A Battle on Two Fronts: America’s Operation to Capture Maduro Meets Coordinated Domestic Resistance
When U.S. special forces launched their operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, they weren’t just facing challenges in Caracas. Within minutes of the military action beginning, a second front emerged on American soil: a sophisticated information warfare campaign orchestrated by a network of self-described Marxist, socialist, and communist activists. This network, which has spent years organizing under the banner of “anti-war” and “anti-imperialist” causes, demonstrated remarkable speed and coordination in mobilizing opposition to the U.S. operation, revealing the extent to which ideological warfare has become a critical battlefield in modern conflicts.
The response began with stunning precision in the early morning hours. At 1:35 a.m., as U.S. forces were just landing in Venezuela, BreakThrough News—a socialist media outlet—was already publishing some of the first footage from the operation, framing it as an “illegal bombing campaign of Caracas.” Within ten minutes, Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of The People’s Forum (a socialist nonprofit in New York City), amplified this narrative on social media. By 2:29 a.m., the ANSWER Coalition had designed and published protest posters calling supporters to “EMERGENCY” demonstrations in Times Square and across the country. This rapid mobilization continued as other aligned organizations—Party for Socialism and Liberation, CodePink, Tricontinental Institute—quickly spread identical messaging condemning “U.S. imperialism” and defending Maduro, eventually claiming protests in “100-plus cities” across America.
What makes this response particularly noteworthy is not just its speed but its apparent strategic coordination. Security experts describe the sequence as bearing hallmarks of a pre-positioned influence network executing a rapid-response operation—not a spontaneous protest but a carefully orchestrated information campaign. At the center of this coordination structure stands the International Peoples’ Assembly, functioning as a command-and-control hub linking communist parties, socialist movements, and activist organizations worldwide. This umbrella organization includes North American members like CodePink, initiatives of The People’s Forum, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, working alongside international partners including Venezuela’s Francisco de Miranda Front. Congressional lawmakers have already begun investigating connections between this network and Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born technology executive now based in Shanghai, whose organizations like Tricontinental serve as ideological production centers generating narratives disseminated through aligned media platforms.
The relationship between this U.S.-based network and Venezuela’s leadership is not new. It was built systematically over decades, beginning in 2003 when Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez backed the formation of the Francisco de Miranda Front, creating an international solidarity apparatus that would later join with U.S. groups through the International People’s Assembly. By 2019, these connections had solidified, with De Los Santos organizing pro-Maduro protests in New York, while fellow activists like Claudia De la Cruz traveled to Venezuela for conferences urging socialists to “collectivize” their efforts against “capitalist crisis.” Photographs show network leaders meeting directly with Maduro in Caracas, participating in state-sponsored conferences, and being publicly recognized by the Venezuelan government. What emerges from this history is a portrait not of spontaneous solidarity, but of a methodically constructed alignment between domestic activists and foreign political structures.
As the operation unfolded and Maduro was transported to the United States, the messaging from this network remained remarkably consistent across different platforms and spokespeople. From Tricontinental’s Vijay Prashad declaring “Down with US imperialism” to CodePink condemning the “terrorist United States,” from Democratic Socialists of America member Rep. Rashida Tlaib calling the strike “illegal” to newly-elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani labeling it an “act of war,” the talking points reflected striking uniformity. ANSWER Coalition co-founder Brian Becker, speaking to protesters in Times Square, framed the situation as “a capitalist war! It’s a rich man’s war!” while Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Eugene Puryear hosted livestreams promoting similar views. This consistency extended even to mainstream political figures, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoing the network’s assessment that “It’s about oil and regime change”—language that mirrored statements from Russia and China condemning America’s “blatant use of force.”
By afternoon, the information campaign had fully materialized on American streets. Protesters gathered in Times Square and in front of the White House, holding distinctive yellow-and-black ANSWER Coalition signs and chanting “Stop the war machine!” The People’s Forum shared video of De Los Santos rallying crowds, calling the Trump administration a “criminal enterprise” for “kidnapping” Maduro. On a BreakThrough News livestream, Becker revealed how organizers had “stood up all night” conferring with each other before issuing the call for demonstrations by 4 a.m., later joining forces with anti-Trump groups that were “more closely aligned with the Democratic Party” to swell their numbers. As Maduro’s plane touched down at Stewart Airport in New York, Becker warned that these protests were just “a harbinger of what’s coming,” calling for the “working class” to join the “class war, global war, anti-imperialist war.” This domestic front, operating as ideological foot soldiers in what experts describe as malign foreign influence, represents a new threat matrix—not fighting with weapons, but contesting legitimacy, shaping public perception, and applying internal pressure on U.S. decision-making during moments of external conflict.
