Thank you very much, stephen. It s a pleasure to be with you again. It s great to talk to you. It s two months now since venezuelans voted in the presidential election. Just tell me what has happened to you since that vote. Well, our victory by a landslide was something the regime didn t expect. As well as the fact that in less than 2a hours, we were able to collect, digitalise and put on a robust web page over 83% of the tally sheets, the official tally sheets that actually demonstrated our victory. It was a 70 over 30 victory, but if it had been a freer election, believe me, we would have won at least by 90 to 10. So this was a huge defeat for the regime. Maduro is naked in front of the whole world and his followers. And so his decision was to get surrounded and entrenched around the top brass of the military and in fact, unleash terror. This has reached to thousands of venezuelans that have been detained, and everybody that was directly involved in organising the election is right n
Words of thanks for the expressions of solidarity i received from you. I wanted to inform you that i arrived to madrid today in the morning, my departure from caracas was surrounded by episodes of pressure, coercion and threats that i would not be allowed to leave. I trust that we would soon continue the fight for liberty and the return to democracy in venezuela. A big hug for everyone. Venezuela s opposition says its candiate mr gonzalez won the presidential election held on the 28th ofjuly. The opposition published vote tallies online claiming to show its victory. The us, the eu and other nations backed those voting figures and to this day recognise mr gonzalez as the winner. But, nicolas maduro a socialist who s been in power 11 years says he won the election. He moved to crush protests and legal challenges to the results ultimately forcing mr gonzalez to seek protection. Before fleeing the country, he took refuge in the spanish embassy in caracas. The 75 year old faced certai
I wanted to inform you that i arrived to madrid today in the morning. In the morning. My departure from caracas was surrounded by episodes of pressure, coercion of pressure, coercion and threats that i would not be and threats that i would not be allowed to leave. Allowed to leave. I trust that we will soon continue the fight for liberty and the return to and the return to democracy in venezuela. A big hug for everyone. Democracy in venezuela. A big hug for everyone. Venezuela s opposition says its candidate, venezuela s opposition says its candidate, mr gonzalez, won the mr gonzalez, won the presidential election held on the 28th ofjuly. Presidential election held on the 28th ofjuly. The us, the eu and other the us, the eu and other nations backed those voting nations backed those voting figures. Figures. Us secretary of state us secretary of state antony blinken said that antony blinken said that nicolas maduro must nicolas maduro must not be allowed to cling not be allowed to cling
Us treasury secretary janet yellen called the downgrade arbitrary and said Economic Conditions had improved under the biden administration. The news of the downgrade came after the close of trade on wall street but in asia investors have been pulling out of equities in reaction. Lets look at markets now in asia. Japan is currently down by over 2 . Hong kong not that far behind. This was off the back of yesterday, and most of this week we have seen the sharemarket, certainly wall street and asia having a strong session but this is certainly spooked sentiment. Lets discuss this with tom stevenson, whos an Investment Director at fidelity. Good morning. Janet woody allen saying this is arbitrary. I have her statement janet yellen and she said she strongly disagrees and says it is based on outdated data. That is based on outdated data. That is riuht. Is based on outdated data. That is right it is based on outdated data. That is right. It seems is based on outdated data. That is right. It s