For the second time this month, the Friends of Venezuela Solidarity Committee stood within environs of the British High Commission and the Canadian High Commission to peacefully protest against the “imperialist aggression” displayed by the Bank of England and the support for opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido.
Led by attorney Lalu Hanuman and general secretary of Caribbean Movement for Peace David Denny, the group held placards which said Don’t Steal Their Gold Ms May, Canada Be a Leader Not A Follower and Our Caribbean A Zone of Peace.
Speaking with Barbados TODAY, Hanuman voiced that the group was protesting along the Culloden Road and Collymore Rock intersection because the actions by Britain have made Venezuela “victims of imperialist aggression.”
The Bank of England has blocked Venezuela’s attempts to retrieve $1.2 billion worth of gold stored as the nation’s foreign reserves in Britain. The loss of the gold would be a significant blow to the country’s finances and hinder the ability to obtain hard currency necessary for the importation of goods.
“The British central bank is refusing to release some 31 tons of Venezuelan gold that Venezuela government put there for safekeeping, so in effect the British government has stolen the Venezuelan gold. . . .It is Venezuelan property so they should release it,” said Hanuman.
As the Columbia border remains blocked by Venezuelan troops, reports from the international media state the first shipment of humanitarian aid has entered from the Brazilian border. Hanuman described the efforts by the US to provide humanitarian aid as ironic.
He claimed the crisis in Venezuela was orchestrated by the individuals who offered them assistance.
“The only reason why Venezuela is in the predicament it is in today is because of the sanctions that have been there for some five years which is stopping the government in Venezuela from importing basic food items and also medicine.
We are saying that it is ironical, hypocritical and totally a human rights violation for them to be turning around and saying they are providing so-called aid to Venezuela when in fact they have been preventing basic necessities and medicines from entering Venezuela for the last five years,” he continued. (KK)
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“The only reason why Venezuela is in the predicament it is in today is because of the sanctions that have been there for some five years which is stopping the government in Venezuela from importing basic food items and also medicine.”
What a crock! The socialist policies that govern Venezuela have brought the country to it’s knees. Also the raping of the country’s finances by Maduro’s cronies, one of whom recently was sent to prison for laundering $1 billion that enriched several senior officials, has essentially bankrupt a once prosperous nation.
These protesters need to go and live in Venezuela and don’t ever darken our shores with their presence.
President Nicolás Madman has to GO
When I saw the headline: “Locals stand in solidarity with Venezuela”, I was looking to see hundreds or thousands protesting but lo & behold, when I opened the article, the pic showed between 5-6 individuals holding up placards!
Come on, BU…. is this news?
Next time, qualify your headline to read: “Half-dozen locals stand in solidarity with Venezuela”!
Commissiong supporting from the sidelines since he can’t be seen as biased in his role as ambassador, but he definitely has a hand in this farce.
I could of told you who would of been there without looking at. the picture.
Maduro needs to start focusing on rebuilding his country ,the plans which he has laid out for restructuring.
It has come to the point whereby he needs to keep security tight, but not get distracted by what`s going on, because they are going to intensify, but mainly as a distraction to keep Maduro from focusing on the most important issues, reaching out to all Venezuelans financial and economic needs , gone are the days when keeping a portion of your citizens in poverty is no longer a threat to its security .
All these media questions is used to get an understanding of how he thinks to be used against him, his foreign minister is doing
a very fine job speaking on his behalf.
If one follows the interviews which Maduro has done and then follow the outcome of attacks against him its evident that those interviews are used against him.
I reiterate Maduro should let his foreign ambassador take the spotlight on questions, focus on rebuilding his country, strengthen his security and country borders, raise taxes on all American Foreign-based companies in his country stop trusting Europeans, eradicate drugs coming into his country,
Maduro should amp up his speeches on Uk stealing and unwilling to give back Venezuela’s gold ect .
Amp up speeches on UK and America as theives, violent and seek to retrieve Venezuela gold.
In general, Maduro needs to control the narrative, not America, not the UK , not Europe.
In general, the entire Caribbean needs to change the way they do things, why are Any American troops on any Caribbean soil, Caribbean countries need to take back their sovereignty period.
Europeans have spent their entire existence, stealing, murdering, plundering, lying, manipulating, and yet still they live on doing the same exact things and Caribbean Islands keep inviting them on their shores as kings and queens.
When is the Caribbean going to stop their children, children from admiring their rapist?
The word says it is better to eat a dry crust with peace than a banquet filled with hate and trouble and that is all Caucasian brings. If the Caribbean is not careful it would not be long before they will also be destabilized, just look at Jamaica and its puppet governments. right in their back yard black and black crime are prevalent.
@Donna Andersson – Big salute to you. I could not have said this better myself. This whole Venezuela thing is nothing more than a fight for white/Caucasian/edomite dominance. And this people should just stay clear and fight them own ongoing pit-falls. This people have forgotten their own demise or think that things have changed while currently living in little England as 3rd class aka bottom of the pile citizens. The Chinese invasion will push them down another notch.
Why don’t you ask the dictator to allow the aid to stop the suffering of millions? Leaches!
Here we go again. They stand as hand full of ppl supporting a narcotrafic cartel, the same as protesting against the Chapó life sentence. What a shame.
How do you feel supporting a regime that is using inminates as an extermination force to kill ppl that were trying just to help to enter the humanitarian aid to Venezuela and this same aid which was only medicines were burned by Maduro in his criminals. By the way all the Venezuelan ppl support the UK in holding our assets that otherwise will be stole by Maduro. Please note that David Denis is being pay by Maduro to stand as an opportunist by those traffic lights, he will cashing his zero sense of humanity tomorrow at Coconut Walk.
“victims of imperialist aggression.”? For the last 20 years we have been victim of Cuban aggression who took over our army, our communications and identification systems. It is an inmoral position to be protesting for a gold that belongs to Venezuelans and thank to the support of the UK the narco regime was not able to steal what’s left. Cubans have been “stealing, murdering, plundering, lying, manipulating…” in Venezuela and no one said a word. Only since January that the US gave its support to the Constitutional interim President Juan Guaidó, is that suddenly all anti imperialists blame the US.
The position of the so called “friends” of Venezuela is an immoral one. While they pretend to care and protest hundreds of Venezuelans were being attack and killed by the Maduro narco regime. Maduro ordered to burn 2 truck with 40 tons of humanitarian aid. What kind of a monsters does that to his own people? And what kind of human being supports that?
“victims of imperialist aggression.”? For the last 20 years we have been victim of Cuban aggression who took over our army, our communications and identification systems. It is an inmoral position to be protesting for a gold that belongs to Venezuelans and thank to the support of the UK the narco regime was not able to steal what’s left. Cubans have been “stealing, murdering, plundering, lying, manipulating…” in Venezuela and no one said a word. Only since January that the US gave its support to the Constitutional interim President Juan Guaidó, is that suddenly all anti imperialists blame the US.
The position of the so called “friends” of Venezuela is an immoral one. While they pretend to care and protest hundreds of Venezuelans were being attack and killed by the Maduro narco regime. Maduro ordered to burn 2 truck with 40 tons of humanitarian aid. What kind of a monsters does that to his own people? And what kind of human being supports that?
https://www.facebook.com/1441383032764735/posts/2351116841791345?sfns=mo
idiots
The devil does find work for idle hands and idiots
A foreign government funded opposition.. is called?
I dont know why BT even bothered to post this article. Is real news that scarce that every time 4 clowns gather we are going to waste time posting it? if so i was in Oistins this morning and 4 fishermen were arguing over something, so you better get there quick and post it too!
The truth is those who are communist minded and anti-democracy will support Maduro, other than those few thinking people could do the same. I would like Denny et al to tell me the difference between how Maduro is treating his people and how the African dictators treated theirs in the past years? Yes the army has not yet adopted a shoot to kill approach, instead many soldiers with conscience actual broke rank on the border and allowed people to pass. I support 103 the holding of their gold reserves, because when a new government is in power those reserves will probably be all that is left for them to rebuild the country on. Do the 4 of you picketing and those supporting them understand the state of things in Venezuela, if not let me help you. A litre of drinking water has doubled in price each week for the past 3 weeks. So the same bottle that costed say 1 dollar US 3 weeks ago now cost $8, so the average Venezuelan cant even buy water now. So what does Maduro do? He orders the humanitarian aid destroyed which contained what among other thing? BOTTLED WATER!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/22/china-russia-have-deep-financial-ties-venezuela-heres-whats-stake/?utm_term=.e0f1ae6a84a1
Who are these 4 poor misguided RHs.
On the wrong side of history
Who feels it knows it. Many have not been to Venezuela so dont know how it is with people there. I speak to some almost daily and feel their pain so if people don’t know what is going on down there should not take a stacne until they know the truth.
Yes This Reeks of Commie Sing Song the CARICOM COMMUNIST Ambassador’s involvement….This Little Ban and their Organization Commie headed until recently!!
Lalu Hanuman and general secretary of Caribbean Movement for Peace…WHAT A SHAM, COMMUNIST AREN’T ABOUT PEACE They are about Division and Chaos…
Socialist has certain things in common…Because of their love of Control of people’s lives they have a few Favourite Tactics…
1 They Create Division, they find an Enemy.
2 they always try to appear Sanctimonious or Virtuous
3 They like to Blame Jews for Everything
4 They like to Blame America
5 They like to use the Environmentalism to get more Taxes and Create More Control.
6 Because of their Socialist Mind set they are UNABLE to Create Wealth they only know about Dividing the Wealth of a Country and Squandering it until its gone
Are You Supporting these Fallacies?
6 — The fall in oil prices in late 2014 caused Venezuela’s economic problems
Other major oil exporting countries were not forced into similar difficulties as a result of a price decline. High oil prices before 2014 merely helped to disguise the disastrous path the country was taking. Venezuela had used the high prices to borrow huge amounts, which it then was stretched to repay. It was also giving away over 200,000 barrels of oil per day – half of which to Cuba. The regime had destroyed the rest of the productive economy, so its dependence on oil was much enhanced. The main problem with its oil sector is not so much prices – which naturally go up and down – but the reduction in capacity through mismanagement. Venezuela now produces only a third as much oil as it did when Chavez came to power, the same level as in the 1940s.
7 — The Maduro government has survived because the people have been prepared to defend it — with their lives if necessary
The regime, its security forces and hired militias have been terrorising the people. This is particularly true in the poorest slums where ‘Operation to Liberate the People’ has claimed around 10,000 lives. The Organisation of American States has referred the Venezuelan Government to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, citing 8,000 extrajudicial killings, 12,000 arbitrary arrests and the detention of 13,000 political prisoners. It is doubtful that many of the regime’s forces will be prepared to risk their lives defending it. After all, the top military scattered when a malfunctioning drone appeared above a military parade. They’re in it for money, not their lives.
8 — Wasn’t Maduro democratically elected?
No he wasn’t. The election itself was called by an illegitimate body, the “Constituent National Assembly” (created by Maduro to supplant the legitimate National Assembly) which barred many opposition political parties from taking part. Many popular opposition candidates were jailed by the government, blocked from taking part in the election or forced into exile. The international community and the National Assembly rejected the results and have called for free and fair elections.
9 — National Assembly President Juan Guaido has just appointed himself President. Is this a coup?
The Venezuelan constitution provides for the National Assembly President to become interim President when there isn’t a President appointed according to the constitution. It is the job of the interim President to organise free and fair elections to choose a new President. Juan Guaido is just following constitutional requirements.
10 — If the opposition takes power, it would mean the end of the social programmes that have provided free healthcare and education, not to mention eradicating malnutrition
What social programmes? The health system has now collapsed and few children go to school. As for malnutrition, 7 million people suffer from malnutrition children are now dying of it, and the hunger rate has tripled since 2010. The opposition have pledged to introduce rational economic policies so that social spending can be restarted.”
the situation seems very complicated on one hand at this point their is no denying Maduro has horrible messed up Venezuela. The foreign intervention, the seizing of assets, recognizing an unelected gov as the official gov because of backroom deals for oil is also very shady. My heart goes out to the people of Venezuela trapped between a snake and a wolf.
I rather have the USA guarding our chickens, than to have the Russians or the Chinese,who are trying to dominate. Marudo is as huge a clown as is Donald Trump, both sit on either end of the seesaw, with a grand egotistical idiot smile on their faces.
Hi am with the goverment of Venezuela i dont trust the american it because that country have oil if that country did not have oil the american would nit wsnt someone that will say yes sir how much you want,me i will never forgive the america for what they did to my jamaica never