Good morning. It is 12 days since elections took place in Venezuela, but there is still no consensus on the winner. The incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, claimed he won with 51% of the vote, ahead of rival Edmundo González Urrutia with 44%.
However, the results were immediately met with suspicion. The president, who was running for a third term to lead a country that has been in a near-constant state of economic crisis during his tenure, made his position clear last month when he said there would be a “bloodbath” in Venezuela if he lost.
