Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro Says Opposition Should Be Jailed at Least 30 Years

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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro said his opposition rivals and their supporters who took to the street should be jailed for at least 30 years, as he asked the nation’s government-controlled top court to verify his self-declared electoral victory.

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00:00This is a protest because the government of the United States and the High Commissioner Volker Trump

00:08come out to ask for respect for peaceful protests and to say that it is not repressed.

00:14What do we do? We withdraw. We let them burn all the CNE headquarters.

00:18Volker Trump, government of the United States, we let them burn all the CNE headquarters.

00:24Mr. González Urrutia, Mr. Machado, these are your troops, right?

00:30These are your commanders. This is your peaceful plan.

00:35Can these people govern Venezuela?

00:38What would you do if you took political power?

00:41I'm in dialogue with him. I'm not going to advance anything.

00:44I'm just in dialogue with him.

00:46I had the opportunity to explain many things to him in this dialogue that we have.

00:52The things that I have explained here and that I will continue to explain.

00:56There are some spokespersons on the right, Juan Pablo Guanipa and others,

01:04who have talked about the repetition of elections.

01:10What is that?

01:12I won the domino game and I ask that it be repeated.

01:23Something like that. We are playing dominoes and I win.

01:28I ask that this be repeated, please!

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