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VENEZUELAN STREETS FILL WITH PROTESTERS OPPOSING MADURO CLAIM OF ELECTION
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By Deisy Buitrago and Mayela Armas
July 31, 20242:42 AM GMT+2Updated an hour ago
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 * Protests spring up after Maduro proclaimed winner
 * Opposition asserts it won in a landslide
 * Death toll since election up to 11, rights group says
 * Two more opposition leaders detained

CARACAS, July 30 (Reuters) - Protesters took to the streets across Venezuela on
Tuesday, holding marches and waving flags to demand President Nicolas Maduro
acknowledge that he lost Sunday's election to an opposition insisting it
clinched a landslide victory.
The protests, which the government denounced as an attempted "coup," began on
Monday after the South American country's electoral authority declared that
Maduro had won a third term with 51% of votes to extend a quarter-century of
socialist rule.
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The opposition, which considers the election body to be in the pocket of a
dictatorial government, says its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez had more than twice
as many votes as Maduro based on the 90% of vote tallies it has been able to
access.
At least 11 people have been killed in different parts of the country since
Sunday's election in incidents related to the count or associated protests,
rights group Foro Penal said.
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On Tuesday, both Maduro and his top legislative ally accused Gonzalez and
opposition firebrand Maria Corina Machado of fomenting violence in the aftermath
of the vote.
In a winding speech broadcast on state television, Maduro declared that
opposition protesters had battered civilians and started fires, demanding that
Gonzalez answer for them.
"Respond to that you coward!" Maduro shouted, after saying both Gonzalez and
Machado should be held accountable.

Jorge Rodriguez, the head of the Congress for Maduro's ruling socialists, was
more direct in a speech earlier in the day, insisting that both opposition
figures must be arrested for the crimes of the protesters.
"Their bosses should go to prison," he told lawmakers, accusing Gonzalez of
leading a "fascist conspiracy."
Many countries have called on Venezuela to make the vote tally public and U.S.
sources said Washington was considering fresh sanctions on individuals linked to
the election unless there was greater transparency.

Costa Rica said it was prepared to give political asylum to Machado and
Gonzalez. On X, Machado thanked the government but said her priority was to
"continue this struggle" from Venezuela.
The embattled Maduro, who also called for more marches, said in his speech that
his government was reaching out to both China and Russia for help with alleged
attacks on the electoral authority's systems, blaming billionaire Elon Musk for
them without presenting evidence.
Maduro's defense minister, General Vladimir Padrino, declared that there was a
"coup in progress" but insisted that the country's armed forces would help
defeat it.
The 61-year-old president is a former union leader and foreign minister who won
an election after former President Hugo Chavez's death in 2013. Maduro was
re-elected in 2018 in a vote the opposition says was fraudulent.
He has presided over an economic collapse and a mass exodus of Venezuelans,
while U.S. and EU sanctions have crippled an already struggling oil industry.
A Maduro win could spur more migration from Venezuela, once the continent's
wealthiest country, which in recent years has seen a third of its population
leave.
Item 1 of 14 Bolivarian National Guard detain demonstrators as people gather to
protest election results that awarded Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with
a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez
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[1/14]Bolivarian National Guard detain demonstrators as people gather to protest
election results that awarded Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with a third
term, in Caracas, Venezuela July 30, 2024. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
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'FRAUD BY THE REGIME'

Opposition leader Machado was barred from running in the election but
spearheaded Gonzalez's campaign. For the first time on Tuesday she accused
Maduro's government of a corrupt vote count.
"What we are fighting here is a fraud by the regime," Machado said, while urging
peaceful protest.
A large crowd, many waving Venezuelan flags, chanted: "We are not afraid!"
"Edmundo is the president. We know he won the election," said 27-year-old
brokerage worker Andrea Garcia. "We want to live in the Venezuela that our
parents had, where there wasn't hunger in the streets."
But the mechanism open to the opposition appear limited given the military has
shown no sign it will break from its long-standing support for Maduro and
previous cycles of anti-government protests and sanctions have failed to
dislodge him.
Opposition protesters marched in several cities on Tuesday. In some locations
Reuters witnesses saw protesters attacked by security forces. Many stores
remained closed.
In Valencia, a protester spray-painted "fraud" on the road.
At pro-Maduro demonstrations, meanwhile, marchers danced and motorcycle-riding
supporters revved their engines, insisting the election is over.
"We're here to peacefully support an election which has already given its
result," said teacher Carmen Torres, 36, adding that despite some doubts she
preferred Maduro to a "neoliberal" government.
On Monday, protesters had blocked roads, lit fires and threw petrol bombs at
police, and police responded by firing tear gas.
In Coro, capital of Falcon state, on the Caribbean coast west of Caracas,
protesters cheered when they tore down a statue depicting Chavez, Maduro's
mentor who ruled from 1999-2013.
Amid the dueling protests, security agents arrested at least two more opposition
leaders.
Voluntad Popular's national coordinator Freddy Superlano was detained, as was
Ricardo Estevez, a senior official with Vente Venezuela, the parties said in
posts on X.
Many Venezuelans have said any decision they make on whether to join the exodus
from the country would be dependent on the election.
"It feels like I no longer have anything to do here in Venezuela," said
23-year-old graduate Jorge Salcedo in Caracas.
"We'll start from scratch in another country ... We live in a country with
repression, and we live in a country under dictatorship. It was our last
chance."

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Reporting by Vivian Sequera, Deisy Buitrago, Mayela Armas and Julia Symmes Cobb
in Caracas; Additional reporting by Keren Torres in Barquisimeto, Tibisay Romero
in Valencia, Tathiana Ortiz in San Cristobal, Mariela Nava in Maracaibo, Mircely
Guanipa in Maracay and Maria Ramirez in Puerto Ordaz; Writing by Oliver Griffin,
Michael Perry, Andrew Cawthorne and Rosalba O'Brien; Editing by Angus MacSwan,
Chizu Nomiyama and Daniel Wallis

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