Mélenchon condemns Trump however not the Venezuelan regime, Le Pen embarrassed in her relationship with the American president | EUROtoday

On the novel left, and on the far proper, Donald Trump’s navy offensive in Venezuela, Saturday January 3, aroused antagonistic reactions, testifying to the vexed relations that Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen keep, the primary with this Latin American regime, which he as soon as praised, the second with the American president.

On the Place de la République in Paris, tons of of individuals gathered early Saturday night, within the freezing chilly, to specific their opposition to the American assault, a gathering on the initiative of La France Insoumise (LFI), the French Communist Party (PCF) and the small Trotskyist formation Permanent Revolution.

“There are no good invasions, there are only bad ones. No pretext authorizes a nation to invade its neighbor and even less if it claims to do so to resolve the problems there.proclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon, surrounded by a host of Ile-de-France deputies, including Sophia Chikirou, Mathilde Panot, and Eric Coquerel. Qualifying as “pretext” the combat in opposition to drug trafficking first invoked by Donald Trump to justify the Venezuelan intervention, the chief of LFI denounced “the extended control of the United States” on oil, “the resource that underpins their power”.

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