In this second demonstration at the US diplomatic mission, the Secretary General of the Autonomous Workers’ Central Union of Argentina (CTA-A), Hugo Godoy, stated: “We are here to say NO to the military aggression of the United States.
We will defend Latin America and the Caribbean, and all the surrounding sea, as a territory of peace. We demand the immediate release of the kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro,” he declared.
“We also demand that the National Congress of Argentina declare its rejection of this military intervention,” he added.
Oscar de Isasi, secretary of the CTA-A in the Province of Buenos Aires, stated that “the main goal of this aggression, as has been made clear, it’s not drug trafficking, but the plundering of Venezuela’s largest oil reserves in the world and its other mineral resources.”
De Isasi added that “the plunder is broader; it includes the lithium in Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina—in short, the natural resources of Latin America—which is the true target of the U.S. government. That is why we are mobilizing to demand that this plunder be stopped,” he emphasized.
Ariel Elger, secretary of the Regional Communist Party in the City of Buenos Aires, stressed that “faced with Washington’s interventionist plans, we must stand with the people of Latin America and implement our own plans of resistance; we must clarify for those who still have doubts that this was an infamous and treacherous invasion.”
The burning of American flags and effigies of Uncle Sam, a symbol of the United States, which had been relegated to the past, returned to the streets, as happened on Saturday and Monday in Buenos Aires.
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