00:00For the very latest on the situation in Caracas, let's cross live to our correspondent there, Norris Argata Soto, is standing by for us. Norris, perhaps you can clarify the situation there for us. We're seeing reports from here that security forces have been stopping people on the streets to check their phones, manning checkpoints around the city. What is the very latest? What is the mood there today?
00:23Hello, Sharon. Thank you for having me. The situation is correct. At least yesterday and today, police officers were down the streets alongside with these colectivos, which are basically armed militia, civilians, armed, working side to side with the police, stopping people, searching their cars, also searching their phones,
00:52their platform, their social media, their messages. It is not worth to say that two people were detained today in Merida, which is a Western state, and two people were confirmed detained by the police
01:08because they were allegedly celebrating Maduro's imprisonment. According to the report from the police, they were disrupting the peace and also they were molesting their or troubling their neighbors, the supporters of Maduro.
01:26So they were in prison today. This is just adding to the situation of instability and severe anxiousness that the Venezuelans are living right now.
01:38Norris, separately, further details have been emerging about what happened during that US raid on Caracas. At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed that night. What more do we know at this stage?
01:50Well, what we know is that what was said before is that in totals, there are 55 people dead, according to official numbers.
02:03Of these 55, 23 were military personnel, and the other 33 or 32 were from Cuban, actually Cuban military men who were allegedly guarding Nicolas Maduro at the moment that he was sacked from the country.
02:24Also, there's one civilian reported in La Guayda. She died. It was an 80-year-old lady. Allegedly, she died when she was attacked at her home, and then she was taken to a hospital and died in the hospital.
02:41The family is being very secretive. They are refusing to speak to the press. But that's the count of people who have lost their lives during these raids on Saturday.
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