Venezuela Calls the Security Council – Caracas Speaks of U.S. Colonial Arrogance

The UN Security Council is convening for an emergency meeting at Venezuela’s request. The session is scheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, as Slovenia announced, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month. The trigger is a formal complaint by the Venezuelan government over what it describes as ongoing aggressive actions by the United States. Venezuela’s UN ambassador, Samuel Moncada, submitted the request on Wednesday. In his letter, he calls for the Council to address immediately the latest steps taken by Washington, which, according to Caracas, go far beyond political or economic disputes. The United States, the accusation says, is behaving like a colonial power and openly violating Venezuela’s sovereignty. Specifically, Moncada accuses the U.S. government of effectively claiming Venezuelan territory and state assets, including its oil resources, as its own.

On December 17, another four people were killed by the use of American military weapons.

In unusually sharp language, the ambassador warns of the historical dimensions of this course of action. If the American position were to prevail, it would mean that the United States was laying claim to the world’s largest known oil reserves. Moncada describes this as an act of plunder that would be unprecedented in scale and would set a dangerous precedent for the international system. The emergency meeting underscores how far the conflict between Washington and Caracas has now shifted onto the multilateral stage. While the United States regularly justifies its actions with legal, political, or security arguments, Venezuela sees them as a direct assault on the foundations of international law. The Security Council now becomes the arena for this confrontation, with an uncertain outcome but high symbolic significance. That a member state is appealing to the Council over alleged expropriation and violations of sovereignty highlights just how deep this crisis runs and how fragile the international rules of the game have become in this conflict.