(30 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 29 July 2024
1. Various of clashes between police and demonstrators in downtown Caracas, few blocks away from the presidential palace UPSOUND explosions, shots as police deploy tear gas and protesters throw objects
2. Police firing rifles
3. Various of demonstrators hiding behind overturned van and holding makeshift shields as they throw objects towards police
4. Various of demonstrator burning banner with campaign propaganda of president Nicolás Maduro
5. Various of demonstrators on motorbikes, Maduro campaign banner in the background
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Raúl Gonzalez, 46, demonstrator:
"We just one (official), only one who can be serious and say the truth. This is why we are on the highway, because we clearly won. That’s clear."
7. Demonstrator waving Venezuelan flag
8. Various of demonstrators on motorbikes as police block street
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Edward (no last name given), 27, demonstrator
"We are tired of Maduro, we are tired of being whipped. Petare (neighborhood) came down, Maduro! Petare came down for you."
10. Various of motorbikes, people watching
11. Various of Hemgerly Serrano, 23, cheering as motorbikes drive past
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hemgerly Serrano, 23, demonstrator ++CONTAINS EXPLETIVES++
“Yes, we are tired. I have 23 years living under the same government, and it has always been the same: shit, and more shit to keep rolling in shit. No, that’s enough, I want a future for my daughter. I have not been able to study. I got out of high school and I could not go to college because I had to work.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anzoategui, Venezuela – 29 July 2024
13. Wide of people running and on bikes, smoke rises in the background
14. Woman holding Venezuela flag
15. Woman holding banner that reads (Spanish): "Free Venezuela. I don’t want to migrate again"
16. Various of people marching, holding flags and banners as they chant slogans UPSOUND (Spanish) This government will fall!"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 29 July 2024
17. Various of riot police firing tear gas, as objects are thrown at them
18. Various of SUV driving past with the word "Fraud" written on the windows
STORYLINE:
Thousands took the streets across Venezuela on Monday to protest a disputed election whose victory electoral authorities handed to President Nicolás Maduro.
The nation was facing a political standstill after both, the incumbent Maduro and the country’s main opposition coalition claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election.
Maduro considers the results of the election a settled matter. But opposition candidate Edmundo González told a news conference Monday afternoon that his campaign has the proof it needs to show that he was the winner of the election.
González and opposition leader María Corina Machado told supporters gathered outside his campaign headquarters in Caracas that they have obtained more than 70% of the tally sheets from Sunday’s disputed election, and they show González ahead of Maduro.
The National Electoral Council, which is loyal to the ruling party, said Maduro secured 51% of the vote while González garnered 44%.
The electoral body, however, did not release the tallies from any machine, promising early Monday only to do so in the “coming hours,” hampering the ability to verify the results.
In the capital, the protests were mostly peaceful, but when dozens of riot gear-clad national police officers blocked the caravan, a brawl broke.
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