Representatives of several social movements, student groups, and political organizations carried flags and banners while chanting slogans and criticizing US foreign policy toward Latin America.

The demonstrators, of all ages, rejected the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

Among them was 71-year-old Professor Raimundo Santos, who stated that what had happened represents a threat, adding, “We cannot passively accept an intervention like the one occurring in Venezuela.”

Rosa Linh, 25, a student at the University of Brasilia and a member of the Revolutionary Workers’ Movement, emphasized the internationalist nature of the protest.

Santa Alves, an activist with the Union of Black Men and Women for Equality, criticized Washington’s actions.

Maria das Neves, president of the Union of Brazilian Women in the Federal District, declared, “We need a Latin America with sovereignty and autonomy for its people. We are here to affirm ‘Trump Out of Venezuela,'” she stressed.

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