The president has dug in and is waiting for global attention to move elsewhere
Global leaders have reacted in three different ways to the overtly fraudulent elections that Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, claims to have won on July 28, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Based on vote tallies provided by the opposition and viewed as legitimate by independent observers, Maduro won 30.4 percent of the vote, against 67.2 percent for the opposition. But according to the “official” results, Maduro—in power for more than a decade—won 51 percent of the vote.
Numerous European and Latin American countries, alongside the United States, announced that they would not recognize the official results. Chilean President Gabriel Boric said he did not recognize Maduro’s “self-proclaimed” victory. Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay, among others…
