(17 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 17 June 2024
1. Banner with logo of opposition’s campaign led by Maria Corina Machado
2. Various of opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González arriving for news conference
3. Machado arriving
4. Machado speaking
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader:
"Today, two young men who were at these headquarters working on campaign activities, went out nearby to buy something for lunch and were intercepted, detained, and taken to the Helicoid (Bolivarian Intelligence Service prison). They are Gabriel González and Javier Cisneros."
6. Journalists during news conference
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader:
"This is what is happening today in Venezuela, this is how this process is being carried out. I want the world to understand what this huge alliance and the Venezuelan society are doing to ensure that we move forward towards an electoral process, when on July 28, Venezuelans can freely elect the person who today represents the option for change, Edmundo Gonzalez. But we are doing this in conditions that are absolutely contrary, not only to the Barbados Agreement, but to any standard of an electoral competition. It is simply not enough with communiqués or complaints. We want the world to be here, accompanying us."
8. Various of Machado at end of news conference
9. Close of Machado campaign slogan reading (Spanish) "Until the end"
10. Machado hugging woman as she leaves news conference
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s opposition leadership denounced the detaining of two of its campaign workers on Monday.
María Corina Machado, who leads the opposition after being barred from running as a presidential candidate, said Gabriel González and Javier Cisneros were detained by government officials and taken to the Bolivarian Intelligence Service headquarters, which also serves as a prison known as Helicoid.
Machado was joined by presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez
Shortly after the announcement, one of the detainees, Javier Cisneros, was released, her Vente Venezuela party announced on social platform X.
A total of five people had been detained since Friday, according to the opposition. Gonzalez had already denounced Saturday the detaining of three other political leaders Friday.
According to non-governmental organisations, more than a dozen leaders of the opposition political party Vente Venezuela have been arrested on charges of being part of conspiracy plots and violent acts, while six members of the opposition remain refugees in the Argentine embassy in Caracas.
AP video shot by Juan Arraez
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