“More than 65 cities saw protests against Trump’s escalation of war in Venezuela. On Friday, the administration officially declared the neocolonial Monroe doctrine as its guiding policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean,” declared the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (Alba-TCP), Rander Peña, on his networks.
With the slogan “Let’s stop the war before it starts!”, thousands of North American citizens demonstrated in the streets on Saturday to oppose the plans of US President Donald Trump to attack and threaten Venezuela militarily. The mobilization, promoted by an extensive alliance of progressive organizations, maintains that the Republican administration “would be making the same mistakes of the past” if it justifies an eventual intervention with unfounded accusations about drug trafficking.
Since last August, the administration of US President Donald Trump mobilized a military fleet to the Venezuelan Caribbean. According to the explanations given by Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the deployment of the United States Navy is to combat drug trafficking.
But the Venezuelan authorities have presented figures from the United Nations that 87% of the drugs that go to the United States do not pass through the Caribbean but through the Pacific Ocean, which borders Ecuador and Colombia, among other countries.
On this point, both President Nicolás Maduro and the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, have indicated that the United States’ intentions are to displace the Venezuelan head of state to install a puppet who will hand over the country’s resources to them.
