Venezuela: People spontaneously mobilize to wait for results

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Our special envoy in Venezuela, Yunus Soner reports on what is happening on the streets in the run-up to the election results.  These and more stories now! Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en Join teleSUR's community and be part of a space where your ideas matter.  https://chat.whatsapp.com/KLABTE41aSj3ioYabXQQ6K  Don't be left behind, join teleSUR's Channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va98Z437Noa2tjytCt1N Web https://www.telesurenglish.net/ X https://twitter.com/telesurenglish Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/telesurenglish/?hl=es Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/teleSUREnglishOfficial Youtube ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmuTmpLY35O3csvhyA6vrkg Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@telesurenglish?_t=8hMLCY0a6z7&_r=1

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00:00Welcome back once again to Venezuela The Sites 2024.

00:12In this case, we welcome once again our special envoy Yunus Soner from Caracas.

00:18Yunus, can you hear us? It's a pleasure to have you with us.

00:21Again, tell us where you are, what's going on over there.

00:28Thank you. Good evening from Caracas. It's a pleasure to be here again.

00:33And right now, I'm very close to the presidential palace, the Palacio Miraflores,

00:39where people have started to gather to come together after Jorge Rodriguez,

00:47the chief of campaign of Nicolas Maduro, had stated in a press conference

00:52that once the National Electoral Council announces the results,

00:58he said, you know where we will come together, and you know who will be there.

01:04So right now I have one of these persons on my side, and let's ask her why she's here.

01:11Good evening. What's your name?

01:14Hi, my name is Betsabeda Carrasquel.

01:17Why are you here?

01:19Because I love my country, and because of the love to my country,

01:23I defend this vision that was told to us by our commander, who was Rafael Chavez Frias,

01:31but before that was Simon Bolivar, and way before that, Jesus Christ.

01:36And that's why I'm here for, defending my country, defending my homeland with love

01:42and with a lot of vision for our children and teenagers.

01:50What are you seeing? What is the threat that you see for the country?

01:54What is the concrete threat that you're defending the country from?

01:59Today, one more time, the people went out to exercise their right to vote,

02:05a right that we have things to the liberators, because Venezuela is the homeland of liberators,

02:13women and men that understand the times.

02:17Venezuela is threatened for those that they have hatred in their hearts.

02:21Venezuela is threatened by the ones that don't understand that this country is the country

02:27that is the most beautiful, most prosperous and rich in the world.

02:32And with these elections, and today in the balcony of the people,

02:36we are the Venezuelans with a conviction and with love to the homeland.

02:41Thank you.

02:42So, she said briefly that she's defending her country against hatred.

02:48And we see in the background here, if the cameraman follows me, there's a bright light here,

02:55and the presidential palace is over there.

02:58Here, people are already gathering.

03:02And...

03:05Good evening.

03:06Good evening.

03:13Why are you here?

03:15Today, now we're here in the Miraflores palace because of the ultra-riot.

03:20It threatened the power and it threatened to the president Nicolás Maduro.

03:24Today, in these democratic elections, we're held and that proves that they know that they're lost.

03:30And they're in the social networks and generating that they're going to come for the Miraflores palace.

03:37But we defend Chávez, we defend Nicolás Maduro and we're here in the center of power taking care of it.

03:43And if the National Electoral Council declares that the opposition won, what would you do?

03:50Well, if the National Electoral Council gives this declaration, us as revolutionaries, we will respect it

03:57because President Chávez taught us how to respect the result.

04:01And that doesn't mean that the revolution will end.

04:05Quite the opposite, we'll be threatened because sometimes you fall and sometimes you go up.

04:11Thank you very much.

04:12He's very sure that Nicolás Maduro has won the victory.

04:18But I asked him what he would do if the National Electoral Council declared the opposition, the opposition candidate, a winner.

04:27He said, we would respect that. This is what we learned from Hugo Chávez.

04:31We would respect that result and we would get stronger even afterwards.

04:36But that's an important point.

04:38So this is a self-confident position, but it is a position that respects the institutionality here in Venezuela.

04:48Something which is difficult to say of those oppositional candidates who, ahead of the elections,

04:54have rejected to sign the according agreement in front of the National Electoral Council.

05:01Once again, Eunice, it's great hearing from you.

05:04It's great knowing what is happening now in the streets of Caracas

05:08and also all the important key elements that you were saying and highlighting with the guests there in the streets

05:16and how important it is to understand the celebration that is taking place in the streets,

05:21the celebration of democracy, the willingness and the knowing that everyone there in the streets

05:28is waiting for the results and the announcement of the National Electoral Council

05:34and of course going to respect them and that is what we are awaiting for.

05:39Thank you, Eunice.

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