protesting <\/a>U.S. military action against Venezuela.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe organization said the actions by the U.S. over the past few months have been horrific and the capture of Maduro is illegal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Trump Administration has been pretty clear this is not about benefiting the Venezuelan people. If it was, they would have ended the sanctions that have been strangling the Venezuelan people for decades. This is also clearly not in favor of the American working class or benefiting us at all,\u201d Thomas Gross a Pinellas DSA member.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gross said no country should have the right to tell another country how to govern.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said they are concerned that this situation could escalate and that similar actions could become more common among other countries in the future, since the U.S. did it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniel Meininger is a Pinellas DSA member.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe immediate one people point to is Taiwan and China. I think this marks a period of new era for other countries because it doesn\u2019t seem like there are rules,\u201d Meininger said.<\/p>\n
This is in violation of like all the articles in the charter, you know, respecting sovereignty and so the, the, the distinction between politics and war is becoming very blurred if it even exists at all,\u201d Meininger said. <\/p>\n
He said the U.S. is unjustly trying to paint Venezuela as the enemy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been calling Maduro a a narco-terrorist for decades at this point. They have implemented sanctions on Venezuela and the only crime we see, that has to do with America, is because they dare expropriate the oil that belongs in their country,\u201d Meininger said.<\/p>\n
He said this is a part of a larger campaign of military aggression against Venezuela. <\/p>\n
Last Sunday, Pinellas DSA held an emergency \u201cHands off Venezuela\u201d march in St. Petersburg and the group will host another march on January 17th starting at Mirror Lake Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hands Off Venezuela march in St. Petersburg Photo by Leah Burdick Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was captured by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-108484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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