(3 Aug 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela - 3 August 2024
1. Various of Venezuela's opposition leader, María Corina Machado, arriving to rally on top of a truck, greeting supporters
2. Various of Machado holding a Venezuelan flag, greeting supporters
3. Various of Machado giving a speech
4. Wide of rally
5. Woman with Venezuelan flag painted on her face
6. Demonstrators chanting. UPSOUND (Spanish) “Elvis Amoroso (National Electoral Council president) you are a liar”
7. Various of demonstrators chanting. UPSIUND (Spanish) “Maduro, listen, the people despise you”
8. Various of Elizabeth Martinez. 42, housekeeper, marching
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Elizabeth Martinez. 42, housekeeper:
"I am currently at the limit. I can no longer stand the situation of the country and the government, and every day is more difficult. During these years I have wanted to stay in Venezuela, in the struggle, I decided to take my daughter away from his father for 5 years and it has reached the point that sometimes I say, I can't stand it anymore, I want to leave. It's hard for me to leave my mother and my siblings, but I don't want my husband and my daughter to stay away from me. I want to meet my grandchildren.”
10. Various of demonstrators pasting banners on the wall resembling the tallies the opposition obtained at the voting centers as proof that they won the election. On top of the tallies, activists printed pictures of people who died since protests erupted across Venezuela on Monday
11. Venezuelan map made with empty pill blisters
12. Nieves Vazquez, cook, at rally
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nieves Vazquez, cook:
"I believe in Maria Corina, I believe in this process, I believe in the freedom of Venezuela. Today our elections have been stolen. I was a leading worker of a voting center, and in my desk Edmundo won, at my poll. Maduro lost by a landslide. Now, he wants to take out invalid tallies."
11. Various of people at rally
STORYLINE:
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado led a massive demonstration in Caracas on Saturday.
Machado and her allies arrived, greeting supporters from the top of a truck at the site where thousands of demonstrators gathered, cheering her with the chant of "Freedom, freedom."
After last Sunday's controversial presidential elections, the government and the opposition called on Saturday for mobilizations in the Venezuelan capital, raising tensions in the South American country.
President Nicolas Maduro and his opponents proclaimed themselves winners while international pressure grew to find a negotiated solution to the crisis.
In the middle of the electoral dispute, the Supreme Court of Justice asked the electoral body on Friday to record the tally sheets of the polling stations within three days.
The president has blamed the opposition for the protests that broke out earlier this week in the country, which left 11 dead and more than 1,200 arrested, according to non-governmental organizations.
The protests broke out after the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by the ruling party, proclaimed Maduro the winner of the July 28 presidential elections, which the opposition did not recognize.
Meanwhile, Machado gathered opponents in an upper-middle-class neighborhood east of the capital, one of the opposition's strongholds, to celebrate the election of Machado's ally Edmundo Gonzalez.
AP Video shot by Andry Rincon, Lucas Dumphreys and Juan Arraez
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