Brazilian Youth Movement demands release of President Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores

Published at: 05/04/2026 10:30 PM

Brazil's Levante Popular da Juventude movement sent a letter of solidarity to President Nicolás Maduro Moros and the first female fighter Cilia Flores, denouncing their kidnapping and subsequent illegal detention in New York, United States.

“They have been kidnapped by imperialist forces under the orders of those who claim to be guardians of the Americas and the world,” says the letter, quoted by TELESUR.

The document highlights that the judicial process that Maduro and Flores are experiencing lacks evidence and uses the legal system as a weapon to violate the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people under false pretexts of fighting drug trafficking.

*There is a judicial process marked by abuses, authoritarianism and illegalities, which the international judicial system uses to vilify the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people. Under the false pretext of combating terrorism and drug trafficking, and without presenting any evidence, presidential immunity, the right to defense of the parties, due process and international law are violated. All of these actions constitute piracy, looting, war crimes and State terrorism against a free people,” emphasizes the Brazilian movement.

The letter condemns the military operation of January 3, 2026 in Caracas, where U.S. bombings caused the death of more than 80 people in Venezuelan territory.

Young Brazilians affirmed that these attacks are not isolated cases but part of Washington's structural strategy to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution: “for more than two decades, the United States has tried to stifle the Bolivarian Revolution through various tactics, from coup attempts to criminal sanctions and media campaigns.”

The text warns that the implementation of the Shield of the Americas by the Donald Trump Administration seeks to transform Venezuela into a protectorate to plunder its strategic resources and mineral wealth.

The Popular Youth Revolt reaffirmed its commitment to the legacy of Hugo Chávez and to the construction of a multipolar world order where life prevails over capitalist profit.

The activists reported that they join the International Solidarity Brigades together with the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) to carry out actions of complaint and propaganda in defense of participatory democracy.

Brazilian youth concluded that they will not accept that the region is treated as the backyard of imperialism and demanded the immediate freedom of the leaders elected by the Venezuelan people.

Mazo News Team