Venezuelans protest ‘fraudulent’ election
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
There have been protests across Venezuela against the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro, which the opposition says was fraudulent. Caracas has ordered diplomats from seven Latin American countries to leave because of their refusal to recognise Maduro's official victory.
Also on the programme, the Israeli government has vowed a harsh response to a rocket attack three days ago that killed 12 young people from the Druze community in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights; and, at the Paris Olympics, athletes have expressed frustration after the men's triathlon was postponed by a day because of pollution in the River Seine.
(Photo: A demonstrator reacts when Molotov cocktails hit the ground in front of security forces during protests against election results after Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election, in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela July 29, 2024. REUTERS/Samir Aponte)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live here on the BBC World Service coming to you |
| 0:08.7 | from London. I'm Kruh Barbardi very good to have your company. We start in the South American country of Venezuela. These sounds there of police firing tear gas and rubber bullets at people |
| 0:28.3 | protesting Sunday's disputed election result. Late yesterday thousands of people descended on the capital Karakas and |
| 0:35.8 | marched towards the presidential palace chanting freedom and fraud and they called for the |
| 0:41.6 | government to fall after President Nicholas Maduro claimed victory. |
| 0:45.9 | Mr Maduro has accused his opponents of trying to stage a coup after he was declared the winner |
| 0:51.0 | of Sunday's election, but a growing list of governments around the world, |
| 0:55.4 | as well as Venezuela's opposition say that they don't believe the official declaration. |
| 1:01.2 | Speaking yesterday, the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado |
| 1:05.0 | said that they had evidence that their candidate had won the election. |
| 1:09.0 | This is a miracle. A miracle. Today I want to tell all Venezuelans in the country and |
| 1:17.6 | abroad to all the Democrats of the world. We now have proof of the truth of what happened yesterday in Venezuela. We did it. We did it. |
| 1:27.0 | We did it. |
| 1:28.0 | And these Venezuelans banging pots and pans in process in Caracas voiced their anger. |
| 1:37.0 | As always, the electoral fraud ina. We have no democracy here. The votes were stolen and |
| 1:47.0 | the opposition leader has proof that the opposition won the elections this year. |
| 1:54.0 | We are calling on the international community on countries like |
| 1:58.2 | Colombia and Brazil to make a statement and we are waiting for good decisions from Maria Corina Machado and Edmondo Gonzalez. |
| 2:06.2 | The people are in the streets doing what they should be doing, fighting for their vote, |
| 2:10.1 | protesting. |
| 2:11.1 | We are tired of this crisis, tired of this misery. |
| 2:14.0 | In a speech on Venezuelan state television, |
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