In total, 66 sovereign states demonstrated. Of these, only 10 expressly supported the US intervention in Caracas: Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Israel, Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and – logically – the United States.
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Explore on this map the positions of the world’s governments on the US military operation in Venezuela:
Gideon Sa’ar, Isarel’s foreign minister, said his country “praises the United States operation, led by President Trump, who acted as the leader of the free world.”
Similarly, her counterpart in Albania, Elisa Spiropali, said that the State “unequivocally supports the United States and the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in their decisive actions against the narco-terrorist regime of Venezuela.”
On the other hand, 22 States expressly condemned Washington’s intervention. Many of them recognized Nicolas Maduro as legitimate president of Venezuela after the fraudulent 2024 elections, like Russia and China, allies of the Chavista regime.
However, some nations that did not recognize Maduro’s electoral victory also expressly rejected the operation. This is the case, for example, of Denmark, Spain and Sweden, whose representatives pointed out severe violations of international law.
The largest number of countries that spoke out (34) did not expressly support or condemn the actions of the government of donald trump. In most of these cases, the States opted for a prudent position, condemning the illegitimacy of the government of Nicolás Maduro but, at the same time, calling for the US government to act within international law.
Others even celebrated the fall of the dictator, but did not expressly support Washington’s use of force, an important difference at the diplomatic level.
At the time of the closing of this report, 129 countries (66% of the total) had not yet issued a statement on the events.
The African Union, which groups 55 States on the African continent, issued a pronouncement rejecting the intervention. However, the count included only the countries that spoke individually.
In Latin America
Until 8:00 pm on Saturday, in the region, only three States expressly supported the actions of Donald Trump’s government in Venezuela: Argentina, Ecuador and El Salvador.
Pablo Quirno, Argentine Foreign Minister, wrote in
The president Javier Mileialso in X, did the same in a phrase: “Long live freedom, damn it.”
From El Salvador, the Foreign Ministry reported that “Ecuador values actions that allow the Venezuelan people to recover democratic institutions.”
On the other hand, nine Latin American countries expressly condemned the US operation on Venezuelan soil, all of them leaning to the left or center-left.
Through his account on X, the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva He noted that “the bombings in Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line.” From Chile, Gabriel Boric expressed “concern and condemnation over the United States military actions taking place in Venezuela.”
A total of six countries, including Peru, showed a nuanced position, without expressly celebrating or condemning the US intervention.
Through a releasethe Peruvian Foreign Ministry reaffirmed “its commitment to the principles of International Law and the Charter of the United Nations regarding the maintenance of peace, the preservation of security and the peaceful solution of international disputes”, at the same time that it accused the “illegitimate government of Nicolás Maduro” of systematic violations of human rights.
