Pressure grows on Maduro after top court endorses Venezuela election win

The supreme court president, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez Rodríguez, declared Maduro’s re-election ‘indisputable’. Photograph: Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images

Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro is facing a growing chorus of international outrage after the government-controlled supreme court endorsed his disputed claim to have won the presidential election.

Venezuela’s opposition has claimed Maduro tried to steal the 28 July election and has produced compelling evidence that its candidate, Edmundo González, was the winner.