Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado led the march in Caracas (REUTERS/Gaby Oraa)
Thousands of Venezuelan opponents mobilized this Saturday in the main cities of the country, In defense of “the truth” of the presidential elections of July 28in which the largest opposition coalition claims that its standard-bearer won, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiadespite the result expressed by the Chavista National Electoral Council (CNE) that gave victory to the dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Maria Corina Machado holds a list of minutes during the mobilization in the Venezuelan capital (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
In Caracas, protesters began arriving at the meeting point well in advance of the scheduled time, Carrying flags, banners and copies of voting recordsas requested by opposition leader María Corina Machado through social media since last Tuesday, the day the call was launched.
The caravan carrying María Corina Machado moves through the crowd (REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno)Thousands of Venezuelans marched despite threats from the Chavista regime (REUTERS/Maxwell Briceno)A woman holds up the Venezuelan flag during a protest against fraud in Caracas (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
Thousands of people also took to the streets in the country’s main cities.in response to the request of Machado and González Urrutia, who urged Venezuelans to attend accompanied by their families, with the national flag and the certificates, which – according to the anti-Chavez movement – support their victory in the presidential elections.
The caravan had to advance through a sea of people (REUTERS/Gaby Oraa)Opposition leader María Corina Machado returned incognito, hooded, to the demonstration on Saturday (AP/Ariana Cubillos)
Copies of the minutes have become a symbol of the largest opposition coalitionas he claims to have gathered “83.5%” of these documents which – he insists – prove González Urrutia’s victory.
“Free Venezuela. No more repression,” reads a protester’s sign (EFE/Carlos Ortega) A man displays electoral records and demands that society’s vote be respected (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
Abroad, Protests were called in more than 350 cities around the worldboth in America and in the rest of the continents, where protesters displayed signs to demand the freedom of those arrested, including the journalist and member of the national communications team of the Vente Venezuela party, Gabriel González, who has been in prison for two months.
The electoral minutes became a symbol of the opposition to defeat the fraud by Chavez (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)Hundreds of Venezuelans marched towards the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City (REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha)A Venezuelan woman waves her country’s flag in the Mexican capital (REUTERS/Quetzalli Nicte-Ha)”Free Venezuela; until the end,” demand Venezuelan protesters in Dublin, Ireland (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)Thousands of Venezuelans gathered at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid (REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)The demonstration in Madrid was the largest in Spain during the world day of protests (REUTERS/Isabel Infantes)Hundreds of Venezuelans also marched in Bogotá, Colombia (EFE/Carlos Ortega)
