The march was organized by the Committee of Solidarity in Defense of the Sovereignty of the Peoples to demand the return to Venezuela of Maduro and Flores, who were kidnapped by the United States government following the military aggression against Caracas on January 3.

The event is part of a series of protests taking place in various countries marking one month since the detention of the Venezuelan president and his wife in the United States.

The demonstrators denounced the detention of Maduro and Flores as a violation of international law and reiterated their support for the constitutional government of Venezuela in the face of what they described as “foreign interventionism.”

Dominican political and social leader Narciso Isa Conde emphasized that the march is taking place in the heart of the so-called constitutionalist zone, in front of the historic building that housed the Constitutional Government in Arms, presided over by Colonel Francisco Alberto Caamaño, the epicenter of the Popular and Democratic Revolution and the 1965 Patriotic War.

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