A small group of civilians and politicians in Mexico called this Saturday for an international campaign against what they described as an “imperialist aggression” by the United States in Venezuela, after the attack and capture of President Nicolás Maduro during the early hours of the morning, in an operation celebrated by the US president, Donald Trump.
In public statements in front of the US Embassy in the Mexican capital, participants demanded Maduro’s freedom and demanded actions of solidarity with the South American country, in a context of condemnations and calls to avoid escalation by governments and international actors.
The protesters showed banners that read “Enough of attacks and blackmail against Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia!”, “We are not your backyard,” “Shitty gringos,” “The great country is respected,” “The defense of the sovereignty and peace of the peoples of Latin America is an urgent task.”
The concentration, of just a few dozen people, occurs after Mexico officially expressed its rejection of military intervention and recalled that the United Nations urges countries to refrain from resorting to the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State.
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This was indicated by Salvador Ferrer, of the Independent Union of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Situam), who maintained that the attack constituted a “violation of Venezuelan sovereignty” and called on “the progressive forces” of the world to promote an international campaign, with protests in front of US embassies in different countries.
Lissett Magno Jaramillo, Morena advisor in Toluca, State of Mexico, maintained that “Latin America after 35 years is being bombed again” and denounced that, in her opinion, Washington “was not enough” with Gaza, Syria or Iran.
“They want more, they go for more,” he said, while warning that, if regional sovereignty is not defended, “tomorrow it could be Mexico” or other nations such as Brazil or Colombia.
At the same event, federal representative Malena Rosales defined that Mexico is a country that “is against war, against injustice,” and called for national unity in the face of what she described as an aggression “planned for many years.”
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“Dictators are those of the United States. Dictators are those of war, those who invade free, sovereign countries, small countries, but also large countries like Venezuela, like Iran, like Iraq, like everything that represents being against their values of profit and wealth, theft, invasion and war,” accused the deputy for the ruling Morena.
The operation was presumed by Trump, after the same president announced that the United States captured Maduro and Flores and took them out of the country, after a military action in Caracas, which opened a phase of high political and diplomatic tension in Venezuela and the region.
With information from EFE
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