Caracas has been the scene of demonstrations in support of President Nicolás Maduro, and against the dispossession of the Venezuelan company Citgo by the US.
The districts of La Calendaría, San Agustín, Caricuao and La Pastora, among others, in the Venezuelan capital, hosted massive protest marches on Wednesday against the illegal decision of the United States to sell the assets of the company Citgo Petroleum Corporation (Citgo), subsidiary of the state company PDVSA, in Houston, Texas.
The political person responsible for axis two of the La Calendaría parish, Rosa Salas, told the network teleSUR that the demonstrations are a message to the United States that the Venezuelan people face the illegal and unilateral sanctions imposed against them.
“We are taking to the streets to tell the US that no more sanctions, no more sanctions when we, these Venezuelan people, want to be free,” Salas stressed.
The politician criticized the United States for stealing the assets that belong to the Venezuelan people, saying that the White House Government, now “not able to do so through democratic means,” “is looking for a way to take away our assets.”
The protesters, dressed in the red of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), carried banners expressing their support for the re-election of President Maduro in the presidential elections on July 28.
“We are democratic and we elect our president and that is why we do not want more sanctions […] “We decided to be free in this country through democratic means,” Salas added.
ALBA-TCP condemns US intervention in US internal affairs
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), for its part, on Wednesday strongly condemned the “brazen” US measure to strip the South American country of Citgo and warned that This illegal action “deepens the constant threat to the sovereignty and right to development of Venezuela.”
The measure also violates the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations and International Law, the regional bloc said in a statement, in which it warned that Washington “seeks to obtain assets that do not belong to it, to impose its illegitimate and supremacist agenda.” of intervention in the internal affairs of other States.”
The Maduro Government called the forced sale of shares in its energy firm a “vulgar theft” and considered the measure a new episode of the multiform aggression by the North American country against Venezuela.
Caracas assures that it will adopt all measures to avoid what it calls the biggest robbery in history. The auction process is scheduled to end next July.
