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CARIBBEAN REVOLUTIONARY DECLARATION: AGAINST IMPERIALIST TERROR OF DEPORTATION AND FOR THE RELEASE OF ALL MIGRANTS!
From the depths of our collective Caribbean memory, where the wounds of colonial displacement still bleed, we witness the latest chapter of imperialism’s war against the displaced. The figures tell a story of systemic violence: more than 4.4 million Caribbean migrants have been forced to flee economic strangulation and climate catastrophe—conditions forged by centuries of colonial extraction and neoliberal plunder. Venezuela’s displaced now endure a manufactured crisis, designed to destabilize the Bolivarian Revolution, continuing the U.S. tradition of regime change that stretches from the 1954 Guatemalan coup to the 2009 overthrow of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. These are not isolated tragedies but the inevitable results of imperialist domination.
The United States, the primary architect of Caribbean suffering through slavery, military invasions, economic warfare, and coercive sanctions, now escalates its brutality by outsourcing immigration repression to El Salvador’s mega-prisons. This grotesque system revives the logic of convict leasing and chain gangs, where human beings are converted into profit for private prisons and security corporations. The numbers reveal the scale of the horror: 83% of Caribbean and Latin American migrants flee not by choice but from crises engineered by U.S. policy—whether through IMF austerity, orchestrated coups, or climate destruction driven by fossil capital. Over 150,000 Venezuelans have been deported in just two years, many disappearing into torture centers that echo the CIA’s black sites. All while the U.S. spends $25 billion annually to militarize borders rather than address the displacement its empire has caused.
In a controversial move that has drawn international condemnation, the Trump administration recently invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to forcibly deport Venezuelan nationals—allegedly linked to the Tren de Aragua gang—to El Salvador, directly contravening a federal court order. This decision represents a stark example of neoliberal aggression aimed at destabilizing the Bolivarian Revolution, undermining Venezuela’s sovereignty and its people’s right to dignity and self-determination. Human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have strongly criticized the deportations as violations of international treaties, notably the Convention Against Torture, given the detainees’ subsequent incarceration in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), infamous for overcrowding, abuse, and dire humanitarian conditions.
The Trump administration’s actions stand in opposition to the very ideals championed by Simón Bolívar, who fought tirelessly for Latin American unity, dignity, and independence from colonial and imperialist powers. By deporting Venezuelan citizens without adequate due process and subjecting them to conditions widely condemned as inhumane, the U.S. government’s neoliberal agenda continues to disrupt Venezuela’s social fabric, directly challenging Bolívar’s enduring legacy of regional sovereignty, solidarity, and freedom from foreign intervention. Critics assert that these measures are designed to further weaken Venezuela’s revolutionary government, intensifying humanitarian crises and exacerbating instability across the region.
International law lies in ruins before this onslaught. The 1951 Refugee Convention, meant to protect those fleeing persecution, becomes a cruel joke when the U.S. deports refugees to regimes known for torture. The Migrant Workers Convention remains ignored, with neither the U.S. nor El Salvador recognizing its protections. Even the American Convention on Human Rights, which explicitly bans collective expulsions, is violated as planeloads of Venezuelans are dumped into Bukele’s gulags—repeating the same crimes committed against Haitian refugees at Guantánamo in the 1990s.
We know this colonial script by heart. For five centuries, the Caribbean has been a testing ground for imperial violence and revolutionary resistance. From the Taíno genocide to the Haitian Revolution that shattered slavery and forced France to impose a crushing indemnity—a debt still unpaid. From Jamaica’s IMF riots to Cuba’s unbroken defiance of the blockade, our history proves that collective action can rupture imperial control. The Maroon wars outmaneuvered slave catchers, the Haitian Revolution toppled empires, and dockworkers’ strikes paralyzed colonial trade. Now, we channel that legacy into the fight against the deportation machine.
This regime is not just a human rights violation but a geopolitical weapon. It criminalizes survival, ensuring the Global South remains a reservoir of disposable labor. It fractures solidarity between Caribbean and Latin American peoples, preventing a unified anti-imperialist front. And it normalizes fascism, as Bukele’s “mano dura” model spreads across the region with U.S. backing. But history teaches us that no empire is eternal.
We demand an immediate end to all U.S.-El Salvador deportation pacts—no more human trafficking disguised as policy. We demand full recognition of migrant rights under international law, without exceptions or loopholes. We demand reparations for displaced communities from the nations that plundered our region. And we call for mass mobilization across the Caribbean to physically block deportation flights, just as Haiti grounded U.S. deportation planes in 2021.
The border regime believes it operates with impunity. But we remember what they have forgotten: that Caribbean peoples have always been the architects of their own liberation. When they came for Haitians, we stopped their planes. When they came for Cubans, we broke their blockade. Now, as they come for Venezuelans, we will rally our collective power—through strikes, port blockades, and direct action—until every prison holding our people is emptied.
This is not just about solidarity—it is about survival. As climate collapse accelerates, millions more will be displaced, and the imperial powers will respond with more walls, more prisons, more death. But we reaffirm the oldest truth of the Caribbean: no human being is illegal on stolen land, no cage can withstand the fury of organized peoples, and no empire lasts forever. The flames of resistance lit by Boukman, Louverture, and Rodney now guide us forward. From Haiti to Venezuela, from Jamaica to Cuba, we fight until all are free, because migrating is not a crime. Our ancestors’ struggle lives in us. Victory will be ours.
The Future We Face, the Future We Fight For
We can force reparations and debt cancellation to break economic coercion. We can create a future where borders are obsolete, where our people move freely as they did before colonialism. The choice is clear: submit to fascism or rise in revolution. We choose to fight.
ANTI-FASCIST INTERNATIONAL – CARIBBEAN LIBERATION FRONT
In the revolutionary lineage of Boukman’s prayer, Louverture’s strategy, and Rodney’s critique—unbroken, unyielding, unstoppable.
¡HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!
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