Amid fallout from the U.S. military operation detaining Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, Chilean Communist deputy Lorena Pizarro condemned the action, labeled Donald Trump a 'pedophile' seeking world domination, and insisted Maduro remains Venezuela's legitimate leader. Speaking in Chile's Chamber of Deputies, she criticized president-elect José Antonio Kast for supporting the intervention and emphasized non-intervention principles.
On January 6, 2026, Lorena Pizarro, head of the Communist Party (PC) bench representing PC, the Green Regionalist Federation (FREVS), Humanist Action (AH), and independents, denounced the U.S. operation that captured Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in Caracas on January 3.
"A pederast, a pedophile, aims to take over the world," Pizarro said of Trump, urging concern over those justifying the 'aggression.' She called Maduro's detention a 'kidnapping'—not a legitimate capture—comparing it to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, and affirmed Maduro as Venezuela's president in office.
Invoking Chile's 1973 coup, Pizarro stressed non-aggression under UN and OAS treaties, accusing Trump of eyeing Venezuelan oil and labeling supporters like Kast 'servile to the empire.'
She praised President Gabriel Boric's coordination with Latin American leaders condemning the action but urged Kast's incoming government to uphold international norms. As president of the Association of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared, Pizarro noted Chilean parliamentarians' support for a regional anti-intervention declaration.
Her remarks coincided with Kast's proclamation as president-elect, underscoring Chile's political divides on the Venezuelan crisis.