(24 Aug 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 23 August 2024
1. Wide of the Public Prosecutor’s Office
2. Various of Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s Attorney General, arriving for news briefing
3. Various of Saab at podium
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Tarek William Saab, attorney general of Venezuela:
“I want to announce that in the next hours, the citizen Edmundo González Urrutia will be summoned by this attorney’s office for him to give a statement on the authorship -he has already declared himself as responsible- of this website that has usurped the powers that only correspond to the electoral authority.”
6. Supporters of the ruling party marching
7. Delcy Rodriguez, Vice President of Venezuela, on stage
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President of Venezuela:
“They are responsible and they have to pay in front of justice, because they attacked our national guard officers, our Bolivarian national police, our state and municipal police, they went straight to attack them, to assassinate them. They have to pay. If you are so brave and feel supported by the United States, come out, show your faces, and face justice as it corresponds.”
9. Various supporters of the ruling party marching
10. Wide of the rally
STORYLINE:
Venezuela’s government said Friday it will order former opposition candidate Edmundo González to provide sworn testimony in an ongoing investigation into what it considers attempts to spread panic in the South American country by contesting the results of last month’s presidential election.
It’s the latest attempt by Nicolas Maduro’s government to crack down on opponents who claim they handily defeated the self-declared socialist leader.
Maduro has refused to recognize defeat and claims he won the July 28 election by more than 1 million votes, even though tally sheets by González’s campaign and published online show the president lost by a more than 2-to-1 margin.
The U.S., United Nations and others said the vote lacked credibility and even some of Maduro’s leftist allies in Latin America have called on him to publish the voting records.
González went into hiding after the July 28 vote as security forces have rounded up more than 2,000 demonstrators and political activists for challenging the official results. He’s been joined underground by opposition leader María Corina Machado, who picked González as a last minute stand-in after her own candidacy was disqualified.
Ruling party stalwarts have called for González and Machado’s arrest but so far authorities have held off.
The Biden administration on Friday condemned a ruling by Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifying Maduro’s win.
The high court on Thursday said it had performed an audit of the results and found they matched the results announced by electoral authorities, adding that the tally sheets published online by the opposition were forged.
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