Maduro’s 2018 election was widely rejected as a sham after authorities banned key opponents from running. And Venezuela’s opposition faction accuse him of outright ballot fraud last year.

Three died. More than 2,200 people were detained after Venezuela’s July presidential election, when civil unrest broke out over Maduro’s claim to victory. With dissent firmly squelched ...

The Venezuelan president promises period of peace and prosperity as the opposition and US continue to reject his rule.

Maduro’s last inauguration, in 2019, was attended by Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel and then-Bolivian President Evo Morales. The 2018 election was widely considered a sham after his ...

Maduro was sworn in for a highly contested third term on January 10 after claiming victory in the July vote, which the opposition says its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won.

As the Venezuelan election in July 2024 approached, momentum was on the side of the opposition’s bid to oust the country’s autocratic leader, President Nicolás Maduro, at the ballot box.

The Election Board announced the vote slated for April 22 had been pushed back to the second half of May, after a deal between Maduro and some parties Venezuela's national election board announced ...

Last week, Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term after a fraudulent election last July that independent surveys show he lost by about 35 percentage points. His opponent, Edmundo González ...

A short-lived US-backed coup in 2002 temporarily deposed Chávez. And all three elections of Nicolás Maduro (2013, 2018, 2024) were deemed “fraudulent” prior to the actual votes, on the ...