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.