Images of the mass concentration of María Corina Machado and González Urrutia on the first day of election campaigning in Venezuela.

Jul 4, 2024 11:13 pm EST

Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado during a rally in Caracas (Gabriela ORAA / AFP)

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters of presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia during a campaign rally in Caracas (Gabriela ORAA/AFP).

Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia greets his supporters during a rally in eastern Caracas on the first day of the election campaign (Gabriela ORAA / AFP).

Thousands of opposition supporters took part in a massive march that toured one of Caracas’ main avenues (Gabriela ORAA / AFP).

María Corina Machado expressed that they were going to “achieve the liberation” of the country and said that young people who had migrated in recent years would return (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

“Thank you very much to everyone, we invite you to follow this route until July 28. With your support, we are going to collect and win,” said Edmundo González Urrutia (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria).

Gonzalez Urrutia has promised to release “all political prisoners” if he wins the July 28 presidential election (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

An opposition supporter with his face painted in the colors of the Venezuelan flag attends a campaign rally by Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia and Maria Corina Machado in Caracas (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Machado described the PUD campaign as “historic” and promised that “it will be studied in the future” because “there is no campaign in the media,” people “find out through networks and spread the word.” Word of mouth” (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Machado and González Urrutia, in their travels through various states, encountered all kinds of blockades that forced them to take alternative routes (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

In addition to Gonzalez Urrutia, nine other presidential candidates will participate in the election campaign, which officially ends on July 25 (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado says the majority opposition’s campaign in favor of candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is “historic” and “breaks with everything conventional” (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Supporters of opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez celebrate the death of candidate and opposition leader María Corina Machado at an event to kick off the political campaign for the July 28 presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez waves a flag with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at a campaign launch event in Caracas (AP Photo/Ariana Cupillos)

Machado insisted there were “no election promises or material deliveries”, although thousands of citizens flocked to campaign events to “give their work and show their love” (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Gonzalez Urrutia’s candidacy has not featured in the public media, while his direct rival, dictator Nicolas Maduro, occupies hours of daily state media coverage (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

21,620,705 Venezuelans are invited to vote in the July 28 presidential election, where they will choose between 10 candidates (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

“Today begins the path of rebirth and change of hope for Venezuela,” González told media from the truck carrying him through Caracas (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Thousands of people watch the caravan of opposition leaders in Caracas (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

“I feel we are free now, Venezuela has ended the dictatorship,” said Edmundo, a 52-year-old nurse (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

González Urrutia took over as candidate after the blockades and vetoes of other potential alternatives, he won the opposition primaries and was the natural candidate, but was not nominated due to disqualification from governing (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

María Corina Machado campaigned and traveled the country by car because Chavismo forbids traveling by plane (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

“They can’t stop this force,” Machado said with Gonzalez in the truck. “This is more than an election campaign, it is a deep feeling for the independence of Venezuela” (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Most opinion polls show an unprecedented victory for the opposition (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernández Viloria)

Brian Nichols, undersecretary of the US Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, said his government hopes to retain Edmundo Gonzalez’s personal candidacy in Venezuela’s elections next July (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria).

In recent months, many critics of the regime have been jailed, including several members of Machado’s campaign team (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria).

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Durk, condemned the rise in political persecution in Venezuela (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Opposition activists Ignacio Monique and Aldo Rosso, members of the Voluntad Popular (VP) party, were arrested Thursday in Venezuela (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria).

Edmundo González Urrutia’s campaign command assured that the coalition has all the political structures to include citizens in the election campaign (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

A nun holds a Venezuelan flag during a campaign event for Edmundo González in Caracas (Gabriela ORAA/AFP)

Supporters of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia sing at the official start of the campaign for the presidential election in Caracas on July 28 (AP Photo/Ariana Cupillos)

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