Donald Trump wants to seize Venezuelan oil, and the world cannot allow the law of the strongest to prevail, because we know that it only benefits the rich, the councilwoman, who heads the Group of Communists and Citizens in the Paris City Hall, told Prensa Latina.

According to Primet, remaining passive in the face of what happened on January 3 in the South American nation is to accept that Washington is extending its crusade through the Latin American and Caribbean region, where it has already threatened Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico.

The United States bombed targets in several Venezuelan cities and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.

That action represented an intolerable attack on international law, with a very clear aim: to seize the oil, the councilwoman, who the day before had been one of those who took to the streets of the capital to denounce the aggression against Venezuela, warned.

Hundreds of people gathered at emblematic Parisian sites such as the Trocadero Esplanade and the Place de la Bastille to express their solidarity with the Venezuelan people.

Many of the demonstrators demanded the release of Maduro and Flores.

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