Hello and

welcome to Newsower live here on the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you from London.

I'm Groupapardi and it is great to have you with us.

We start in South America where

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has turned up at a

mass rally in Caracas defying government calls for her arrest.

After six days of brutal repression they thought they were going to silence us,

frighten us and stop us. The presence of each one of you here

represents the best of every Venezuelan. It shows the world the magnitude and strength and that

means that we will go all the way.

She went into hiding earlier this week after accusing President Nicolas Maduro of defrauding

the opposition candidate Edmondo Gonzalez of

victory in Sunday's presidential election. Mr Maduro says the opposition has

produced fake evidence to contest the results and it comes as the US Secretary of State

Anthony Blinkin has said that there was overwhelming evidence that Venezuela's

opposition had won the election. Well I've been speaking to one protester at

the rally and he asked us not to share his name.

There was a lot of fear to come today. There has been a lot of violent repression in the last few days.

So it is wonderful that so many people have come out and that we are you know inspired in this.

Give us your reasons for choosing to take to the streets.

We are living in a dictatorship that is trying to destroy Venezuela. We won an election fair and

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