CARACAS, July 31 — Thousands of Venezuelans gathered Tuesday in a peaceful show of opposition support a day after 11 people died and dozens were injured in protests against...
‘I didn’t know it’s an offence’: Singapore man, 53, eats teen’s cigarette to thwart enforcement officers, ends up with S$1,000 fineA musician opposing Venezuela n President Nicolas Maduro takes part in a rally called by presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, in front of the United Nations headquarters in Caracas on July 30, 2024.
The Foro Penal human rights NGO, however, said at least 11 people — two of them minors — have died in what its head Alfredo Romero described as “a crisis of human rights.”Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at protesters who claimed the election was stolen, flooding the streets with chants of “This government is going to fall!”
Attorney General Tarek William Saab said Tuesday that 749 “criminals” had been arrested at protests and faced charge of resisting authority or, “in the most serious cases, terrorism.”On Tuesday, opposition supporters gathered for peaceful rallies in several cities. Long queues formed at stores and supermarkets in Caracas Tuesday as residents stocked up on food, toilet paper and soap in uncertain times.Addressing the opposition crowd in Caracas, retired diplomat Gonzalez Urrutia addressed the security forces, saying: “there is no reason for so much persecution.”
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and counterpart Joe Biden of the United States — both countries hosting large numbers of Venezuelan migrants — held talks Tuesday and called for the CNE to release detailed election results.
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