Overview
- Pinarayi Vijayan denounces what he calls an unprecedented assault on Venezuela’s sovereignty and urges global democratic resistance.
- He alleges the United States intruded into Venezuela, took its elected leadership "hostage," sought to oust the government, and imposed suffocating sanctions.
- Warning that similar actions could occur elsewhere, he calls the situation a matter of concern for people everywhere.
- He criticizes the Centre’s response as weak, noting the Ministry of External Affairs did not name the United States in its statement.
- He announces a satyagraha on January 12 at the Martyrs' Column in Thiruvananthapuram to protest what he describes as fiscal strangulation of Kerala through borrowing-limit curbs since 2017.