US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee slammed newly-elected New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani over his criticism of the United States' operation in Venezuela in a scathing post to X/Twitter on Saturday.
"I pity ppl of NY for electing a mayor who sides with a drug trafficker & ally of Iran & Hezbollah rather than his constituents," Huckabee wrote. "Will he & Sen. Van Hollen go to Maduro's jail cell to sip margaritas for solidarity?"
Mamdani had earlier condemned the operation on X, saying that "unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law."
"This blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home."
DSA calls for an end to 'Trump administration's illegal war'
The Democratic Socialists of America, the political movement Mamdani is affiliated with, on Saturday released a statement condemning the US operation, including a list of demands for the Trump administration.
"The Trump administration has started an illegal war against Venezuela," the statement reads, explaining that the operation is nothing more than a "nakedly imperialist war to install a US puppet government that will give Venezuela’s oil resources over to US corporations and to force US hegemony over Latin America."
"This war is illegal both under international law and the laws governing the declaration of war within the United States."
In addition to ending the war, the DSA demanded the release of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, a total withdrawal of US forces in the Caribbean and ending SOUTHCOM operation, an end to "illegal unilateral sanctions against Venezuela" and an end to "the use of unilateral sanctions anywhere in the world," and an end to the "failed war on drugs."
The DSA also called for restoring diplomatic relations between the US and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as establishing a "US foreign policy centered on peace, multilateralism, and respect for national sovereignty and self-determination."