DC Venezuelan embassy might be finally safe!
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 Rev Jesse Jackson expressing support at the Venezuelan Embassy.
Dear Douglas,
We have huge, exciting news about the Venezuelan Embassy! The governments of Venezuela and Turkey have just agreed to sign aProtecting Power Agreement to sustain the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC under the charge of the Turkish government. But in order for this to happen, the State Department must give its stamp of approval. Add your name now to our petition urging the State Department to approve the Turkish Government to operate as the Protecting Power for the Venezuelan embassy in DC.
We spent 37 days inside the embassy paving the way for an agreement like this and now it looks like it might happen. It is in the United States’ interest to approve this agreement because then the Venezuelan government will approve a similar Protecting Power Agreement for the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela reached between the United States and Switzerland. If both agreements are signed, the US Embassy in Caracas would operate under the Swiss government and the Venezuelan Embassy in DC would operate under the Turkish government. That would mean that critical functions for citizens of both embassies such as renewing visas and issuing passports will remain.
The State Department must accept the Protecting Power Agreement. Add your name to the petition.
It was a long and gruelling process — arrests, physical assaults, having electricity turned off — to protect the embassy, but it looks like our work has paid off. Not only has Venezuela found a government to sign a Protecting Power agreement with them, but it has been over six weeks that Juan Guaidó has not been able to move into the embassy building. Not only has the coup attempt in Venezuela, orchestrated by Trump, Bolton, and Guiado, failed but their concurrent mini-coup attempt at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC failed as well. It’s thanks to all of our hard work that this has been achieved. Now we need one last push: tell the State Department to accept the Protecting Powers agreement!
In celebration of all we have achieved,
Ann, Ariel Carley, Caroline, Jodie, Kelly, Kirsten, Lily, Maya, Mark, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Rose, Ryan, Sarah, Tighe, Ursula, and Zena  |
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