Even the embassy building was transformed after weeks of protests in Georgetown.
By Marissa J. Lang Marissa J. Lang Local reporter focused on D.C. area news Email Bio Follow May 25 at 2:38 PM After weeks of round-the-clock protests, police patrols and sometimes violent clashes, the Washington street on which the Venezuelan Embassy sits has returned to a quiet order.
“Obviously, controlling the embassy in Washington is not the same thing as controlling the streets of Caracas,” said Allen S. Weiner, director of Stanford Law School’s program on international and comparative law. “But it’s symbolically important.”Signs that were hung by protesters who had been staying in the Venezuelan Embassy. Code Pink and its supporters moved quietly into the building in early April.
“I have been protesting for years, and it used to be that someone would organize one protest and then we wouldn’t hear anything from each other for months,” said Dilianna Bustillos, who helped organize the pro-Guaidó demonstrations at the embassy. “When we were suddenly there for two weeks, we started to really see what strengths we all had as individuals and as a group, and how we could leverage that to help further this cause.
[Activists removed from Venezuelan Embassy are released after federal court appearance on misdemeanor charge] “We knew it was a big deal when we started sleeping in this embassy, but I don’t think we understood all the implications that have now come into play,” she said. “Usually, we’re standing in front of the White House, yelling and screaming and nobody pays attention to us. But this is something real. Something significant.”
Carla Barqueiro, a professor at Goucher College in Maryland who specializes in international relations and Latin America, said the embassy occupiers’ decision to align themselves with Maduro may have hurt their cause and diluted their anti-intervention message.
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