(26 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 25 August 2025
1. Woman looking at cellphone in the street
2. Militiaman sitting on a bench at a square talking with other people
3. People walking on the street
4. People on a bus
5. Various of Ana Martinez, supermarket cashier, waiting for the bus
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Martinez, 49, supermarket cashier:
"I sometimes think these are things meant to cover up so people think in that and not in the reality we are living. The reality we are living in is that what we earn is not enough."
7. People in square
8. Caracas residents Diego Romero and Andrea Sotelo walking while holding hands
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Romero, Caracas resident:
"For a long time now, here in Venezuela, every so often there’s news that apparently is going to change everything, and I think many of us are kind of tired of that. It’s like now something new has arrived, now it’s the ships. Now so-and-so is coming, it seems like every day there’s something, and in the end, it’s like there’s never anything, and that also wears you out a bit when it comes to focusing your mind on solving what will really affect you tomorrow."
10. Romero and Sotelo walking and laughing
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andrea Sotelo, Caracas resident:
"We are constantly living, day by day, in uncertainty because we really don’t know what will happen. So, what does depend on us to make our day-to-day life as we continue to carry on."
12. Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, speaking with AP journalists via video call
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 25 August 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House:
"Trump is putting, thanks to Marco Rubio, Venezuela front and center again. It’s never been this front and center since the (Juan) Guaido days. So it is going to get attention. What’s also real though is this, as I said before, that the militarization of the issue."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Caracas, Venezuela – 23 August 2025
14. Various of National Guard official displaying weapons
15. Various of people signing up to join the militia during the weekend
16. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez speaking during the military enlistment campaign
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 25 August 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House:
"It’s all performance all around. It’s trilateral performance – on the US’s part, on the opposition’s part as well as on the government’s part, and that’s what it basically is. Now, and so consequently what he’s doing is, you know, and this is what happens often in these, in other countries as well. When a government feels it’s under external threat, it circles the wagons."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Caracas, Venezuela – 19 August 2025
18. Various of government supporters rallying in support of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
19. Child holding doll depicting late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
STORYLINE:
Three U.S. Navy destroyers bound for the Caribbean have yet to arrive off Venezuela’s coast, but one week after the news of their deployment, uncertainty reigns among Venezuelans who don’t know what to believe anymore.
The deployment of the three Aegis guided-missile destroyers has dominated conversations in the streets and at dinner tables, where the alleged threat of invasion, promoted by loyalists of President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling party as well as their opponents, are spilling over from social media and state television.
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