Leader says ‘perverse and macabre’ electoral rivals are stoking protests as US official calls for governments to acknowledge Edmundo González Urrutia as election winner
A man walks under a giant billboard with the vandalised image of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. International groups have condemned the lack of transparency in election results which led to national protests.A man walks under a giant billboard with the vandalised image of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. International groups have condemned the lack of transparency in election results which led to national protests.
During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House spokesperson John Kirby said the US had “serious concerns about subversions of democratic norms” and reports of violence and casualties involving protesters. “Our patience and that of the international community is running out,” Kirby said. Later, during an encounter with the foreign press in the heavily guarded Miraflores palace, Maduro said he hoped to see González and Machado imprisoned. “These people must be put behind bars,” he said as hundreds of supporters gathered outside.
“We are facing a violent, fascist and criminal counter-revolution,” the handpicked successor of former president Hugo Chávez proclaimed, vowing to resist – by force if necessary. “He’s counting on being able to wait this out and people will get tired of demonstrating,” Cynthia Arnson, a distinguished fellow at the Wilson Center thinktank in Washington, told the Associated Press. “The problem is the country is in a death spiral and there’s no chance the economy will be able to recover without the legitimacy that comes from a fair election.”
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