{"id":306297,"date":"2025-11-03T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=306297"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:34:58","slug":"when-sovereignty-becomes-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/when-sovereignty-becomes-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"When Sovereignty Becomes a Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

For decades, the United States has punished nations that dared to act independently. From Venezuela to the Sahel, a new generation is rejecting the old empire\u2019s script.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

27 Oct 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0The mask has fallen. In a moment of verbal violence reminiscent of an old western, U.S. president Donald Trump openly called for the \u201cremoval\u201d of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, accusing Venezuela of \u201cthreatening American interests, or supporting drug cartels.\u201d
\nLet us be clear: this is not mere rhetoric. It is an explicit call for the murder of a sovereign head of state\u2014a flagrant violation of international law.<\/p>\n

Trump does not speak for the American people. He speaks for the multinationals, the military-industrial complex, and the corporate lobbies that thrive on chaos. Every time these powers wave their sanctions and threats, more nations awaken to the true face of empire.<\/p>\n

Behind this new outburst of aggression lies an old and familiar strategy: destroy any government that dares to act independently of Washington. Since Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, Venezuela has chosen the path of sovereignty\u2014controlling its own oil, defining its own economic priorities, and pursuing a foreign policy free of U.S. domination.
\nFor the American establishment, that is an unforgivable crime.<\/p>\n

From Iran in 1953 to Guatemala in 1954, from Chile in 1973 to Iraq in 2003, the script has barely changed. Governments that nationalize their resources, seek independent alliances, or challenge U.S. hegemony are branded as \u201cdictatorships\u201d or \u201cterrorist regimes.\u201d Their leaders are isolated, sanctioned, or removed.
\nThe methods differ \u2014 covert coups during the Cold War, sanctions and hybrid warfare today \u2014 but the logic remains the same: to preserve global dominance through controlled instability.<\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s \u201ccrime\u201d under Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has been the pursuit of sovereignty \u2014 reclaiming control over its oil, asserting an independent foreign policy, and building alliances beyond Washington\u2019s reach. For the U.S. establishment, that is an intolerable act of defiance.
\nCaracas has endured attempted coups, crippling sanctions, and now open calls for violence. Yet despite the pressure, the Venezuelan people continue to resist, organize, and rebuild.<\/p>\n

The latest sanctions imposed by Trump on Colombian president Gustavo Petro \u2014 and even his family \u2014 illustrate how far this imperial reflex extends. Petro, a lifelong advocate of peace and anti-corruption reform, is being punished simply for questioning U.S. policies. The message is clear: those who refuse alignment are treated as adversaries.<\/p>\n

This strategy is not confined to Latin America. The same script has played out in Libya, where NATO\u2019s intervention left a nation in ruins; in Iraq, where regime change unleashed decades of instability; and in Afghanistan, where twenty years of occupation ended in chaos. In Africa\u2019s Sahel region, popular movements in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso now reject foreign domination, seeking new paths of sovereignty and solidarity.<\/p>\n

Each time Washington resorts to sanctions or intervention, it weakens its own moral authority. Every act of coercion deepens global mistrust and strengthens the call for a multipolar world \u2014 one in which nations of the Global South reclaim their right to self-determination.<\/p>\n

The struggle unfolding in Venezuela, Colombia, and across Africa is not just regional; it is civilizational. It speaks to a broader awakening \u2014 a collective realization that the age of empire is fading, and that dignity, unity, and independence remain the most powerful tools of resistance.<\/p>\n

The world no longer trembles before the empire\u2019s shadow.
\nFrom Latin America to Africa and Asia, nations stand tall \u2014 sovereign, unbowed, and awake.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Ra\u00efs Neza Boneza is the author of fiction as well as non-fiction, poetry books and articles. He was born in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Former Za\u00efre). He is also an activist and peace practitioner. Ra\u00efs is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a> Editorial Committee and a convener of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a> for Central and African Great Lakes. He uses his work to promote artistic expressions as a means to deal with conflicts and maintaining mental wellbeing, spiritual growth and healing. Ra\u00efs has travelled extensively in Africa and around the world as a lecturer, educator and consultant for various NGOs and institutions. His work is premised on art, healing, solidarity, peace, conflict transformation and human dignity issues and works also as freelance journalist. You can reach him at <\/em>rais.boneza@gmail.com<\/em><\/a> – <\/em>http:\/\/www.raisnezaboneza.no<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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