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This comes as Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele issued a statement Saturday expelling Venezuelans diplomats as his government now won’t recognize Maduro as the legitimate head of state.
Social organizations continued Wednesday to safeguard the Venezuelan embassy in El Salvador to prevent a possible occupation of the diplomatic premises in a similar fashion as in Washington around six months ago.
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"We recognize the constitutional legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro, we mobilized to protect the embassy," member of the Venezuelan Embassy Defense Committee Logan Martinez told Prensa Latina.
This comes as Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele issued a statement Saturday expelling Venezuelans diplomats as his government now won’t recognize Maduro as the legitimate head of state, but will receive new diplomatic corps representing opposition leader Juan Guaido.
Soon after, the Venezuelan Embassy Defense Committee was formed by social organizations, students, trade unions and professional associations. These groups have gathered in front of the embassy’s building to share their solidarity with the Venezuelan people and defend the sovereignty of the South American nation.
Meanwhile, members of the Interunion Organization Rafael Aguiñada Carranza (CIRAC) blocked vehicular transit Tuesday in front of the main entrance of the University of El Salvador in protest of Bukele's decision to break diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
@CIRACOFICIAL Condena y rechaza enérgicamente las acciones servilistas de #BukelePelele que buscan socavar las buenas relaciones que mantenemos los pueblos de #Venezuela y #ElSalvador @EmbaVESV @CancilleriaVE @Esc27FInsurge @PartidoPSUV @NicolasMaduro @arpassv @Vevaleon pic.twitter.com/a6byZABzS2
— CIRAC OFICIAL (@CIRACOFICIAL) November 5, 2019
"We remain in resistance and in defense of the dignity of the Venezuelan people who heroically resist with courage and patriotism the brutal and inhuman economic blockade of Washington’s government and its right-wing puppet governments," youth leader Daniela Genovez added.
On Sunday Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Ministry Jorge Arreaza informed it was expelling El Salvador's diplomats from the country in response to Bukele’s decision.
"Salvadoran authorities are breathing oxygen into the failing U.S. strategy of intervention and economic blockade against the people of Venezuela," Venezuela's ministry said, adding that "Bukele is officially assuming the sad role of a pawn of U.S. foreign policy."
The Venezuelan government has repeatedly condemned Guaido who it sees as a U.S. puppet seeking to oust him in a coup and while blaming the U.S. economic sanctions for the country's economic problems, which have affected all aspects of life from oil sales to medicine and food imports.
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