Venezuela unrest: can Nicolas Maduro hold onto power?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Despite fraud claims and international condemnation, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro remains defiant, a month after a disputed election. He has ramped up repression, arresting thousands, including journalists and activists. Will Maduro withstand the wave of opposition, or will this be a moment of change?
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- Anneke Ball (@annekeball), Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, and Khaled Soltan, with Duha Mosaad, Shraddha Joshi, Hagir Saleh, Philip Lanos, Hisham Abu Salah, and our host Malika Bilal.
Special thanks to Dana Ballout, Angelique Molina, and Yousef Abdel Nabi.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, a crackdown on dissent in Venezuela. |
| 0:15.0 | The government says those who do not recognize the results could face up to six years in prison. |
| 0:21.6 | But many did not seem to care. |
| 0:24.6 | With President Nicolas Maduro defiant and the opposition rallying support, |
| 0:29.3 | what's next for Venezuela's post-election standoff? |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Malika Bilal and this is the take. |
| 0:52.3 | Thank you. I'm Malika Bilal and this is The Take. People are trying their best to go about their daily lives, getting ready for the new school year and going to work. But at the same time, there is widespread fear. |
| 0:57.8 | My name is Anakee Bol. I'm a reporter. I'm based in New York, and I was born and raised in |
| 1:02.8 | Caracas, Venezuela. Welcome to the take, Anakee. It's really good to have you. A lot has happened |
| 1:08.5 | when it comes to news out of Venezuela over the past month plus, |
| 1:13.2 | and that's all following the disputed election in which President Nicholas Maduro has claimed |
| 1:18.1 | victory. We're speaking on Monday, and we've just heard breaking news that the U.S. has seized |
| 1:24.3 | President Maduro's plane. What do we know about that and how big of a deal is that? |
| 1:30.6 | Well, this is Venezuela's version of Air Force One, so it's bound to raise tensions between the |
| 1:36.3 | Maduro regime and the U.S. government. It seems that its acquisition was in violation of U.S. |
| 1:43.1 | sanctions, and that's why the U.S. government was |
| 1:45.9 | able to cease it. I think it also shows how no one is above the law. |
| 1:52.3 | This just points to the pressure that's mounting on Nicholas Maduro following that July 28th |
| 1:58.5 | election. So, Anika, you are outside the country, but I know that you have been |
| 2:02.5 | covering the news closely on your Instagram broadcast channel. So you know that in the past month, |
| 2:08.5 | there have been reports of all kinds of repression since that election from the government |
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