The Latest Breaking News from Nicolás Maduro

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro won re-election with 51% of Sunday's vote, the electoral council announced on Monday, following a campaign marred by claims of opposition intimidation and fears of fraud. Opposition candidate Edmundo González, who had been leading in independent polls, won 44% of the vote.

Elvis Amoroso said that, with over 80% of the votes tallied, the president got over 50% of the vote

Edison Research revealed an exit poll that projects Edmundo González Urrutia will defeat Nicolás Maduro in a landslide win

Venezuelans are choosing whether to give another six years to President Nicolás Maduro and extend the policies that have caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse, or whether to go with his last-minute opponent, retired diplomat Edmundo González

Edmundo González Urrutia could upset Nicolás Maduro’s run for a third term – but several obstacles can prevent a regime change

Nicolás Maduro has survived an almost impossible litany of threats since becoming the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's political heir in 2013

The past two months have been unlike anything Edmundo González Urrutia had ever experienced: He gave political speeches, shook people’s hands and waved from the top of a truck moving through cheering crowds gathered across Venezuela

González answered a series of questions from the Latin Times ahead of the country's consequential elections

Edmundo González Urrutia also said that he trusts the country's military will respect Sunday's election results