No queda claro qué ocurrió con la líder de la oposición. Se espera que en breve cuente su versión de los hechos.
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00:00It's all very confusing, the information that comes here. Natalia Rolando Graña is talking to you. How are you doing?
00:07Hello, good evening, dear friends. Well, yes, indeed, we are confused not only in the world, but in Venezuela itself.
00:15The information is very confusing because what we can really talk about is what is seen.
00:21I could not, to be sure, tell you something that is not really proven, not even by Maria Corina Machado.
00:28Why do I say this? Because the video that is circulating on social networks, where she shows words,
00:35where she says that she is fine, that she was neither arrested, nor kidnapped, nor persecuted, or absolutely nothing like that.
00:43That video is not very clear for some people. They put it in doubt.
00:48In fact, so much so that they have come to say that it could be even artificial intelligence.
00:53Because this video has not really been made official, as such, in their official accounts.
00:58So, what really, for those of us who know the strongest leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Maria Corina,
01:04the ideal is that she can inform in an official way on her social network accounts.
01:09Yes, in fact, it does not seem the same person, the same person who is speaking so vehemently.
01:16The speech does not seem the same as it is almost without a voice, speaking in a hooded voice.
01:21And why is she hooded? It is not understood much.
01:25What is true is that the first video we saw before, and that is confirmed by photographs,
01:30is Maria Corina with a black helmet, black jacket, with the hood up,
01:36and forced to walk with subjects in the same way, hooded.
01:43So, so far we do not really know where and what happened with Maria Corina Machado.
01:49We will wait for her to officially tell us, so that we can believe that she is really okay.
01:55It is our desire, not only as Venezuelans.
01:59You don't even think she is free, because the version circulated that she had been released.
02:09I would like to be able to give you, seriously, I swear to God,
02:12that I would love to be able to give you official information,
02:15but at the moment everything can be fake news, everything is rumor and rumor is not news.
02:22Let's wait for tonight to see if Maria Corina herself manifests herself
02:27and can say in a concrete way if she is okay or not.
02:30From the government of Nicolás Maduro, I risk saying this,
02:34what I can tell you is that it is already a presidential decree, and I reiterate this,
02:39to defend the revolution of Nicolás Maduro at all costs.
02:44That is, in any case, there are no guarantees, not even protection,
02:48for those who decide to oppose the revolution of Maduro.
02:52Natalia, how were the marches today? How were they?
02:59Look, really the marches were many of the high expectations on my part, really,
03:04because I thought that a misfortune was going to happen,
03:08as usually happens in these events so punctual and so marked in the history of Venezuelan politics.
03:15And nothing happened.
03:17And it's not because we expected something bad to happen,
03:21but because Venezuelans are used to something bad always happening,
03:25to something that always happens.
03:27Yes, yes, to someone showing up to the shots.
03:31Exactly. And absolutely nothing happened, thank God.
03:34The only moment of tension that there was really, to be honest,
03:38was when I arrived approximately 40 minutes later and I found out
03:41that the blue bench of María Corina Machado and Elmundo González had already been withdrawn.
03:47And they were withdrawn because they were right next to one of the meeting points
03:52where the officialism took place.
03:54So that was the intention of the officialism,
03:57that their route would meet the route of the opposition
04:01and then lock them up, limit them and sweep them away.
04:05Because there were subjects in civilian clothes, armed,
04:10who were willing to defend Maduro at all costs,
04:14and they swept away the opposition.
04:16All this in the context of photos that circulated yesterday,
04:19at least from international agencies like France Press,
04:22where you could see military men distributing weapons to the civilian population.
04:28It is correct. It is very sad and very painful to have to witness this,
04:35because never in the political history of my country has the government
04:40seen not only Chávez and his successor Maduro,
04:44but to see how they are so desperate to hold on to power.
04:50And tomorrow is a fact.
04:52Tomorrow, Maduro will be sworn in as president of Venezuela.
04:56The real question is, tomorrow, what will be Elmundo González's reaction?
05:01Will he arrive in Caracas as he did?
05:03These are the hopes that the Venezuelan still holds,
05:07and that will not disappear until...
05:10As much as he arrives and does not have any kind of real force,
05:15and the real force in Latin American countries is translated into military power,
05:20he will not arrive anywhere.
05:24That is the Venezuelan despair, as always.
05:27Now I am going to be honest.
05:30I am a journalist, and my position is not something political.
05:36I talk about what I see.
05:38Nobody is going to tell me stories.
05:40I go out on the street and talk about what I see.
05:42I don't talk about what I don't know.
05:44But I can say that the Venezuelan opposition,
05:46for many Venezuelans who did not support this opposition,
05:50do not believe in them.
05:52That is a reality that is also being experienced.
05:54Because let's remember history a little bit.
05:56If we go back to 2015, when the opposition of Maria Corina,
05:59that is, of the people who surround Maria Corina,
06:01won the National Assembly,
06:03the majority did not achieve changes,
06:05and the Venezuelan does not forget.
06:07Natalia, what time is Maduro's assumption tomorrow?
06:13Here, for example, here in Argentina,
06:16now it is 8.20, 8.20.
06:23Here in Venezuela it is 7.20 at night.
06:25Ah, an hour.
06:27Tomorrow, what time is the assumption?
06:29An hour ago.
06:32I would like to, but there is a matter of accreditation.
06:35I am going to try to enter the National Assembly
06:38and see what we achieve on behalf of Nicolás Maduro.
06:41In the world, González, we do not know anything
06:43because his letters are under the blanket.
06:45We still do not know what the pieces are.
06:47At what time is the assumption act,
06:49the assumption of Maduro?
06:51There is no time.
06:53There is no time yet.
06:55It's like a secret act.
06:57It's very strange.
07:01Yes, we have not yet set the agenda.
07:03It's a secret act.
07:05If there is something announced,
07:07it is the assumption time of a president.
07:11Well, not so secret,
07:13because since four days ago
07:15what they have said is that
07:17the preparations are ready
07:19to swear.
07:21Anyway, tomorrow I will be
07:23very early with you
07:25and see how far we get
07:27in a way that we are not accredited.
07:29See who we can interview
07:31and know as far as possible
07:33because the area is very militarized.
07:35Natalia,
07:37how is the Venezuelan economy today?
07:39Because there are different versions.
07:41From the government it is said
07:43that there is a growth of 9%,
07:45that the real economy is recovering.
07:47Now there are other numbers,
07:49especially the International Monetary Fund,
07:51which speak of an inflation
07:53that is close to a hyper.
07:55What is the reality?
07:59Look, really in Venezuela,
08:01as there in Argentina,
08:03there in Argentina is the blue,
08:05here in Venezuela is the parallel.
08:07The parallel here,
08:09that is, the blue here,
08:11is so high that I do not know
08:13where they got those statistics from there,
08:15but Venezuela is not economically
08:17comfortable. It is very complicated
08:19to change the black dollar,
08:21dollars, to the parallel
08:23because it is very high
08:25about what it really should be.
08:27So it's complicated.
08:29The economy, some economic things,
08:31other more expensive things,
08:33like everything, everything is achieved right now,
08:35let's be honest,
08:37not everyone has the purchasing power.
08:39Now it is not
08:41low, medium, high.
08:43Now it is low and high.
08:45Natalia, we thank you.
08:47It is something that is impossible.
08:49We thank you very much,
08:51we congratulate you for your work
08:53throughout the day here at A24.
08:55Thank you very much.