Brazil – Rio de Janeiro: Activists Carry Out Anti-Imperialist Demonstration Against the Yankee Intervention in Venezuela
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a report published by A Nova Democracia (AND).
Activists and progressives carried out an anti-imperialist demonstration on December 17 in front of Brazil’s Central Train Station in downtown Rio de Janeiro. The demonstrators, carrying posters, banners, flags, and a truck with loudspeakers, condemned the Yankee imperialist intervention against Venezuela and saluted the Palestinian National Resistance.
The protesters used a truck with loudspeakers to express their solidarity with Venezuela and demonstrate their rejection of growing US intervention in Latin America. The event was a response to the escalation of the low-intensity war waged by Yankee imperialism against the Venezuelan nation, and against the recent “total and complete blockade” on the entry and exit of oil tankers from the country and the hijacking of an oil tanker near the Venezuelan coast.
The activists demanded sovereignty for the peoples and showed solidarity with the anti-imperialist struggle, especially with the Palestinian National Resistance, carrying flags and chanting slogans. During one of the speeches, the demonstrators set fire to an American flag while shouting: “Israel out of Palestinian land, Yankees out of Latin America!”
One of the demands of the demonstration was also severe punishment for the reactionary governor Cláudio Castro, which the protesters denounced as responsible for the massacre that paralyzed the entire city at the end of October.
This event comes in the wake of ongoing protests demanding an end to the genocide against the country’s poor and black people. Complaints also focused on the State government’s eviction policy, which has focused on evicting occupants of properties in the city that house various families due to real estate speculation, and on the role of the police as executioners, operating under a logic of occupation and extermination dictated by the old State, which is increasingly decadent and reactionary, resorting to ever greater use of violence against the popular masses.
