Скачать или смотреть Thousands gather in the streets of Caracas as opposition campaign comes to a close

(26 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela - 25 July 2024
1. Wide of opposition campaign closer rally
2. People watching rally from a balcony
3. Wide of opposition supporters
4. Various of Krisbelis Morales, 39, with face painted with the colours of the Venezuelan flag
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Krisbelis Morales, 39, opposition supporter:
“I can't live, I can't take my children out for a walk because my salary is not enough. I just came back from Colombia and I came to fight because I want a change”
6. Activists of LGBT community chanting slogans. UPSOUND (Spanish) "The streets are of the people not of the dictatorship"
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andres Viana, 42, engineer:
"We have had 25 years with a government that has not allowed us to see another way, another way. A generation that was left with only one vision and we have to change that, we have to have the right to choose freely what is the best option for us Venezuelans”.
8. Andres Viana, 42, waving LGBT flag

STORYLINE:
With mobilizations and rallies from one end of the Venezuelan capital to the other, supporters of the ruling party and the opposition came out in force on Thursday.

It marks the closing of the electoral campaign for Sunday's elections in which President Nicolás Maduro is running for reelection for a third term.

The campaign was dominated in the previous weeks by polarization and tension. President Maduro has said a victory of the opposition bloc, led by María Corina Machado with the candidacy of Edmundo González, could unleash a “bloodbath” in the country.

Since the beginning of the day, the government installed platforms in several points of Caracas to receive thousands of Maduro's followers and public employees, coming from different parts of the country, who traveled to the capital to participate in the closing of the campaign.

AP Video by Juan Arraez and Brayan Antequero

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