(30 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 29 July 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of police vehicles driving away from the Argentine embassy Caracas
2. Various of opposition supporters arriving at embassy on motorbikes
3. Sign outside Argentina’s embassy
4. Argentinian flag
5. Supporters greeting members of the opposition Vente Venezuela party, sheltering at embassy
6. Various of opposition members at window
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Omar Gonzalez, member of Vente Venezuela:
"Maduro’s henchmen (arrived). Today we have been the victims again of a siege by heavily armed and hooded agents."
8. People outside embassy
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Magaly Meda, opposition’s campaign chief:
"Above all, keep peace. We are not violent, but we are not fools either."
10. Motorbikes outside embassy
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Magaly Meda, opposition’s campaign chief:
"An election was held that has been the largest election in the history of Venezuela. We have never voted so many for one person. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia was elected by all Venezuelans and that day María Corina told the country, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won and today she ratified that triumph with the minutes in her hand."
12. Motorbikes leaving embassy
STORYLINE:
A group of supporters of the Venezuelan opposition rallied on Monday outside the Argentine embassy.
The rally came after opposition leader María Corina Machado said members of the Venezuelan security forces were stationed outside the embassy, where opposition staff, including of Machado’s campaign manager, have sheltered for months after authorities issued arrest warrants against them.
She told reporters she feared that they might raid the premises and arrest the six opponents.
"Today we have been the victims again of a siege by heavily armed and hooded agents," Omar Gonzalez, a member of the opposition "Vente Venezuela" party told the supporters from the window of the embassy on Monday night.
As thousands of people demonstrated across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González on Monday announced that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election whose victory electoral authorities handed to President Nicolás Maduro.
The announcement came after the National Electoral Council, which is loyal to Maduro’s ruling Unites Socialist Party of Venezuela, officially declared him the winner, handing him his third six-year term.
In response to criticism from other governments over the disputed election, Maduro’s foreign affairs ministry announced it would recall its diplomatic personnel from seven countries in the Americas, including Panama, Argentina and Chile.
Foreign Minister Yvan Gil asked the governments of those countries to do the same with their personnel in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan government did not clarify on whether it would let the opposition members sheltered in the Argentine embassy leave the country when the diplomatic personnel leave
AP video shot by: Juan Arraez
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