(26 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Caracas, Venezuela – 23 August 2025
1. Various of National Guard official displaying weapons
2. Signing up to join the militia during the weekend
3. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez speaking during the military enlistment campaign
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 25 August 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Andrea Sotelo, Caracas resident:
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"We are constantly living in uncertainty, day to day, because really don’t know what is going to happen. So, what does depend on us to make our day-to-day life as we continue to carry on."
5. Militiaman sitting on a bench at a square talking with other people
6. Man standing in front of portrait of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez painted on a wall
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diego Romero, Caracas resident:
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"Now it’s the ships, and so-and-so someone is coming, it seems like every day there’s something. In the end, it’s like there’s never anything, and that also wears you out a bit."
8. Wide of Sotelo and Romero walking
9. Man cheering on the government from the bus UPSOUND (Spanish): "Long live the country and the revolution."
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ana Martinez, 49, supermarket cashier:
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"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."
11. Ana Martinez, supermarket cashier, waiting for the bus
12. Person on phone as traffic passes
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 25 August 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House:
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Trump is putting, thanks to Marco Rubio, Venezuela front and center again. It is going to get attention. What’s also real though is this, as I said before, that the militarization of the issue. 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."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Caracas, Venezuela – 19 August 2025
14. Various of government supporters rallying in support of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
15. 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.
But with fake news and disinformation dominating social media, some Venezuelans said it all seems like a political theater that obscures more pressing concerns.
"I sometimes think these are things meant to cover up so people think in that and not in the reality we are living," said supermarket cashier Ana Martinez while waiting for the bus. "The reality we are living in is that what we earn is not enough."
Maduro’s government has used the news to rally its bases under a patriotic sentiment.
During the weekend, they carried out a military enlistment in the country’s militia. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López appeared at weekend rallies to encourage sign-ups.
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