As Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claims an unverifiable victory, anti-government protests there grow.
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As a result, allegations of fraud are multiplying and Venezuelans as well as foreign governments are calling on Maduro to release the official tally sheets from the more than 30,000 voting machines. Celso Amorim, an envoy for the leftwing government of Brazil, met with Maduro Monday and said the strongman had promised to release official data on the election.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez join hands during a protest against the result of the presidential election on July 30 in Caracas.In the meantime, the Organization of American States issued a scathing report saying Maduro’s claims of victory “deserve neither to be trusted nor to be democratically recognized.”
Referring to the massive turnout in Sunday’s voting, Machado said in her speech: “Soldiers saw with their own eyes the country’s triumph over tyranny.”González added: “We insist that our armed forces respect the will of the people… You know what happened on Sunday.” Maduro himself made similar threats on Tuesday."I hold you, González, responsible for everything that is happening in Venezuela: the criminal violence, the delinquents, the injuries, the deaths and the destruction. You are directly responsible as are you Machado, and there has to be justice. Because these things, this attack on the people, must not happen again in Venezuela."
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