Ione Wells
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The two have been in a very public dispute over who should run the party. Last year, thousands of his supporters blocked roads leading to the Cocoa Growers Union headquarters where Mr Morales is living to try block his potential arrest for statutory rape. Today, women also protested outside the courthouse with banners demanding justice and saying girls are not to be touched.
The immediate hope is that this move will lead to the release of some of the protesters who were detained after the brutal crackdown on huge anti-government protests in Cuba over the nation's economic decline.
But this decision is also significant, because it can be seen as a step towards normalising relations between Cuba and the US, which could pave the way for dialogue on other contentious issues. It could also help Cuba's dire economic situation, as some major banks and foreign investors have struggled to operate there legally.
Cuba was last removed from the list under President Obama, but days before Donald Trump left office in 2021, his government placed Cuba back on it. It's unclear whether Mr Trump will reverse this latest decision when he returns to office. The president-elect's nomination as the next US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has long advocated for sanctions on Cuba.
His family left the country in the 1950s, before the communist revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.
Well, I think it's going to be quite a tightly controlled ceremony.
As expected, he is going to be inaugurated despite the fact that there have been huge anti-government protests in the last 24 hours, despite the fact that he's not been recognised as the president-elect by a lot of countries overseas, whether that be the US, EU, UK, but also even neighbouring countries like Brazil and Colombia, whose left-wing presidents do have historical links with countries
The sort of political movement that Maduro inherited from his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, even they have said that they don't recognise the result of the election. But despite this and despite the pressure that's been applied to his government by the international stage in terms of things like sanctions as well, he is still set to be inaugurated soon. later today.
Now, it's a very tightly controlled event, as I say. Foreign media aren't allowed in. There is going to be some press there, but I think essentially his speech will be televised in the country and it is expected to be highly, highly militarised around the city today. There has been quite a significant crackdown again on any kind of anti-government protest.
There were quite big crowds that turned up yesterday in Caracas to demonstrate ahead of the inauguration, but there was a very, very high armed military and police presence on the streets too.
That's right. It was a really big moment yesterday because, as you say, she hadn't really been seen in public since August. She had done some interviews. She had still been posting, for example.
She had called people to go out into the streets yesterday to protest, but she hadn't been seen because she's been in hiding until yesterday, where she sort of stood in quite a sort of defiant image on top of. what was essentially the top of a vehicle, addressing crowds, aggressing her supporters, lots of people out taking photographs with her, supporting the opposition cause.
Now, her team say that when she was leaving that rally, she was, in their words, violently intercepted in the east of the city as part of her motorcycle convoy. They say that she was then
held for a period of time forced to record some videos but was eventually released this is something that the Venezuelan government have denied and they've called this a media distraction but it is quite significant that she decided to come out of hiding given that there is an arrest warrant against her
Edmundo Gonzalez, who was the opposition candidate in the election, has said that he would return to Venezuela to, in his words, claim victory in sort of tying into this inauguration. However, he hasn't really outlined how and when. And I think that would be a significant risk for him, given there's also an arrest warrant for him and authorities have made it very clear he would be detained.
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