SAN ANTONIO, Texas — While Venezuelan expatriates across the country cheered the U.S. capture of socialist strongman Nicolas Maduro, a small group of San Antonio socialists took to the streets Saturday to denounce the operation as “illegal” and “a war crime.” Several dozen members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) gathered in the Alamo City to protest the U.S. military action in Venezuela that led to the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator. The predominantly White and Hispanic crowd of protesters voiced their anger at the action taken by President Donald Trump. In contrast, thousands of Venezuelan expatriates across the United States celebrated Maduro’s arrest and removal.
The PSL members and attendees chanted slogans, beat drums, and marched around the intersection of San Pedro and Basse Avenues for several hours late Saturday afternoon. The group chose the exact location where they staged an earlier protest against a law enforcement raid that led to the arrest of 51 members of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang at an illegal nightclub nearby. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the San Antonio Party for Socialism and Liberation has shifted the focus of its activities from pro-Hamas protests at the height of the Gaza War to protesting enforcement actions by federal law enforcement agencies targeting the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang and protests that support the now captured socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
