Constantly, politicians of Cuban origin such as Marco Rubio, Maria Elvira Salazar, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez raise their voices in favor of interventions and subjugation of governments in Latin America, including Mexico; While politicians of Mexican origin hide, lower their guard, and play dead, even when one of California's representatives with the highest position in the United States Congress, Alex Padilla, was brought to his knees and subdued by FBI agents. Let's remember that legislators of Cuban origin only represent 2.9 million Cuban Americans, according to data from the 2024 United States Census, and most of them live in the state of Florida; while the population of Mexican origin is 39 million people and is concentrated in California, Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Washington, North Carolina, and New York. So why do we do nothing?

Why can't we have leaders like the Cubans, whose voices are heard throughout the United States when they speak, while those of Mexican or Central American origin seem to have forgotten where their parents came from? They seem unaware that thanks to US interventions in Latin America, millions of Latinos have come to this country, dividing families and causing the death and imprisonment of thousands of migrants.

The silence and passivity with which such atrocities are met within this country must END. Fascism advances not only through brutality from above, but also through normalization and complacency from below.

Waiting, adapting, or trusting that institutions will restrain this regime is a deadly illusion. Narratives about trying to prevent ideologies like communism and socialism from taking hold in other countries, as well as invading a nation to bring freedom and democracy, have been completely outdated and are impossible for millions of Americans to believe; Therefore,Why aren't Latino leaders speaking out against further interventions in Latin America? This conflict will only bring pain, death, and migration to the United States.

Yes,the United States, a country that has declared war on migrants within its borders, including under immigrant programs that arose as a consequence of wars and economic sanctions that the US government has provoked and supported, as in El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, and others, including Mexico with its misnamed war on drugs.

It's a shame that we have leaders subservient to the Democratic Party, especially now that Latino migrants need them more than ever.

Not even when Congressman Alex Padilla was humiliated by federal authorities was there a strong and forceful response against the policies that violate countless human rights of immigrants in the United States.

It's heartbreaking to see how Trump's policies separate Latino families and cause irreversible tragedies like that of The immigrants who have died at the hands of immigration detention centers; However, there are no Latino politicians calling for a march against these actions that clearly violate the legal rights of migrants, with or without documents. And what can we say about raising our voices for our sister nations in Latin America, now that the Venezuelan people have been bombed? We don't hear the voices of politicians of Mexican or Central American descent asking that the sovereign rights of other countries not be violated. The cynicism of President Trump, who has said that the only thing he cares about is Venezuelan oil, hasn't been enough. That's why he invents rhetoric about Venezuelan drug traffickers without evidence and lies time and again to the American people. Why don't we react when they tell us they are going to exchange the lives of American soldiers for oil? Yes, President Trump no longer pretends as other leaders did before. Now he says it simply and directly: we're going after Venezuela's oil, period. Of course, this bellicose rhetoric is accompanied by the voices of Cuban-American politicians who justify their intervention, while the voices of their Mexican-American counterparts remain silent, not wanting to offend the Democratic Party, which, it seems, also supports—although it may not appear so, but it does—Trump's interventionist government. Trump's refusal to recognize constitutional limits or to consult with Congress before undertaking military action further exposes the fascist nature of this regime. This is government by decree. Power replaces the law. Threats replace accountability. The message is unequivocal: Opposition, norms, and human life itself are obstacles that must be crushed. The silence and passivity with which such atrocities are met within this country must END. Fascism advances not only through brutality from above, but also through normalization and complacency from below. To wait, adapt, or trust that institutions will restrain this regime is a deadly illusion. It's time to take to the streets,to pressure the government to stop spending our taxes on wars that only seek the profit of transnational corporations, risking the lives of American soldiers, without any benefit to the people. We cannot remain silent any longer. Today, more than ever, we have a thousand reasons to take to the streets and protest. It is time to go out and ask President Trump not to risk the lives of our soldiers for the benefit of oil corporations, not to burden us with the pain, death, and migration that the bombings in Venezuela will generate. This has to stop. Given the silence of our leaders, we, the people ourselves, must do what is necessary to live better without causing more death and pain on our conscience. And if the issue of Venezuela doesn't convince you, then let's go out and defend the rights of migrants who are being captured, just as the African American community was captured during and after slavery in the United States.

If Latino politicians don't call for a march against unjustified interventions, then let's start one ourselves. Let's unite all the organizations that help Latino migrants to fight against interventionism in Latin America and against the exchange of the lives of our sons and daughters as American soldiers for oil for international oil corporations.

For the good of all, let's say no to war in Venezuela and no to immigration authoritarianism within the borders of the United States.

*Juan Jose Gutierrez is the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition.