(21 Apr 2025)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 21 April 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. People carrying effigy El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in representation of Judas
2. People preparing Bukele effigy, UPSOUND (Spanish) “Fire for Bukele”
3. Various of Bukele effigy burning
4. Children dancing
5. Bukele effigy burning
6. Activist Aldris Sosa addressing crowd, UPSOUND ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ (Spanish) “For messing with Venezuelans. Venezuela is respected here and everywhere. Venezuela is respected and here we are all burning Nayib Bukele, in solidarity with all those comrades who have been run over and their human rights violated.”
7. Sosa addressing crowd
8. People preparing Bukele effigy
9. Sosa addressing crowd, UPSOUND ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ (Spanish) “(Speaking as Bukele) ‘To jail I have put every Venezuelan, violating all their human rights. I have lashed out against them. I have believed many things: brave, thinking it was bravery. It was an act of cowardice, for that I have to pay, because the candle is going to be prepared for me today’.”
++DAY SHOTS++
10. Various of Judas effigy burning, sign in the place of its head showing US President Donald Trump, as well as Venezuelan opposition figures Juan Guaidó, Edmundo González and María Corina Machado
11. Effigy burning
12. People watching effigy burn
STORYLINE:
Venezuelan demonstrators burned an effigy of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, putting him in the place of Judas in a deep-seated Easter Sunday tradition.
Activist Aldris Sosa told the crowd Bukele had been chosen in "solidarity" with Venezuelans whose human rights he had "violated".
In another part of the capital, an effigy depicting US President Donald Trump, as well as Venezuelan opposition figures was also Juan Guaidó, Edmundo González and María Corina Machado was also burned.
El Salvador has come under sharp international scrutiny for accepting Venezuelans and Salvadorans deported by the Trump administration, which accused them of being alleged gang members with little evidence.
Deportees are locked up in a “mega-prison” know as the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), built by the Bukele government during his crackdown on the country’s gangs.
Bukele on Sunday suggested he was willing to exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
Among those listed in a post on the social media platform X were family members of González and Corina Machado.
AP video shot by Andry Rincon
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