PRC Statement on President Trump’s attacks on Venezuela:
January 14, 2026
Photo: President Donald Trump attends a roundtable with energy officials and executives from the oil industry, White House Photo, January, 2026
The Peace Resource Center (PRC) of San Diego condemns the attacks of President Trump and his subordinates on Venezuela: 1) the “extrajudicial killings” of at least 115 people in small boats from Venezuela ever since September 2025, all allegedly but without any proof for running lethal drugs to the U.S., 2) the destruction of a dock in Venezuela from which some of the boats allegedly had embarked, 3) the blockade of Venezuelan ships, 4) the seizing of Venezuelan oil tankers, 5) the spying operations in the country in preparation for 6) the attack on Caracas, 7) the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, 8) the killing of at least 100 Venezuelan and Cuban soldiers in order to get to them, 9) their deportation to New York, and 10) their imprisonment in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The PRC condemns these attacks 1) as acts of war initiated by President Trump without a Congressional declaration of war or prior authorization from Congress and thus in violation of the U.S. Constitution and U.S. law including the War Powers Resolution of 1973, 2) as acts of war in violation of international law and of the international “rules-based order” long proclaimed by the U.S., and 3) as acts of war intended a) specifically to enable the U.S. to seize control of the vast oil reserves of Venezuela, b) effectively to enable the U.S. to control and maintain as much of the threatened petrodollar-based international oil trade as possible for as long as possible, and c) effectively to deflect and distract public attention from other explosive issues including the Epstein files, the Palestinian genocide, the affordability crisis, and the precarious condition of our 37 trillion dollar debt-burdened U.S. economy.
Consequently, for the sake of peace in Venezuela, in the U.S., and all around the world, and without any appeal to political partisanship, the Peace Resource Center of San Diego calls 1) on the Senate to pass S.J.Res. 98, a joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from the hostilities within or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress, and 2) on all of us to urge our Senators to vote for this joint resolution this week (same as they voted not to table the essentially identical S.J.Res. 90 last week).
Peace Resource Center of San Diego Board
January 11, 2026