Pickets Say No! to Foul Activities of Lima Group
ALBA
Social Movements Canada, Ottawa Chapter and other activists from the
area and Montreal, held a picket outside the Museum of History in
Gatineau, Quebec, on February 20, where Canada was hosting yet another
Lima Group meeting. The demonstrators vigorously denounced this meeting
and its aims and activities as both illegitimate and illegal, and their
calls included the demand for an end to the sanctions imposed
upon the Venezuelan people, which are causing inhuman hardships.
Coordinated pickets were held in Montreal and Hamilton.
ALBA's
statement, titled "The Lima Group Is not Welcome in Canada!" pointed
out: "It is shameful that the Canadian government under the guise of
returning democracy to Venezuela, is continuing to promote the Lima
Group and follow the policy of interference and aggressive threats
against Venezuela and pushing for regime change on behalf of U.S.
interests against the democratically expressed will of the Venezuelan
people."
 
Ottawa, February 20, 2020
Inside,
Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne
declared: "The world is watching each and every one of us to bring this
new momentum in the quest for the Venezuelan people to democracy," and
he spoke of the need to discuss the "Venezuelan crisis." Ironically,
what the world is watching at this time is the Canadian government's
own crisis as all eyes are on Canada, scrutinizing its violations of
national, international and Wet'suwet'en laws and Indigenous rights. No
less ironic is the fact that the latest country to join the Lima Group
is Haiti, where, on February 29, 2004, the Canadian government played a
key role in organizing the coup d'état which overthrew duly
elected president Aristide and installed a president whom the U.S. was
the first to applaud. The Haitian people have been holding mass
demonstrations for the past year to demand the resignation of the
current president, Jovenal Moïse, who is accused of broad
corruption among
other things.
Such are
the likes of those who claim to be seeking to "restore democracy" in
Venezuela.
Montreal, February 20, 2020
Toronto, February 20, 2020
Hamilton February 20, 2020
Vancouver, February 20, 2020
Montreal picket, February 21, 2020, outside Montreal Council on Foreign
Relations conference.
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