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yerop

(89 posts)
Tue May 14, 2019, 02:08 AM May 2019

State Department: US trying to remove protesters from Venezuelan Embassy in DC

Source: CNN

US law enforcement on Monday started the process of trying to remove protesters from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, a State Department official said.

The move to evict the protesters from the embassy came after a group of US anti-war activists began moving into the embassy last month.
Medea Benjamin, one of the founders of the anti-war group Code Pink, previously told CNN that diplomats from the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had given them access to the embassy before the diplomats left as the standoff unfolded between Maduro and Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido.

Venezuela's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America Carlos Ron denounced the removal of protestors on Monday. "The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has not authorized the entry of police officers into the former Embassy building in Washington, DC. This intrusion is yet another violation of international law by US authorities and an aggression against Venezuela," Ron, a Maduro official, said on Twitter.
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The State Department said in response to the embassy protests that it was the US position that Guaido's government had legal authority over the embassy, not Maduro's sitting government in Venezuela. The department on Monday encouraged "the remaining unauthorized individuals to vacate the building and to conduct any future protest peacefully and through legal means."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/venezuelan-embassy-washington-dc/index.html



CodePink or CodePutin? All the stuff going on in the world and they make their stand for Maduro? Idiots.
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State Department: US trying to remove protesters from Venezuelan Embassy in DC (Original Post) yerop May 2019 OP
Not exactly, watoos May 2019 #1
Or multi-national oil corporations rainy May 2019 #2
Unrec... 2naSalit May 2019 #3
The US doesn't recognize the Maduro government ripcord May 2019 #4
Good to See Activists Standing Up McKim May 2019 #5
 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
1. Not exactly,
Tue May 14, 2019, 05:32 AM
May 2019

The M$M reporting out of Venezuela has been anything but entirely accurate. Putin's backing of Maduro is accurate.
Venezuela isn't that far from our shores, maybe Putin wants a military base there?

rainy

(6,083 posts)
2. Or multi-national oil corporations
Tue May 14, 2019, 07:05 AM
May 2019

want access to oil profits but Maduro continues to keep Venezuela oil nationalized for the benefit of the people. US intervened with crippling sanctions not allowing the country to sell its oil on the marked and voila people starve get sick die etc.

2naSalit

(86,066 posts)
3. Unrec...
Tue May 14, 2019, 09:07 AM
May 2019
CodePink or CodePutin? All the stuff going on in the world and they make their stand for Maduro? Idiots.

ripcord

(5,084 posts)
4. The US doesn't recognize the Maduro government
Tue May 14, 2019, 10:08 AM
May 2019

The claim that they were given permission to occupy the embassy is worthless.

McKim

(2,412 posts)
5. Good to See Activists Standing Up
Tue May 14, 2019, 10:43 AM
May 2019

It is good to see some activists standing up to the trump foreign policy. Venezuela has a right to use its resources as it sees fit.

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