Pictures: Demonstrations in Madrid and Amsterdam to protest the arrest of Nicolas Maduro
About a thousand demonstrators gathered on Sunday morning in front of the in during a US military operation.
The participants carried banners, one of which showed US President Donald Trump swallowing a container of oil in the colors of the Venezuelan flag, and another banner carried the slogan "Trump is an aggressor"While it was written on one of them "No to imperialist aggression against Venezuela"
Repercussions of the US military operation against Venezuela
A number of demonstrators carried the flags of the far-left Podemos party, or the Spanish Communist Party, while others raised the Venezuelan flag.
Maduro was imprisoned in New York awaiting his appearance before a court on drug smuggling charges.
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that his country "You will manage" Venezuela during a transitional period, pointing out that American companies will exploit the oil of Caracas, which has the largest reserves in the world.
Interference violates international law
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose country hosts the Venezuelan opposition candidate for the presidential elections in 2024, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, criticized on Saturday what he described as "Interference violates international law" It would threaten regional stability.
Sánchez called for a transitional period "Fair and dialogue-based"
Hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the US Consulate in Amsterdam on Sunday, raising banners bearing slogans such as: "Go away, American"and"Stop killing for oil"and"Stop Trump’s fossil army"According to the agency "ANB".
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