The “Enemies Within” Are Out of the Closet

By: Cliff Kincaid

Now that Maduro is in custody, it is time to identify his supporters in the United States. They are easy to identify, since they have been agitating for the Maduro regime on American soil and in Venezuela. They are now in the streets protesting, and include:

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which “stands in solidarity” with the Maduro regime and counts NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a member.
The ANSWER Coalition, a communist front.
The People’s Forum, another communist front.
The “World Beyond War” group, which includes Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation has announced an “Emergency Rally for Venezuela.”
The Communist Party USA, which protested “the drive to war against Venezuela and the aggression against China,” and declared its intention to get Communist Cuba off the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
The Revolutionary Communists of America, a group that declares “America Needs a Revolution.”
The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which condemned “the far-right cabal in the White House for its unprovoked aggression against our Latin American neighbors.”
The Popular Resistance, which said “progressive governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)” have been “delegitimized and displaced,” threatening the so-called Pink Tide governments.
Drop Site News, which ran an article declaring that “Venezuela’s communes are prepared to face Trump’s illegal naval blockade and U.S. plans for economic asphyxiation.”
Common Dreams, a far-left “news” site, which quoted Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel as saying about the U.S. action, “This is state terrorism against the brave Venezuelan people and against Our America.”
The Revolutionary Communist Party has participated in “emergency protests” against the Trump Administration over its policy toward Venezuela.
The Workers World Party, which reported on a delegation from the U.S. that traveled to Venezuela to attend the “People’s Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty in our Americas,” held in Caracas from December 9-11.

The communist group said delegates at that assembly from the U.S. represented Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Students for a Democratic Society, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Struggle La Lucha, Workers World Party, and Palaver Collective.

“Also attending from the U.S. were representatives of Tricontinental and the Venezuela Solidarity Network,” the group reported.

Cuba is now collapsing, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal. We can only hope that the regime finally collapses and that its communist rulers pay the price for their brutality and oppression.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has wisely asked Congress to approve the largest-ever U.S. arms package for Taiwan. It is worth more than $11 billion.

Communism has never worked anywhere, especially in Cuba, but the situation is now even more severe because the regime’s reliance on oil from Communist Venezuela is making it even more vulnerable to collapse.

The establishment journal Foreign Affairs calls it “Latin America’s Revolution of the Right,” noting, “The true revolutionary fervor in today’s Latin America, with leaders determined to transform not just their countries but the region itself, is primarily evident on the ideological right.”

The article adds, “Conservative presidential hopefuls are leading polls in Costa Rica and Peru, and are within striking distance in Brazil and Colombia, in elections due before the end of 2026.”

The current predicament for the communist rulers in Cuba is worth broadcasting to the world at large, but especially to American college students hooked on the idea that socialism might work in New York City.

DSA-backed New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was once pictured in solidarity with the Cuban Delegation to the United Nations.

He took his oath of office, pledging allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, on the Koran.

The battle now shifts to the legal arena, as lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) prepare to defend Maduro against narco-terrorism charges.

The NLG is an affiliate of the old Soviet front, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), which quickly issued a statement condemning “in the strongest and most unequivocal terms the US bombing of Caracas as well as the attacks on Miranda, La Guaira and Aragua.” The group also expressed “our outrage that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been kidnapped and removed from Venezuela by the US government.”

In addition to the National Lawyers Guild, U.S. affiliates of the IADL include the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the “Legal Arm of the Movement For Black Liberation,” and the Center for Constitutional Rights, a group “committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.”

Groups and individuals signing the communist-inspired “Hands Off Venezuela” campaign include:

Bronx Anti-War Coalition, United States
Chicago ALBA Solidarity, United States
CODEPINK, United States
Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-US), United States
Friends of Latin America, United States
International Action Center, United States
National Lawyers Guild International Committee, United States
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, United States
Orinoco Tribune, Venezuela
San Jose Against War, United States
Sanctions Kill Campaign, United States
Task Force On the Americas, United States
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), United States
US Women and Cuba Collaboration, United States
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC), Canada
Vermont Peace Anti-War Coalition, United States
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Vermont Branch, United States
Workers World Party/Partido Mundo Obrero, United States.