Activists will stage a protest in front of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington on Saturday to denounce the US government’s decision to forcibly enter the diplomatic facility in violation of international law and arrest four activists residing there, organizer Ariel Gold said on Thursday.
“We will gather on Saturday to say no way to US war in Venezuela, to say no way to the US coup in that country and say no way to violating the Vienna Convention and international law,” said Gold, a national co-director for Code Pink and activist with the Embassy Protection Collective. “So we are having an all-out for Venezuela, an all out for hands off Venezuela Saturday at noon right here at the embassy, and we encourage all people to come and show up for that.”
Earlier on Thursday, US police broke into the embassy and arrested four members of the collective who had been living there since April 10 in order to prevent the United States and Venezuela’s opposition from taking over the facility.
The State Department said police carried out the arrest at the request of self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido’s representative Carlos Vecchio.