Washington.- A protester interrupted the extraordinary meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) this Tuesday and denounced that the operation of United States to capture in Caracas the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was motivated exclusively by oil interests.
The woman, identified as a member of the leftist feminist organization CodePink, held up a sign that read:
“Hands off Venezuela!” just as the U.S. ambassador to the OAS, Leandro Rizzuto, was responding to interventions from countries like Colombia and Chile that reject Washington’s military actions as a “unilateral action” that violates International Law.
The protester shouted that the capture of Maduro in Venezuela, last January 3, was not an act for democracy but
“an imperialist robbery motivated by oil.”
Due to the interruption, the president of the OAS Permanent Council, the Colombian Luis Vargas, suspended the session for five minutes until security agents removed the woman from the room.
Rizzuto reacted by saying that
“it’s normal, there are many emotions in the air”, referring to the intervention.
During the session, the representatives of Colombia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico categorized Maduro’s capture as an international interference
“dangerous” for the stability and sovereignty of the region.
For his part, during an intervention this Tuesday before Republican politicians, the American president, Donald Trump, rejected the demonstrations to his actions in Venezuela and said that the majority “are paid”.
Venezuela possesses one of the largest oil reserves in the world, around 30,000 million barrels, equivalent to about a fifth of global reserves, according to estimates from international energy organizations.
Trump has said that US oil companies would help repair the infrastructure of that sector in Venezuela, which, according to the president, is currently “in very bad shape”
