The Vice President of Mobilization and Events from the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Dario Vivas, has announced that people are due to mobilize on Monday in Caracas, in protest against threats levelled against Venezuela by the United States.
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The demonstration will also support actions “against the crime of treason to the homeland” and will work to further the goals of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution.
Vivas said they will open investigations into those who have called for foreign intervention in Venezuela, as well as those who have spread “conspiracies on a national and international scale to destabilize the country politically, economically and socially.”
The march will begin at 9:00 a.m. local time at the Plaza Venezuela in the capital of Caracas, and will end at Carabobo Park, where a debate will be held for the Constituent Assembly’s youth chapter.
Convocan movilización popular este lunes 11S en rechazo al imperialismo y la traición https://t.co/CDOc1g3m3n #VenezuelaDignidadGlobal pic.twitter.com/l0oEY14nJK
— Ernesto Villegas P. (@VillegasPoljak) September 9, 2017
"Call for popular mobilization this Monday in rejection of imperialism and treason."
Last month, the United States placed a new round of sanctions against Venezuela, which ban the trading of Venezuelan debt and prevent the country's state-run oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, from selling new bonds to U.S. citizens or financial groups.
The sanctions also came weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a military threat against Venezuela.
“We have many options for Venezuela and by the way, I’m not going to rule out a military option,” Trump had told reporters.
“A military operation and military option is certainly something that we could pursue.”
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has also placed restrictions on six members of the Constituent Assembly.