(14 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 14 December 2024
1. Zoom conference with members of Venezuela’s political opposition who have been sheltering for months in the Argentine diplomatic compound in Caracas
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Magaly Meda, opposition’s campaign chief:
"We are about to have three weeks without electricity; anyone without power can have a hard time with electronic appliances and all that, but remember, we cannot leave this place. We have been locked up here for nine months. We cannot go out to get water, medicine, or electricity somewhere. So this has been very tiring, especially at nights when they happen to show up armed and hooded, making noise, giving a feeling that they might come in"
3. Zoom conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Magaly Meda, opposition’s campaign chief:
"We are alone here. The personnel that work in this embassy are no longer here; they are on collective vacation. Obviously, this is complicated to tell; today, one of them is in jail. He was taken at 5 pm on Friday, and so far, we don’t even know where he is."
5. Zoom conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pedro Urruchurtu, opposition campaign worker:
"Assylums in Latin America have been very powerful and important in protecting the dissent. So, we ask Brazil to have a much greater sense of urgency. In this sense, it means doubling efforts and coordination with the region and understanding that this situation can clearly get worse and therefore demands the attention of the entire region."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Caracas, Venezuela – 29 July 2024
7. Various of opposition supporters arriving at the embassy on motorbikes
8. Sign outside Argentina’s embassy
9. Argentine flag
10. Supporters greeting members of the opposition Vente Venezuela party, sheltering at embassy
11. Various of opposition members at a window
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Caracas, Venezuela – 1 August 2024
12. Various of Brazilian flag hanging outside the Argentine Embassy, sign
STORYLINE:
Members of Venezuela’s political opposition who have been sheltering for months in the Argentine diplomatic compound in the capital, Caracas, on Saturday detailed their deteriorating living conditions as they sought to grow a sense of urgency among the governments working to secure their safe departure from their home country.
Their comments to reporters via an online news conference came three days after Argentina’s government urged the Organization of American States to pressure Venezuela to allow the safe passage of the six opposition members living at the ambassador’s residence.
The harassment, according to those who spoke to reporters, includes constant surveillance by heavily armed security agents, the interruption of water and electric services, and this week’s arrest of a longtime local employee of the Argentine embassy.
In August, President Javier Milei’s government transferred custody of the diplomatic compound in Caracas to Brazil after Venezuela expelled Argentina’s diplomats.
The move followed a July presidential election marred by serious fraud allegations, which both President Nicolás Maduro and the opposition claim to have won.
But Maduro revoked Brazil’s authorization to guard the facility in September, even though that nation’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had attempted to help Venezuela break its political stalemate following the presidential vote.
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