After President Trump invaded Venezuela and deposed President Nicolás Maduro Friday night, the Bay Area reacted fast, as protests took over both San Francisco and San Jose by Saturday afternoon.The big international news this weekend was Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and capture of Venezue lan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Friday night. The whole canard is being sold as fighting narcoterrorism, but Trump pretty much gave away the game Saturday when he said, "We're going to have our very large U.S. oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money."Needless to say, by Saturday, protests were breaking out across the Bay Area.A massive crowd in San Francisco has taken the streets to oppose Trump's war drive against Venezuela –– the people demand money for people's needs, not the war machine!Join the anti-war movement ➡️ https://t.co/spyw9DXvpb pic.twitter.com/W9NSipvPbW— Party for Socialism and Liberation (@pslnational) January 3, 2026 Mission Local reports that about 400 protesters took to Market Street in SF on Saturday, and made their way to the Civic Center statue of renowned South American revolutionary Simón Bolívar. “No more coups, no more wars, Latin America isn’t yours!,” protesters reportedly chanted at the San Francisco rally. Meanwhile in San Jose, KPIX reports there was also a protest of the Venezuelan invasion in that city.NOW IN SAN FRANCISCO: Hundreds are rallying against the Trump administration's illegal military aggression towards Venezuela. More than 80 cities have mobilized across the country to oppose a new war. pic.twitter.com/Tkhyn2ji4G— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) January 3, 2026 An estimated 80 Venezuelans were killed in Friday night's invasion. “We saw them destroy the very fundamental rights that all Latin American countries and all countries of the world share,” Palestinian Youth Movement member Omar Khoury said in a speech, per Mission Local. International law experts generally agree that Trump's invasion was illegal.🇻🇪 NOW: San Francisco rallies against US aggression on Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/PD8MRrTZZF— CODEPINK (@codepink) January 3, 2026 Though one thing you may not have seen much at SF's Saturday protest of the Venezuelan invasion was, well, Venezuelans. Mission Local spoke to one unidentified Venezuelan protester, and reports "She went to the rally today after hearing about it, hoping to see other Venezuelan people, but relatively few were there and none spoke at the rally." “I was like, I want to see my people and hug them, and I want to tell them everything is going to be okay,” that woman told Mission Local. “Then I encounter these people that are a little fed with lies also.” (The speakers were often sympathetic to the deposed dictator Maduro.)The protest aggregator site IndyBay does not list any additional upcoming protests this week on the military action in Venezuela, though they do have a bunch more photos from Saturday's SF protests. Related: Hundreds Rally In SF to Protest Trump’s Bomb Strikes on Iran [SFist]Image: CoffeeStax via Reddit ...read more read less