Vocalist Rubén Albarrán explained that the request is based on several reasons, including the company's investments in armaments, advertising for ICE, the controversial U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement service, and the use of a "completely unjust" royalty pool that translates into inadequate payments, which he referred to as "miserable royalties."

The poem "On learning to dissect fetal pigs," which translates to "Sobre aprender a diseccionar fetos de cerdo," was honored with the Academy of American Poets award in 2020. The translation was completed by Argentinian writer and poet Julián Axat.

"This press conference was not just about Venezuela. It was about whether the empire can openly reclaim the right to govern other nations and expect the world to shrug. If this persists, the lesson is brutal and undeniable: sovereignty is conditional, resources are there for the U.S. to seize, and democracy only exists by imperial consent."

The IACHR issued precautionary measures against the Ecuadorian government to halt what civil organizations describe as a "latent prison massacre," in which around 600 inmates died in 2025, primarily due to causes linked to chronic malnutrition, tuberculosis, and lack of medical attention.

The Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, stated that among the deceased are civilians and women struck by the "powerful bombs unleashed" on the Caribbean nation by order of Donald Trump.

The Argentine president defended the U.S. invasion of Venezuela with arguments that contradict Donald Trump's own statements regarding oil control as a central objective of the military attacks, who repeatedly referred to the Caribbean nation's natural resources as "our oil."

With no sense of shame, the U.S. government has publicly expressed its intentions to seize the strategic resources of Venezuela and our entire continent, invoking the disastrous Monroe Doctrine by declaring to the world that our sovereign nations are merely the empire's backyard, the statement reads.

Petro highlighted that social forces have united for a nationwide mobilization of the Colombian people, set to take place this Wednesday, January 7.

The U.S. attack in Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro's detention prompted a wide range of reactions in Chile, marked by disagreements over sovereignty, international law, and solutions to the Venezuelan crisis.

Trump proposes a scheme: Venezuelan oil exported, sold in the U.S., with the revenue under White House control. More than just a slogan, "oil looting" appears as the structure of the message itself.