"The big international news this weekend was Donald Trump's invasion of Venezuela and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Friday night. The whole canard is being sold as fighting narcoterrorism, but Trump pretty much gave away the game Saturday when he said, "We're going to have our very large U.S. oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money.""
"Needless to say, by Saturday, protests were breaking out across the Bay Area. Mission Local reports that about 400 protesters took to Market Street in SF on Saturday, and made their way to the Civic Center statue of renowned South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar. No more coups, no more wars, Latin America isn't yours!, protesters reportedly chanted at the San Francisco rally. Meanwhile in San Jose, KPIX reports there was also a protest of the Venezuelan invasion in that city."
President Trump ordered and executed a military invasion of Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. The operation was publicly framed as fighting narcoterrorism, and Trump said U.S. oil companies would "go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure... and start making money." By Saturday, protests erupted across the Bay Area, with about 400 people marching on Market Street in San Francisco to the Civic Center statue of Simón Bolívar and rallies occurring in San Jose. Chants included "No more coups, no more wars, Latin America isn't yours!" An estimated 80 Venezuelans were killed. International law experts consider the invasion illegal.
Read at sfist.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]