SACP members picket outside US Embassy in solidarity of Venezuela
SANDTON – The South African Communist Party (SACP) members gather outside the American Embassy.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) members have on 8 February picketed outside the American Embassy in solidarity with the people of Venezuela in Sandton. They want the US government to stop intervening in the matters happening in Venezuela.
The small group at the embassy consisted of members from SACP, ANC Cosatu, Nehau, Sasuve and Focus.
“We hereby wish to urge your government to take immediate action and stop its extraterritorial intervention in Venezuela and your attempt to illegally impose through a coup d’etat an unelected, undemocratic and illegitimate Venezuela opposition politician in the form of Juan Guaido as the president of Venezuela,” reads the memorandum.
A small group of protestors from the SACP have gathered outside of the American embassy in Sandton @Sandton_News https://t.co/hztTwkoa9l pic.twitter.com/0lI0VnhVsW
— Laura Pisanello (@LauraPisanello) February 8, 2019
According to the SACP they are here to "condemn in the strongest possible terms the imperialist regime change agenda advanced mainly by the USA against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" @Sandton_News
— Laura Pisanello (@LauraPisanello) February 8, 2019
This comes after the US recognised the head of the opposition-led National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the interim president of Venezuela. The group demanded the US government to stop what they describe as an illegal and dangerous intervention of the sovereign nation of Venezuela.
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https://www.citizen.co.za/sandton-chronicle/130067/cosatu-unhappy-about-unavailability-of-premier/
