
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro further escalated political tensions in the country by saying that his party will win this year's elections "one way or the other."
"When they do it, how they do it, the people are organized and will win," said Maduro during a political rally to commemorate a failed military coup led by former president Hugo Chávez, who would then go on to win the presidency seven years later and designate Maduro as his successor.