(6 Jul 2024)
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Barinas, Venezuela – 6 July 2024
1. People holding Venezuelan flags and banners during opposition rally
2. Various of opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez arriving at rally on truck, accompanied by his wife and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado
3. Machado greeting people
4. Sign reading (Spanish) "Maria Corina I love you"
5. Crowd cheering as Machado looks on from stage
6. Several rosaries hanging off Machado’s neck, people usually gift her rosaries and she wears them
7. People chanting UPSOUND (Spanish): "And it will fall! It will fall! This government will fall!"
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader:
"Today, we understand that in just 22 days, we have that key for the future we have fought so hard for."
9. Various of González on stage greeting people
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Edmundo González, opposition presidential candidate: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"Lets turn that desire of change into votes. I count on you and you count on me. Thank you!"
11. Machado and Gonzalez hugging
12. Machado and Gonzalez holding their hands in the air
13. Crowd moving
14. Various of sign on building reading (Spanish) "If Barinas could do it, Venezuela can too"
15. Israel Palacios, producer, on horse
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Israel Palacios, producer:
"It’s not just them, it’s whoever comes. We have had 25 years of living a disgrace. Whoever comes, is welcome to bring new ideas, a coherent economic policy, and a coherent policy of peace. We have never had that. This has all been a disaster. We all know that the economic policy of the government has been simply to improvise and that has never led us anywhere. And we are going to continue with the same thing?"
17. Sign with a drawing of Machado
18. Mid of car during rally
19. Women jumping and chanting
20. People holding sign reading (Spanish) "For my future, I vote for Edmundo"
21. Woman holding sign reading (Spanish) "I want my dad to come back"
STORYLINE:
Two days into Venezuela’s election campaign for the July 28 presidential vote, opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez arrived Saturday in Barinas, a western state once considered a stronghold of the government, where he led a massive rally.
The 74-year-old former diplomat, led a caravan that travelled through the central streets of that city with opposition leader María Corina Machado, whom he replaced in the presidential race after she received a government ban on her running for office.
From a stage and after emphasizing that he represents the option for change in Venezuela, the opposition candidate told his supporters to "turn that desire of change into votes. I count on you and you count on me."
Machado told supporters that they have already defeated their opponents.
"Today, we understand that in just 22 days, we have that key for the future we have fought so hard for," she said.
Barinas is the home state of the late President Hugo Chavez, Maduro’s mentor, and an impregnable bastion of the ruling party for more than two decades.
But over time, the support of Barinas residents for the ruling party has diminished, according to analysts. In 2022, the residents of that region elected opposition candidate Sergio Garrido as governor.
AP video shot by: Juan Arraez
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