Venezuela | Overwhelming demonstrations in support of Pres. Maduro
Special envoys in Venezuela, Yunus Soner and Brian Mier, report on the massive mobilizations in support of reelected President Nicolas Maduro, after the far-right called rigged elections and consequent riots of the latest days. teleSUR
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00:00Hi, let's go live with our special envoy in Venezuela, Junos Zunar, who is at the Miraflores
00:09Palace, surrounded by a massive concentration of people who gathered in the capital to support
00:14President-elect Nicolás Maduro.
00:16Hi, Junos.
00:17What are the latest updates at the moment and how is the atmosphere in the capital at
00:22this hour?
00:23Hello, good afternoon.
00:29I hope you can hear me.
00:31I can barely hear you because here's a crowd of thousands of people, plus the music that
00:38you hear in the background.
00:40We are in the front of the presidential palace, the Miraflores Palace.
00:46Thousands of people have gathered here to celebrate again the victory of Nicolás Maduro.
00:53Despite an incredible rain that lasted here in Caracas for an hour or so, everyone got
01:01wet to the last drop of their body, but they stood there and now they are here at the presidential
01:06palace.
01:07Let's ask them how they feel.
01:08How do you feel?
01:09I'm very happy.
01:10I'm very happy of being here, demonstrating to the people of Venezuela that we have peace,
01:21that we have peace, and we have the guarantee that these people is very happy.
01:31We're tranquil.
01:32We're calm.
01:33We're in peace to have won a clean elections without any fraud, with the quantity of votes
01:41that we took ourselves, the chief of the streets, the OVH, the communities, the social movements,
01:49the political parties, everybody in unity, in only one voice.
01:56How do you see the path of Venezuela from now on?
02:00What do you expect?
02:01Well, it's not new.
02:04It has to be the same president, it's the same president, but we just elected him because
02:11he guaranteed peace to us, because he guaranteed the unity, because he also guarantees a better
02:18future.
02:19With the person of the opposition, we don't want anything, with the opposition, we don't
02:25want anything really with people that are, they don't want Venezuela.
02:32What they used yesterday, they used our youth of fodder and they keep calling for violence
02:38and we don't want that, violence zero, everything with Nicolás.
02:42So we hear that she says she has voted for peace and peace is there, tranquility is there,
02:52stability is there.
02:53So that's the path ahead of Venezuela, says our interview partner.
02:57Let's ask another person, please.
03:02Your name, please.
03:03I'm a young Venezuelan here supporting democracy, supporting the people and on the 28th of
03:14July came out to defend his democracy and his sovereignty because the people is conscious
03:19and because we cannot believe in those false positives that are on their social network.
03:25The reality of Venezuela is another.
03:27The reality in our homeland is different from what they want to show in all the media of
03:32the world.
03:33We invite you to come and see the televisions, the two televisions, the televisions that
03:39are showing really what is happening in our country.
03:42In our country, we are breathing peace and we don't want to go back because we have lived
03:47very, very difficult problems because of the marimba.
03:50We lived very difficult situations and today the people of Venezuela realize that we don't
03:54want any more marimba, we want peace.
03:56We are in the streets now, I just toured a great part of these caracas where they are
04:01showing that there's a different disturbances and the reality is another one.
04:05I saw a people that have understood that the country is forward, the country is on the
04:12street.
04:13The people is not, the people realize that President Maduro won as he should.
04:18And secondly, because the Venezuelan people at the present time, thanks to our president,
04:25is not passing any needs.
04:27We are a people who is here, thanks to our president, is stable.
04:33We have already our products, the salaries are much better.
04:36Venezuela today produce 96% of what we eat in our country and this is thanks to Nicolás
04:43Maduro.
04:44And that's why we form as communist young people, they're trying to give false information
04:51and a political party, a communist party that is supporting Maduro.
04:55The communists, we have come out at the national level to tell to the world that the communists
05:00in all our country, 93 states and the strategic capital, we are supporting Maduro and we're
05:06not going to allow that no imperialist government comes here.
05:10Because above all, President Maduro is anti-imperialist, is a man of people, is a worker and we have
05:16seen that today he has guaranteed people and that's what Venezuela wants, more peace, more
05:20peace and to keep growing.
05:22And as he said, we're going upward.
05:26As you see, here's an applause for our translator, this is a really hard job translating simultaneously
05:34and as you see, people are very excited, they are very optimistic and the last person we
05:40interviewed made a great emphasis on the effect of social media, he criticized that social
05:47media is provoking hatred here and he emphasized that Venezuela will never, never again permit,
05:55allow any imperialist domination of the country.
06:00So excited feelings here in the presidential palace, people are expecting the arrival of
06:06President Nicolás Maduro, which we have not yet confirmed but it's possible, so we will
06:13be here also waiting for you, for the President and report from here for Tele2 English.
06:19Thank you Yunus for all the information you bring to us in first hand from the capital
06:23Caracas.
06:24We will keep in contact and we were listening to our special envoy in Venezuela, Yunus Zunar,
06:28who is at the Miraflores Palace, surrounded by a massive concentration of people.
06:33And in this context, we stay in Caracas.
06:36Let's see now more details of the mobilization that is taking place in the capital with other
06:42special envoy Brian Meyer.
06:44Hi Brian.
06:45I'm in the neighborhood of Catia on the periphery of Caracas, Venezuela, on Sucre Plaza, where
06:53thousands of people have come out to show their support for Nicolás Maduro and show
06:58their respect for the democratic rule of law and the National Electoral Council, which
07:04declared Nicolás Maduro winner of the 2024 presidential elections around midnight on
07:10Sunday night.
07:12Since then, small groups of Maria Corina Machado backed far right demonstrators and vandals
07:19have committed acts of violence across the country of Venezuela.
07:24They burnt down a public school.
07:26They burnt community gardens.
07:28They burnt a community center.
07:30They've been ripping down Maduro flags, lighting cars on fire, and also followed around by
07:36an army of right-wing streamers and social media activists staging these events to try
07:44and give an impression that the majority of the Venezuelan people are against Nicolás
07:50Maduro and don't accept the results of the election.
07:52We know that the far right has been financed by the U.S. government.
07:57There's a kind of attempted color revolution or coup underway.
08:02But today, the head of the armed forces said that they're doing their best to keep the
08:09peace and it looks like in many places across the country those acts of vandalism are diminishing.
08:15Meanwhile, the opposition has staged a protest in downtown Caracas, but all across the city
08:21protests like this are happening in the neighborhoods as thousands of people come out in support
08:27of the government and the democratic rule of law.
08:31Thank you, Brian, for all the information as well.
08:34We were listening to our special envoy in Venezuela, Brian Meyer, with the latest information
08:38on the march called by the government of Venezuela to celebrate victory, preserve peace, and
08:43face the wave of destabilizations that the far right wing is imposing.
08:47This is all for the moment.
08:48Stay tuned with From the South.