Featured photo: People gather in Caracas on August 10 to protest the blockade.
On Monday, August 5, President Trump signed an Executive Order that worsens the US blockade of Venezuela. The order can be used to basically go after any person or entity that supports the Maduro administration. It also includes restrictions on travel for people who support the current government. Here is Popular Resistance’s statement about the blockade.
While the order has language saying it won’t impact access to food and medicine, just two days after it was signed a ship carrying 25 thousands tons of soy was held up in Panama.
Citing the blockade, the Maduro government decided not to send representatives to the next round of talks with the opposition in Barbados. Instead, millions of Venezuelans were urged to sign a document that will be delivered to the United Nations denouncing the blockade.
Saturday, August 10, was declared a World Protest Day against the Venezuelan Blockade. Telesur reports:
Carrying national flags and wearing red sport hats, thousands began to gather early in the morning at squares and other public places. They would then take to the streets of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, protest against the U.S. President.
President Maduro thanked the citizen support and invited the Venezuelan people to continue participating in the defense of the peace and sovereignty of their country.
“I greet the World’s Great Day of Protest to reject the U.S. empire and the brutal blockade against Venezuela. I invite the entire Venezuelan people to sign in defense of our independence, peace and national sovereignty. Raise your voice with dignity! #NoMoreTrump,” he tweeted.
Through the social media networks, it was also possible to appreciate actions that social and political organizations from abroad offered to the Bolivarian revolution.
Similar events in rejection of the U.S. blockade took place in countries such as Australia, Angola, Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, Ethiopia, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Namibia, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa, Turkey and the U.S.
“In addition, several social leaders and political leaders have joined the world protest, one of whom was the Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who shared a supporting text to Maduro,” the Spanish outlet El Mundo reported.
“The dignity of the Venezuelan people and the strength of the Bolivarian Revolution do not break with criminal imperial sanctions. #HandsOffVenezuela,” Diaz-Canel, tweeted.
#VIDEO | Venezuela se movilizó por el derecho de un pueblo a construir su futuro, por los valores de la autodeterminación de los pueblos, el respeto a la soberanía nacional y la no intervención en los asuntos internos.#NoMásTrump#TrumpDesbloqueaVenezuela pic.twitter.com/jkQsiK1vjE
— Cancillería Venezuela ?? (@CancilleriaVE) August 11, 2019
In Berlin, Germany, activists protested in front of the US Consulate.
In the United States, protests took place in San Francisco:
#SanFrancisco activists joined International Day of Solidarity w #Venezuela: #TrumpUnBlockVenezuela #TrumpDesbloqueaVenezuela @NicolasMaduro @FidelidadACuba @dcabellor @CubaVenezCte @ICAP_cuba @siempreconcuba @answercoalition @FreddyBernal @AvilaFeraaso @jorgerpsuv @BrianBeckerDC pic.twitter.com/v8zBEQaqt7
— Gloria La Riva (@GloriaLaRiva) August 11, 2019
and Washington, DC:
No coup, no sanctions, no war on venezuela!#TrumpDesbloqueaVenezuela #TrumpUnblockVenezuela pic.twitter.com/7u6pwIf4Rp
— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) August 10, 2019
There were also protests in Benin (in West Africa):
Desde el oeste de África nos envían fotos Los Amigos de Venezuela (ALAV). En la República de Benín también condenan la aplicación de sanciones económicas contra Venezuela y dicen #NoMoreTrump#TrumpDesbloqueaVenezuela. pic.twitter.com/Y8aEu5Q3sE
— #NoMasTrump (@DesbloqueaVE) August 11, 2019
Indonesia:
#FOTOSTeleSUR | Organizaciones sociales y políticas alrededor del mundo rechazaron el bloqueo unilateral que realiza #EEUU sobre #Venezuela
Colectivos en #Indonesia repudian la política injerencista de @realDonaldTrump #NoMásTrump #NoMoreTrump #HandsOffVenezuela pic.twitter.com/emNSiU9hPx
— teleSUR TV (@teleSURtv) August 10, 2019
#Vancouver #Canada protesting at the #US consulate against blockade & war on #Venezuela #TrumpHandsOffVenezuela #TrumpUnblockVenezuela #TrumpDesbloqueaVenezuela #venezuelavictoriosa #NoMasTrump #NoMoreTrump #VenezuelaResisteAlBloqueo @DesbloqueaVE @EmbaVenezCanada @CancilleriaVE pic.twitter.com/8MbSD03d09
— FireThisTime (@FTT_np) August 10, 2019
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Chanting “No more Trump!”
From #SaintVincent and the #Grenadines, people say: #NoMoreTrump!!#HandsOffVenezuela#NoMasTrump pic.twitter.com/3cU9MPGcmi
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) August 11, 2019
Portugal:
¡Claro y Raspao desde Portuguesa! #NoMoreTrump #NoMasTrump #NoMoreTrump #NoMasTrump #NoMoreTrump @NicolasMaduro pic.twitter.com/eUHY6o1xhC
— Angelo Rivas R (@AngeloRivasVen) August 10, 2019
Chile:
En la Embajada de Venezuela en Chile también llegan los movimientos sociales y la solidaridad junto a la @UBPChile para decir #NoMasTrump #TrumpDesbloqueaVenezuela pic.twitter.com/tC85pIX28k
— Paola Dragnic (@PaoladrateleSUR) August 10, 2019
Palestine:
#Palestine West Bank demonstrates in front of US .
No coup
No sanctions
No new U.S. war! #HandsOffVenezuela #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/JeJb3i3H7I— Don Foreman (@EndBlockadeCuba) August 11, 2019
Grenada:
In Grenada different political, social and unions groups participated in the World Demostration against the Donald Trump Government agretions and in solidarity with Venezuela #NoMoreTrum #NoMasTrump #VenezuelaHeroica @CancilleriaVE pic.twitter.com/MkR2Qei6aH
— Embassy of Venezuela in Grenada (@EmbaVEGrenada) August 11, 2019
Australia:
#LaFoto ?| Integrantes de Australia Solidarity with Latin America (Solidaridad Australiana con América Latina) manifestaron este sábado en rechazo a los ataques de Trump contra #Venezuela #NoMásTrump pic.twitter.com/5EaA2n5hqK
— VTV CANAL 8 (@VTVcanal8) August 10, 2019
Syria:
Como juventud palestina, expresamos nuestra solidaridad con #Venezuela. Nadie podrá derrocar a Venezuela mientras estén con ella todos los pueblos del mundo y sean capaces de defenderla.
¡Viva Venezuela!, ¡Viva Palestina! y ¡Viva Siria!#NoMasTrump#NoMoreTrump pic.twitter.com/0Hit3i8bMy— سفارة فنزويلا في سورية (@EmbaVESiria) August 10, 2019
Jóvenes de #Siria envían su solidaridad al pueblo de #Venezuela:
“Desde Siria, condenamos el embargo económico impuesto por los EE.UU contra el país hermano, esto es una violación de los derechos humanos de los venezolanos.”#NoMoreTrump#NoMasTrump pic.twitter.com/49wb8mwDy8— سفارة فنزويلا في سورية (@EmbaVESiria) August 10, 2019
South Africa:
From South Africa ?? we join the campaign #NoMoreTrump
Venezuela has the right to self-determination
We are united by active international solidarity @SACP1921 @redeuropave @VenSolidarity @planwac @HOVcampaign @SacpMp @POPCRU1989 @_cosatu @BDSsouthafrica @dewandeswardt pic.twitter.com/oJmaz1Sabb— SASUVE (@sasuve_) August 10, 2019
Russia:
#Venezuela In Moscow, Russia Communist Party expressed solidarity with Dictator Maduro…SURPRISE ?? #NoMasNicolas #NoMoreMaduro
pic.twitter.com/Fjg02G8XWK— Michael Welling (@WellingMichael) August 11, 2019
Germany:
Embajada de Venezuela en Alemania@EmbaVEAlemania
·#NoMasTrump #NoMoreTrump https://t.co/7E3lMtqos9— Berlin gegen Krieg (@berlinSTOPwar) August 10, 2019
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