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Regina Garcia Cano, The Associated Press, May 30, 2024
"One of the most influential politicians in Venezuela once deemed images of his fellow citizens abandoning their home country the result of a professionally scripted, “Hollywood-type blockbuster.” Migration, Diosdado Cabello said, was an issue conjured by a “media apparatus.” Similarly, his boss, President Nicolás Maduro, denied for years, at least publicly, that millions of people were literally walking away from Venezuela..."
"“A town hall is not ‘The Grave’s’ purpose”, is what Giovanni Rondón, a gang leader nicknamed “Tumba” (Grave), says on a television interview found on YouTube as part of a farewell video eulogy, uploaded after his murder. He is referring to his political aspirations while appearing alongside current Sucre mayor José Vicente Rangel Ávalos, touting what were the initial stages of the now infamous “Zonas de Paz” or the government’s unofficial program to promote peace through negotiations with armed gangs in several sectors of the country..."
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