VIDEO: Pro and Anti-Venezuela Coup Protestors Face Off in Front of White
House
March 16, 2019 0 Comments
Demonstrators for and against regime change in Venezuela converged on the
White House on Saturday and there were some angry scenes as D.C. mounted
police took their positions in Lafayette Park.
Rising tensions in Venezuela boiled over in front of the White House on
Saturday as a protest rally against U.S. intervention to overthrow the
elected government in Caracas was met by counter-demonstrators who asked
Donald Trump, who was at home in the presidents mansion, for help in
overthrowing the government of Nicolas Maduro.
Washingtons open support for self-declared president Juan Gauidó has so far
failed to dislodge Maduro from office as the Venezuelan military digs in and
U.S. officials strongly hint that American military intervention could be
next. After a week of nation-wide power failures blamed by the Venezuelan
government on U.S. cyber attacks, American Airlines abruptly cancelled all
flights into and out of the country.
Among the speakers denouncing Washingtons attempted coup were activists
Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Lee Camp and Brian Becker, who called the
Trump administrations moves a naked grab for the worlds largest oil
reserves in Venezuela. The anti-coup protestors, numbering about 2,000,
later marched through the streets of the capital, stopping in front of the
Trump International Hotel, where Becker denounced the billionaire president
for serving billionaires interests while ignoring those of the Venezuelan
and American people.
The protestors then marched to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church where
they were addressed via Skype by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Dan Ellsberg
and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, as well as by activist
groups who traveled to Washington from around the country.
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