Posted on 01/03/2026 10:06:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Protests erupted across the United States on Saturday following President Donald Trump’s military attack on Venezuela late Friday.
Demonstrations were held throughout the Monterey Bay region, including in Santa Cruz, Salinas and Monterey. Organized by Indivisible Pajaro Valley, protesters waved signs reading “No Blood for Oil,” “No New Wars,” and “Enough Is Enough.”
The two-hour protest drew cheers and honking horns from passing motorists.
Following airstrikes on civilian and government sites in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, U.S. troops detained President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and transported them to the United States to face criminal charges, according to international news reports. The action has sent shockwaves around the world.
The Trump administration said Maduro was captured to face U.S. drug-trafficking charges and to dismantle what it described as a criminal regime.
“It was an assault like people have not seen since World War II,” Trump told reporters during a Saturday press conference. “It was a force against a heavily fortified military fortress in the heart of Caracas to bring outlaw dictator Nicolás Maduro to justice. This was one of the most stunning, effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history.”
Trump has framed the operation as part of a broader strategy to combat narcotics trafficking, weaken Maduro’s grip on power and reassert U.S. influence in the region, including over Venezuela’s oil resources.
vote for the best businesses in santa cruz county, california The move drew sharp criticism from local, state and federal lawmakers.
“‘E pluribus unum: out of many, one’ guides our democracy and reminds us that our strength comes from shared responsibility and respect for the rule of law,” said Assemblymember Dawn Addis. “While Venezuela’s leaders have caused immense harm to their own people, President Trump bypassing Congress and the American people in a direct takeover does not make us safer. We are a nation of laws, and the president must operate within, not outside of, them. American democracy is a flame that has never been blown out, and we cannot allow one man’s autocratic ideation to extinguish it now.”
Addis said she plans to introduce legislation next week aimed at protecting democratic governance.
Narco-Dictator supporters?
Hey, protesting IDIOTS:
We tried it your way for umpteen years. Now sit down, shut up, and watch how things are done the MAGA way!
A traffic disruption in Beanerville Ca, and the author gets all moist.
Huh?
Who the hell is this Dawn Adidas bimbo. Never heard of her retarded butt. Does the dork really think she’s that important?
Like Sadam?
“Just Gimme My Drugs!” —Protest Sign
Rent-a-mobs don’t count.
CC
Let them all move to Tea-ah-wanna.
You are so right—the “let’s turn this over to Congress” types do not understand the wisdom and leadership of the MAGA position
Trump does understand.
Same people who think Israel was mean to Hamas
So they are protesting the invasion of venezuala by russia and iran? Whoops, silly me, of course not. They were silent while that invasion went on.
Fentanyl laced cocaine will be in short supply and these cry babies are wetting their diapers. Give them powdered sugar and call it snort.
Indivisible Pajaro Valley is a group of leftish organizers that are there to protect the Pajaro Valley in northern California just west of the Santa Cruz mountains from anything conservative. Has absolutely nothing to do with Venezuela. But I guess they had a slow week.
wy69
I live not too far from Santa Cruz, in a place I term Karenville. I’m sure most of the populace concur with this message. They’d be in their own bubble, exempt that I’m trapped in the Peoples’ Republic of Kalifornia.
Emperor Trump causes Daddy issues for AWFL girls and Demtràns. Film at 11:00.
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