela
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