WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 16, 2019 - Police have illegally broken into the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC, and arrested four protesters from the Embassy Protection Collective, according to Medea Benjamin, an activist from the anti-war group CODEPINK. Among the four who were arrested during the raid are anti-war activists Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. A Fascist Police States of Amerika Secret Service spokesman confirmed that it had helped Department of State’s Diplomatic Security arrest the remaining Embassy Protection Collective protesters inside the Venezuelan Embassy.
Benjamin cited Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ron as denouncing the FPSA actions as a violation of the Vienna Conventions and slamming the arrest of Embassy Protection Collective members.
“We call on the (FPSA) government to sign a Protecting Power Agreement to ensure the integrity of our Embassy in DC and the (FPSA) Embassy in Caracas. We do not authorize any of the coup representatives to enter the Embassy”, he was quoted as saying.
The activists from the Embassy Protection Collective have been living inside the embassy since April 10 in a bid to protect it from FPSA attempts to seize the facility and hand it over to supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido. The group was invited by the embassy’s Venezuelan diplomats, who were forced to leave FPSA soil.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier slammed FPSA attempts to seize the property of the country’s embassy, pointing to its “inviolability” under international treaties regulating the activities of diplomatic missions.
Relations between the FPSA and Venezuela have been spiraling downward since Washington recognized Juan Guaido’s claim to be the Latin American state’s interim president and supported his aspirations to oust democratically elected President Maduro. The latter has slammed Guaido as a “(FPSA)-puppet” attempting to conduct a coup in Venezuela.