"Hundreds of activists took to the streets of Caracas to support President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and demand their release from the US federal prison, after the couple was detained in a military 'Operation Absolute Resolve.' Footage filmed on Monday shows members of the Comuna 5 de Marzo organisation unfolding banners on bridges and inside the El Valle tunnel, reading: 'Doubting is betrayal. Commune or nothing. We will win.' Participants said that the initiative is aimed at showing support for Maduro and his wife. "Nicolas represents us as a working-class man. He represents us with the humility and love he has shown since President Chavez entrusted him with the commune members, placing the life project in his hands as if it were his own. Since then, President Nicolas Maduro has stood with us through this extremely difficult period, enduring a state of permanent struggle alongside us," said Anais Marquez, spokesperson of Comuna 5 de Marzo. Heller de Lopez, representative of native organisation Crea, added that the actions were also meant to show their rejection of what they described as US 'imperialism' and its alleged attempt to seize Venezuela's natural resources. "Today we are here fighting, struggling against the empire and against all those lackeys around the world who want to overthrow us and want to take away our country, our natural riches, and do not want to let our families and our children live a good future, a future in socialism, a future in revolution, a future with the people," he said. Participants warned that the demonstrations will not stop until Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores are released by the United States and return to Venezuela. Both are currently being held at a federal prison in Brooklyn on alleged charges of narco-terrorism."