Protesters gathered outside the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, where President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are spending their tenth night kidnapped after the US military incursion in Caracas on January 3.
The attendees demanded his immediate release and denounced the action as a kidnapping.
According to a teleSUR report in the United States, the Protestants have remained constantly throughout the week, despite the low temperatures, carrying banners and singing songs in support of the president and his wife.
“There are several people who demonstrate here, who are not only dissatisfied with this situation, but with everything that Donald Trump’s Government is doing, the threats it is launching to other countries in the region such as Colombia, Cuba and Mexico,” the media indicated.
The protesters reiterated that the United States cannot continue using excuses to invade Venezuela and appropriate its natural resources, such as oil and minerals, which they consider the true background of the aggression.
Pronouncements in the Dominican Republic
In Plaza Bolívar in the Dominican Republic, the Frente Amplio and the Alianza País accused Washington of committing a serious transgression of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. In a joint manifesto, they stated: “Any action by a State outside the international order lacks legality and legitimacy and must be repudiated by all.”
The organizations described what happened as an act of war that threatens regional and world peace, and demanded the immediate release of Maduro and Flores. They also recalled that the region is not “the backyard of any power” and that the peoples conquered their independence and right to self-determination more than two centuries ago.
In the province of Espaillat, Dominican Republic, the Dominican Left Movement (MIU) and other groups expressed their solidarity with Venezuela and described the United States attack as brutal. They demanded respect for national sovereignty and advocated for Latin American unity to face the current situation.
In Lebanon, activists and citizens mobilized in support of Venezuela and Cuba, rejecting the kidnapping of Maduro and external interventions in sovereign countries. According to correspondent Abbas Sabbagh, protesters carried banners with slogans such as “No to the kidnapping of Maduro” and “No to foreign intervention.”
Activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah declared: “International law and its principles are trampled because it can no longer continue to operate within our borders. The imperialist machine tramples on all international laws, agreements and concepts that it itself has established.”
In the area of Baabda, Mount Lebanon, the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth organized a protest in front of the Cuban embassy, where they expressed their rejection of the economic blockade against the island and lit candles in tribute to the Cubans and Venezuelans who have fallen defending the sovereignty of Venezuela.
