(18 Aug 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 17 August 2024
1. Various fo government supporters marching
2. Various of Venezuela’s president greeting supporters at rally
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela:
"Where is the coward Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. Why is he hiding and not showing his face?"
4. Maduro speaking
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela:
“We are facing evil, facist people. You understand well what fascism is. It is hatred, intolerance turned into violence. If we had not defeated them, on Monday the 29th, Tuesday the 30th, they would have killed more than one of you. That is why I support with all my strength what the people are doing with the National Assembly and I ask that the law against facsism, neo-fascism and hate crimes be passed very quickly."
6. Government supporters
7. Maduro kissing his wife Cilia Flores
8. Various of Maduro greeting supporters and dancing as rally finishes
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s ruling party gathered a large crowd on Saturday at a rally in Caracas.
The government called its supporters to pack the square in front of the presidential palace in Caracas under the "march for peace" motto.
President Nicolás Maduro, surrounded by members of his cabinet and his wife Cilia Flores, lashed out at opposition candidate Edmundo González, who was not present today at the opposition demonstrations in Caracas.
"Where is the coward Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia? Why is he hiding and not showing his face?"
Maduro’s call came together with a heated day of protests by opposition leader Maria Corina Machado that were replicated in several cities worldwide, topped by the Venezuelan diaspora.
The core of the opposition’s protest is based on the result of the July 28 presidential elections, alleging that candidate Edmundo González defeated President Maduro.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, whose members are loyal to the ruling party, declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 election hours after polls closed.
Unlike previous presidential elections, the electoral body has not released the tally sheets’ detailed voting data to back up its claim that Maduro earned 6.4 million votes while González, who represented the Unitary Platform opposition coalition, garnered 5.3 million.
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