Zohran Mamdani Parrots CIA Lies to Justify Sanctions and War Against Socialist Cuba & Venezuela
Zohran Mamdani’s recent claim that “Nicolas Maduro and Miguel Diaz-Canel are dictators… suppressing free and fair press” is not merely false—it is imperialist disinformation straight from the CIA’s playbook. By regurgitating U.S. State Department propaganda, Mamdani sanitizes Washington’s illegal sanctions, which have killed over 40,000 Venezuelans since 2017 by denying medicine, food, and fuel. His lies lay groundwork for Trump’s threatened military invasion and Marco Rubio’s calls for violent regime change, proving his loyalty to empire over truth.
Mamdani’s hypocrisy is glaring: he labels socialist leaders “dictators” while silent on the U.S. locking up political dissidents like Mumia Abu-Jamal, still in prison for resisting state terror, jailing migrants in cages, and bankrolling actual dictatorships like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and “Israel.” His racist double standards weaponize “human rights” only against the anti-imperialist Global South, framing Cuba and Venezuela—nations with robust multiparty elections and historically high voter turnout—as “dictatorships” to justify their strangulation. Meanwhile, the U.S. spends billions rigging foreign elections, coups, and crushing free speech through corporate media monopolies.
Cuba and Venezuela’s “crimes”? Guaranteeing free healthcare, housing, and education despite brutal U.S. sanctions. Maduro’s government defeated a U.S.-backed coup in 2019 by mobilizing millions in the streets. Díaz-Canel was elected with 86% of Cuban voters backing the socialist project. To claim these leaders “jail opponents” erases context: U.S.-funded operatives in both nations actively sabotage infrastructure and plot assassinations. No nation should ever tolerate foreign-funded violent destabilization.
Mamdani embodies a critical truth: white supremacy and imperialism come in all colors and religions. As a Muslim man, he cynically weaponizes his identity to deflect criticism, portraying dissent as “bigotry” while advancing policies that uphold the same white supremacist imperialist system that demonizes Muslims globally. His veneer of marginalized identity masks his role as a propagandist for imperial violence, akin to Muslim CIA agents torturing detainees at black sites or Hindu nationalists genociding Muslims in India. If he truly opposed empire, he’d condemn its sanctions and wars—not parrot its lies.
Mamdani cynically claims to “focus on New Yorkers, not foreign policy” while ignoring that Venezuelan migrants fleeing U.S.-induced starvation are New Yorkers. His crocodile tears for “democracy” exclude those whose lives depend on ending sanctions. This is the essence of social democracy—Bernie Sanders cheered regime change in Bolivia, AOC funds NATO’s genocidal wars, and Mamdani now joins them in laundering imperial violence through progressive aesthetics.
Bronx Anti-War explicitly warned voters to reject Mamdani during his primary, precisely because his “democratic socialist” branding masks Zionist, imperialist allegiances. Now, as he inches toward power, liberal backtracking is too little, too late. Mamdani’s role is clear: to legitimize U.S. aggression abroad while tokenizing oppressed communities at home.
Electoralism will never dismantle empire—it is empire’s pressure valve. Bronx Anti-War urges New Yorkers to reject Mamdani’s lies and all US politicians who serve capitalism’s death machine. Solidarity means direct action: shut down ports shipping arms to “Israel”, occupy offices enabling sanctions, and build dual power in local communities rooted in revolution, not ballots.
