newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\nThe citizens and Government of Trinidad and Tobago are being urged to reject the recently announced United States sanctions against Venezuelan government officials accused of violating protestors\u2019 rights during demonstrations earlier this year.
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\nThe call came yesterday from several groups sympathetic to the administration of Venezuela\u2019s President, Nicolas Maduro, including the Trinidad and Tobago Bolivarian Solidarity Movement (TTBSM), the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) and the National Workers Union (NWU).<\/p>\n
Representatives of each read out statements during a rally at the Queen\u2019s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, yesterday morning in the vicinity of the US Embassy on Marli Street. A statement issued on Saturday by the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) was also read out at the event.<\/p>\n
Declaring that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, the TTBSM said, \u201cUS attempts to undermine the democratically-elected government of Venezuela will undermine democracy everywhere, especially in TT, the Caribbean and the larger region of South and Central America.\u201d<\/p>\n
TTBSM declared that those gathered in the savannah spoke with one voice and one aim to say, \u201cNo to US sanctions on Venezuela! No US hegemony in the region, the hemisphere or the plant.\u201d<\/p>\n
In rejecting the latest sanctions, the MSJ said \u201cthe issue is not \u2018democracy\u2019 but oil and other geo-political interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
The political party also said it had \u201cno doubt that the US is pursuing its old imperial agenda of seeking to control strategic resources globally, and in particular, to control oil and energy resources.\u201d MSJ then claimed the \u201cevidence is clear\u201d that Venezuela is being deliberately starved of vital supplies for everyday living, from toilet paper to basic food items, \u201cby local merchants in co-ordination with the US government to destabilise the country in order to promote regime change.\u201d As such, it yesterday called for an immediate removal of all US-imposed sanctions against Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Equally outspoken in its criticism of the US\u2019 actions was the NWU, which said \u201cin a fit of apparent absurdity, US President Barack Obama has declared \u2018a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the US posed by the situation in Venezuela\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
NWU described this as just the latest step in a 15-year campaign by the US to \u201cderail the course of the Bolivarian revolution by instigating, financing and collaborating with right wing elements in Venezuela to overthrow the democratically-elected government of our closest neighbour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rejection also came from UNASUR, which said the Executive Order issued by the US government and passed on March 9 was \u201can interfering threat to sovereignty and the principle of non-intervention in the internal matters of other States.\u201d<\/p>\n
UNASUR then reiterated its call to the US government to evaluate and put in practice alternatives for dialogue with the government of Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Source: http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,208359.html<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro during his recent visit to T&T By Sasha Harrinanan March 16, 2015 – newsday.co.tt The citizens and Government of Trinidad and Tobago are being urged to reject the recently announced United States sanctions against Venezuelan government officials accused of violating protestors\u2019 rights during demonstrations earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,39,109],"tags":[110,978,1015],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-international","category-usa","category-venezuela","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8664,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions\/8664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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