Some Venezuelan-Canadians are upset that Canada — more than a month after Venezuela’s presidential election — still hasn’t recognized a winner. The U.S. and other countries recognized the opposition’s Edmundo Gonzalez after 80 per cent of digitized poll receipts were released, showing him leading by more than two-to-one. CBC | World News
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Top U.S. diplomat says ‘it is clear’ that Nicolás Maduro did not win Venezuela’s election
The stakes grew higher for Venezuela’s electoral authority to show proof backing its decision to declare President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the country’s presidential election after the U.S. recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González as the victor. CBC | World News
Read More »Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro officially declared president — after he and opposition each claimed victory
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Read More »Venezuela’s election: More Maduro or a new democratic era?
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in power since 2013 and running for a third term on July 28, is confident he is still the right man to lead the OPEC country, but Sunday’s presidential election has attracted a level of voter enthusiasm for the opposition that could topple his regime. CBC | World News
Read More »Venezuela’s opposition leader Guaido enters legislative palace after troops allow him to pass
Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s opposition leader and National Assembly president, and a group of allied lawmakers entered the legislative palace on Tuesday following a half-hour standoff with security forces blocking the entrance. CBC | World News
Read More »Maduro blocks Venezuela’s opposition from congress, elects more pliant leadership
Nicolas Maduro’s government has moved aggressively to wipe out what remains of resistance to his socialist rule, attempting to install a pliant leadership in congress in a move opponents compared to an attempted coup in Venezuela’s last democratic institution. CBC | World News
Read More »A ‘good amount’ of Venezuela’s millions of fleeing migrants won’t ever return, UN envoy says
The Venezuela migration crisis has now entered a new stage in which many of those fleeing their country’s devastating economic downturn and political turmoil are increasingly unlikely to return, a United Nations special envoy said. CBC | World News
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