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Framework in America: Within hours of strike, socialist networks in US mobilized for pro-Maduro rallies

January 5, 2026 | | Print Article

Primed for propaganda, a new report documented the stateside coordination and astroturf mobilization in favor of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro as strikes preempted his capture.

Whenever a perceived injustice occurs and riles leftists, efforts to frame the narrative and project opposition are set into motion, including through suspiciously well-supplied rallies often featuring printed signs. Such was the case Saturday, hours after a Venezuelan-tied socialist network in the U.S. set to work producing agitprop as American forces were actively conducting their operation in the South American nation.

Outlined by Fox News Digital senior editor Asra Nomani, the investigation marked the propaganda efforts of the International Peoples’ Assembly, said to be connected to millionaire Neville Roy Singham, identified as having ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

As the strikes began in Venezuela, BreakThrough News, described as the network’s “socialist propaganda arm,” accused the Trump administration of an “illegal bombing campaign of Caracas” while sharing early video.

Within minutes, New York-based nonprofit The People’s Forum’s Executive Director Manolo De Los Santos parroted the sentiment, and posts began circulating on social media advertising rally locations in major cities under the banner, “NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! STOP THE BOMBINGS!”

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In addition to De Los Santos, listed as a researcher for the Singham chaired Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the institute’s director, Vijay Prashad was highlighted as posting a message that read, “Down with US imperialism,” less than two hours after the strikes and hours before his institute would join a livestream hosted by the Party of Socialism and Liberation’s Eugene Puryear.

Further, Code Pink, the nonprofit founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, joined in mobilizing for Maduro and the protests against the Trump administration’s intent to prosecute the dictator — indicted for alleged narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machineguns and destructive devices and other charges — had expanded to include picketing outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where he was being held.

“From a military intelligence perspective, experts say the overnight sequence bears the hallmarks of a pre-positioned influence network executing a rapid-response operation,” wrote Nomani. “The synchronization of messaging, the staggered release of content across aligned platforms, and the immediate transition from online agitation to physical mobilization point to an ecosystem designed not for spontaneous protest, but for ideological warfare.”

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The report continued, “In this framework, experts say, the nonprofit leaders are foot soldiers in Maduro’s war on the United States, acting as civilian operatives advancing the strategic interests of a foreign ideological project. Their role is not to fight with weapons, but to contest legitimacy, shape public perception, apply internal pressure on U.S. decision-making during moments of external conflict, and further the cause of communism, experts say.”

With congressional Democrats likewise parroting the opposition to the operation in Venezuela, Nomani’s investigation followed the roots of the network back to 2003, when then-leaders of Cuba and Venezuela — Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez — supported the foundation of the Francisco de Miranda Front, which was later tied to the International People’s Assembly.

“This wasn’t just about Venezuela,” she asserted. “It was about a global war — an information war running parallel to a kinetic one — and what I learned next was that it had been years in the making.”

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