The NYPD on Monday was forced to separate clueless lefty US protesters who want Nicolás Maduro freed and Venezuelans and Cubans cheering the socialist dictator’s capture as both sides clashed outside court.
The NYPD on Monday was forced to separate clueless lefty US protesters who want Nicolás Maduro freed and Venezuelans and Cubans cheering the socialist dictator’s capture as both sides clashed outside court.
About 30 demonstrators milled about waving signs reading, “Free President Maduro” and “No War for Venezuela Oil” in front of the downtown Manhattan courthouse where Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were set to make their first appearance before a federal judge on narco-terrorism, drug-trafficking and other charges.
“I don’t understand how the US gets to call him a dictator when he’s been rightfully elected twice by the people of Venezuela in a very transparent election,” said protester Sherry Finkelman, who was born in Brooklyn.
Finkelman’s fact-free assertion ignores that both times Maduro stood for election, the results were widely denounced as illegitimate, and a coalition of 50 countries including the US refused to acknowledge him as Venezuela’s rightful leader after the 2024 race.
Officials with progressive activist groups including Human Rights Watch have denounced the Maduro government’s inhuman tactics as well, once decrying “the country’s countless victims who’ve been tortured and murdered by government forces, as well as the millions who have fled largely because of a humanitarian emergency the government unleashed.
