All solidarity with the peoples of Latin America!

Editorial from the newspaper O Poder Popular (The People's Power) No. 107 (July 2026)

We are living through moments of extreme concern in Latin America. The desperate tragedy resulting from the recent earthquake in Venezuela claimed the lives of more than 4,500 people and injured around 17,000, with the UN estimating that up to 50,000 individuals may be missing. The difficulties in confronting this grave problem are treated by the bourgeois mainstream media as being the exclusive responsibility of the Venezuelan government, with not a single line of criticism directed at the invasion of the country provoked by U.S. imperialism, which kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, in addition to assassinating those who attempted to offer any resistance, such as the 32 Cuban heroes. Likewise, nothing is said about the blockade and sanctions promoted by the U.S. government, known as Unilateral Coercive Measures, which for years have suffocated the economy and directly affected Venezuela's infrastructure.

We also see the advancement of the U.S. siege against Cuba, with the intensification of the economic, financial, and commercial blockade, energy strangulation, and threats of aggression against the Cuban people, with the Trump government now announcing a new package of "sanctions" against ten Cuban entities, including the Ministry of Tourism, the Foreign Trade Business Group (Gecomex), the Maritime Port Transport Business Group (Gemar), the energy companies Enetec and Coreydan, the Territorial Troops Militias, and the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution.

Parallel to this, the recent electoral results in Peru and Colombia, with the victory, even if narrow, of far-right candidates and allegations of fraud and vote manipulation, demonstrate that fascism has created strong footholds in Latin America. A conglomerate of governments aligned with the interests of U.S. imperialism is taking shape, which already included the reactionary leaders of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

On the other hand, the large mobilizations called by the Workers' Central and organizations of Indigenous peoples in Bolivia, despite the government's entire repressive apparatus, point the way toward resistance and popular demonstrations to curb the growth of the far-right on our continent.

In Brazil, Bolsonarism plays the same shameful role of a fifth column for U.S. imperialism. While it poses as patriotic before the cameras, it conspires behind the scenes against national interests. While it wraps itself in the Brazilian flag, it kneels before the flag of the United States. While it speaks of sovereignty, it works to turn Brazil into a colony subordinated to Washington's interests.

The actions of the Trump government against Brazil dismantle any illusion held by those who believed it was possible to establish a relationship of trust with U.S. imperialism. As the PCB has always warned, imperialism has no permanent friends, partners, or allies. It has only interests, through which it seeks to impose the subjugation of peoples, control over markets, the appropriation of strategic wealth, and the imposition of governments docile to its designs.

Washington classified the Red Command (Comando Vermelho) and the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) as terrorist organizations, creating a dangerous precedent to justify future interference in Brazilian internal affairs. It then announced new trade barriers and tariffs on national products, using ridiculous and arbitrary arguments to attack sectors of the Brazilian economy and pressure the Lula government. The announced measures aim merely to create pretexts to blackmail the country and plunder our wealth.

In the face of this scenario, the construction of an Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Capitalist Front in Brazil and throughout Our America becomes increasingly urgent, one capable of bringing together revolutionary forces, trade union entities, popular organizations, youth, democratic sectors, and all those willing to defend the interests of the peoples and the working class. This Front will be stronger if we manage to form Anti-Imperialist Popular Committees in workplaces, schools, housing, and communities, so as to incorporate activists into this battle in defense of national and popular sovereignty.

This struggle cannot be limited to the abstract defense of sovereignty. The defense of the nation is inseparably linked to the defense of the workers' agenda. There will be no national independence while the financial system controls the economy. There will be no sovereignty while our strategic wealth is subject to foreign capital. There will be no true democracy while the majority of the people remain excluded from political decisions.

The hour demands organization, consciousness, and mobilization. Against the attacks of imperialism, let us go into struggle, promote resistance, and build Popular Power, toward Socialism!

ALL SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA AND THE PEOPLES OF LATIN AMERICA!

AGAINST IMPERIALISM, ADVANCE THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM!

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)

Central Committee - National Political Commission