
The Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by the entrenched socialist government of Nicolás Maduro, declared him the winner of the July 28 presidential elections amid much national and international criticism accusing the government of election fraud. The elections took place in a climate of relative peace. However, local media reported that a man was killed in the Andean state of Táchira during the vote tabulation at the end of the day. According to the local newspaper La Nación, an alleged group of paramilitaries sympathetic to the regime fired mortars...