Washington, Dec 6 (Prensa Latina) While the Donald Trump administration intensifies its offensive against Venezuela and threatens a dangerous military incursion into that country, voices are rising today in more than 65 cities across the United States to stop a new war.
The nation’s capital; New York; Chicago, Illinois; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Anchorage, Alaska; Athens and Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Bangor, Maine; Baltimore, Maryland; Bend, Oregon; Boise, Idaho; Boston, Massachusetts, have been the scene, among other cities, of this Day of Action in rejection of these winds of war.
In New York City, participants gathered in the central Times Square on Saturday afternoon and marched with Venezuelan flags and yellow banners that read ‘United States out of the Caribbean’, ‘Don’t bleed for oil’, and ‘The people demand, out with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)’
“No to war against Venezuela!” is the slogan of the peaceful demonstrations. Social media posts show messages such as: “We refuse to believe the lies the Trump administration is using to threaten war against Venezuela.”
This is not about democracy or drugs – stressed a text from the pacifist coalition ANSWER – just as it was not about “weapons of mass destruction” (the pretext in 2003 for the US invasion of Iraq), the same lie used to justify decades of wars in the Middle East.
“This is about oil, regime change, and US corporate interests. Public funds should be used to meet people’s needs, not to further enrich oil executives!” ANSWER emphasized on social media.
The People’s Forum also shared details of the demonstration in New York City, where “people have gathered in the streets to make it clear: We can stop this war before it even starts!”
Trump wants to attack Venezuela and push the United States into a catastrophic war, bypassing Congress, violating international law, and inventing pretexts for a military invasion of Venezuela, he said.
He added that 70 percent of Americans oppose the war in the South American nation.
When addressing members of the U.S. armed forces on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, Trump threatened “very soon” about the start of ground operations inside Venezuela to eliminate suspected drug traffickers.
An editorial this week in the Los Angeles newspaper La Opinión urged the Trump administration not to embark on a military adventure with an unpredictable outcome.
The newspaper recalled, in the current climate of tensions, the indiscriminate bombing of more than twenty boats allegedly crewed by drug traffickers and the enormous military deployment of the Pentagon in areas of the Caribbean.
The United States must “consolidate a real strategy to fight drug trafficking instead of using it as an excuse against leaders that Trump doesn’t like,” the newspaper warned.
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