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Weekly Report - 17 October 2024 (WR-24-41)
Machado makes desperate appeal to armed forces as hope fades
Venezuela’s opposition figurehead María Corina Machado urged the Bolivarian armed forces (FANB) this week not to prop up “a regime that is on the way out”. Machado said that “after nearly three months neither the CNE [national electoral council] nor the TSJ [supreme court] nor [President Nicolás] Maduro have been able to show a single shred of evidence that they won the election - because they lost”. It is not the first time that Machado has sought to reach out to the FANB in the wake of July’s presidential elections but, in the absence of international diplomacy exerting any meaningful pressure, she is struggling to keep alive the slender hope of the opposition amid what the United Nations independent international fact-finding mission (FFMV) on Venezuela described in a report released this week as “the harshest and most violent form of repression in order to silence political opponents or persons perceived as such”.
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- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Progress on key promise
- EL SALVADOR: Ambitious debt-for-nature deal sealed
- TRACKING TRENDS
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