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Tom Phillips and Patricia Torres in Caracas

‘We are longing for change’: Venezuela election sparks pots and pans protest

People protest the official election results declaring President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential election, the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday.
People protest the official election results declaring President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential election, the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP

It was mid-morning in Catia – 12 hours after Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in Venezuela’s presidential election – and the residents of this longtime chavista stronghold were up in arms.

At first the sound of spoons clattering against crockery began timidly, puncturing the eerie silence that gripped large chunks of the capital, Caracas, in the hours after Maduro’s highly controversial move to claim another six-year term.

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