Venezuela: A Contested Election or is the U.S.-Backed Opposition Crying ‘Wolf’ Again?

On 28 July a presidential election took place in Venezuela. Expected to be one of the closest presidential races in years, soon after midnight, the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared that, with 80 percent of the vote counted, incumbent leftist president Nicolás Maduro won by 5,150,092 votes (51.20 percent) to the 4,445,978 votes (44.2 percent) [...]