FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Long Beach, CA. January 9, 2026
Contact: Pat Alviso, 562-833-8035, mfsooc@earthlink.net
Military Families Speak Out Opposes U.S. Attack on Venezuela
Military families across the country are once again devastated by our loved ones being used as pawns in a military operation that has nothing to do with their oath to protect country and Constitution and everything to do with oil markets and asserting dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) condemns the latest actions involving Venezuela by President Trump. To violate a country’s airspace, bomb their airports, kill over 80 civilian and military personnel and kidnap their head of state is a declaration of war, a criminal kidnapping, and a blatant violation of international law These actions occurred without Congressional authorization. The Constitution clearly assigns these powers to Congress. No debate took place. No vote occurred. The American people were denied a voice. Untold harm has and will come to the people of Venezuela, and to our loved ones in uniform.
Two decades ago, the US invaded Iraq, lying about weapons of mass destruction, and putting our loved ones and the people of Iraq in harm’s way. Today the lies are different but the horrific results will be the same.
“We military families know firsthand the true cost of war,” said MFSO member Alissa M. “My husband lost a lot of his battle buddies in Afghanistan and afterward. Some lost limbs, many suffer from PTSD, and far too many have been lost to suicide. Back then we were told the mission was to capture terrorists. I can’t even imagine the carnage and moral injury our troops will suffer as a result of being given orders to invade another country, which is no threat to us, and control another country’s oil.”
Military Families Speak Out demands an end to this attempt to overturn the government of a sovereign nation, using our loved ones as cannon fodder and threatening the lives of the people of Venezuela. We demand, and our troops and the American people deserve, lawful orders grounded in the Constitution and respect for international law.
Congress must immediately reassert its authority over unlawful military acts and halt military action against Venezuela or any other sovereign nation. Our troops are not expendable. Their lives and their sacrifice demand lawful leadership rather than the misuse and abuse they will suffer being deployed to an unlawful military misadventure. We’ve seen this playbook before. We know how this will end. We simply cannot allow a new generation of service members and the people of Venezuela to be sacrificed for another illegal, immoral war for oil.
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Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) is a national organization of post-9/11 military families founded in 2002, speaking out to prevent and end the forever wars in the Middle East. MFSO welcomes the voices of military families speaking out against the misuse and abuse of service members in today’s military misadventures including deploying the military to U.S. cities and towns, and currently to Venezuela.
