Protests have broken out in Venezuela following President Maduro’s re-election to a third six-year term.
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He has rejected international criticism and doubts about the election results. The opposition candidate says he won.
Security forces fired tear gas at protesters who took to the streets chanting “Freedom!” and “This government will fall!” and even toppled several statues of Hugo Chavez, Maduro’s predecessor who served as president for 14 years before his death from cancer in 2013.
One of the statues was toppled in Coro, the capital of Falcon state. There are already casualties among protesters and security forces.
Chavez’s successor, 61-year-old Maduro, said Venezuela had been the scene of an attempted “coup d’etat of a fascist and counterrevolutionary nature.”
However, opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez announced that he had proof of his victory in the election.
The previous presidential elections were also accompanied by mass protests, Maduro was removed from power and opposition leader Juan Guaido was proclaimed president, but in the end, nothing came of it.
Nicolas Maduro is an ally of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and supports the war against Ukraine.
Venezuela has recalled diplomats from several countries, including Argentina and Peru, for criticizing the election results and Maduro, calling it “interference in the country’s internal affairs.”
Source: Racurs
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