Previously unknown to most Venezuelans, his campaign nonetheless rapidly ignited the hopes of millions of Venezuelans desperate for change after a decade long economic freefall.<\/p>\n
Most Western governments have contested the results of July's election, which declared President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro the winner. Opposition volunteers who have collected tally sheets from electronic voting machines indicate that Gonz\u00e1lez won the election. <\/p>\n
The Maduro controlled panel of the National Electoral Council did not release the result of over 30,000 voting machines after this year's elections, blaming an alleged cyberattack from North Macedonia. <\/p>\n
Attorney General Tarek William Saab, a staunch Maduro ally, has sought Gonz\u00e1lez's arrest after he failed to appear three times in connection to a criminal investigation into what it considers an act of electoral sabotage. <\/p>\n
Saab told reporters the voting records the opposition shared online were forged and an attempt to undermine the National Electoral Council. <\/p>\n
Experts from the United Nations and the Carter Centre, which at the invitation of Maduro\u2019s government observed the election, determined the results announced by electoral authorities lacked credibility.<\/p>\n
In a statement critical of the election, the UN experts stopped short of validating the opposition\u2019s claim to victory, but they said the voting records it published online appear to exhibit all of the original security features. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725775648,"updatedAt":1725791714,"publishedAt":1725778135,"firstPublishedAt":1725778135,"lastPublishedAt":1725791714,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/27\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4bd680aa-30e2-55cc-a305-d17b7b07807d-8712782.jpg","altText":"FILE - Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez in a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024.","caption":"FILE - Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez in a square in the Hatillo municipality of Caracas, Venezuela, June 19, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ariana Cubillos\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro reschedules Venezuelan Christmas to 1 October","titleListing2":"President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro brings forward Christmas to 1 October in Venezuela","leadin":"Venezuela's president has decreed an early start to the Christmas season. However, amid a deep political crisis, not everyone in the country is in the mood for caroling.","summary":"Venezuela's president has decreed an early start to the Christmas season. However, amid a deep political crisis, not everyone in the country is in the mood for caroling.","keySentence":"","url":"why-is-president-nicolas-maduro-moving-christmas-forward-to-1-october-in-venezuela","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/09\/04\/why-is-president-nicolas-maduro-moving-christmas-forward-to-1-october-in-venezuela","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\u201cThis year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I\u2019m going to decree an early Christmas for 1 October ,\u201d Venezuela's President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro said Monday night on Con Maduro+, his weekly TV show.\n\nThis is not the first time Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, has moved forward the holiday season. According to the Latin American press, it has become a tradition since he succeeded the previous president, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez. \n\nBut this year, it is earlier than ever...\n\nIn 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Maduro decreed the start of Christmas on 15 October. In 2021, he announced it on 5 October with a video on social media showing the decoration of the Miraflores Palace, the seat of government.\n\nWhat does an early Christmas really mean?\n\nDespite the enthusiasm of the president in announcing his decision, the decree is unlikely to have a great impact on daily life.\n\nAs various media outlets, citing the news agency EFE, have explained, the main effect will be the placement of Christmas decorations in public spaces.\n\nBesides, the Venezuelan population does not seem to be in the mood for singing Christmas carols. \u201cWe are all worried about how we are going to put food on the table, how we are going to pay for the bus, send the children to school and buy medicine when we need it,\u201d In\u00e9s Quevedo, a 39-year-old secretary and mother of two children, told news agency AP.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t think they will improve our salaries or pay us the \u2018aguinaldo\u2019,\u201d she added, referring to the Christmas bonuses that workers usually receive at the end of the year.\n\nThe country has been embroiled in a deep political crisis since the last presidential elections of 28 July, with both Maduro and the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, claiming victory. \n\nDespite requests from the international community, the Venezuelan ruling party has yet to release the electoral records proving its victory.\n\nThe EU does not recognise either candidate. \"He [Nicol\u00e1s Maduro] will remain president de facto, but we deny democratic legitimacy based on results that cannot be verified,\" the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said after an informal ministerial meeting in Brussels, last week.\n\nJust hours before Maduro\u2019s holiday announcement, a Venezuelan judge issued an arrest warrant for Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, accusing him of various crimes including conspiracy, falsifying documents and usurpation of powers.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ll see what this Christmas is all about,\u201d In\u00e9s Quevedo said.\n\n","htmlText":"
\u201cThis year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I\u2019m going to decree an early Christmas for 1 October ,\u201d Venezuela's President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro said Monday night on Con Maduro+<\/em>, his weekly TV show.<\/p>\n This is not the first time Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, has moved forward the holiday season<\/strong><\/a>. According to the Latin American press, it has become a tradition since he succeeded the previous president, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez. <\/p>\n But this year, it is earlier than ever...<\/p>\n In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><\/a>, Maduro decreed the start of Christmas on 15 October. In 2021, he announced it on 5 October with a video on social media showing the decoration of the Miraflores Palace, the seat of government.<\/p>\n Despite the enthusiasm of the president in announcing his decision, the decree is unlikely to have a great impact on daily life.<\/p>\n As various media outlets, citing the news agency EFE, have explained, the main effect will be the placement of Christmas decorations<\/strong><\/a> in public spaces.<\/p>\n Besides, the Venezuelan population does not seem to be in the mood for singing Christmas carols. \u201cWe are all worried about how we are going to put food on the table, how we are going to pay for the bus, send the children to school and buy medicine when we need it,\u201d In\u00e9s Quevedo, a 39-year-old secretary and mother of two children, told news agency AP.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think they will improve our salaries or pay us the \u2018aguinaldo\u2019,\u201d she added, referring to the Christmas bonuses that workers usually receive at the end of the year.<\/p>\n The country has been embroiled in a deep political crisis since the last presidential elections of 28 July, with both Maduro and the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, claiming victory. <\/p>\n Despite requests from the international community, the Venezuelan ruling party has yet to release the electoral records proving its victory.<\/p>\n The EU does not recognise either candidate. \"He [Nicol\u00e1s Maduro] will remain president de facto, but we deny democratic legitimacy based on results that cannot be verified,\" the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said after an informal ministerial meeting in Brussels, last week.<\/p>\n Just hours before Maduro\u2019s holiday announcement, a Venezuelan judge issued an arrest warrant for Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, accusing him of various crimes including conspiracy, falsifying documents and usurpation of powers.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll see what this Christmas is all about,\u201d In\u00e9s Quevedo said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725449708,"updatedAt":1725463415,"publishedAt":1725459371,"firstPublishedAt":1725459371,"lastPublishedAt":1725459371,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/70\/30\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9d329947-0d83-5d46-bb01-b38cdf11bb1e-8703042.jpg","altText":"President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 3, 2023.","caption":"President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 3, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Matias Delacroix\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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VENEZUELA GONZALEZ ARREST WARRANT","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Venezuela orders arrest of former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Venezuela orders arrest of opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez","titleListing2":"Venezuela orders arrest of former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez ","leadin":"The warrant came after opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado posted election records online, which allegedly revealed that President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro had lost to the former diplomat by a significant margin.","summary":"The warrant came after opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado posted election records online, which allegedly revealed that President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro had lost to the former diplomat by a significant margin.","keySentence":"","url":"venezuela-orders-arrest-of-former-presidential-candidate-edmundo-gonzalez","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/09\/03\/venezuela-orders-arrest-of-former-presidential-candidate-edmundo-gonzalez","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez concerning a criminal investigation into July's election results.\n\nThe order was issued on Monday following a request from authorities, who accuse President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro's opponent of various crimes, including conspiracy, document forgery, and power usurpation. \n\nThe move marks the latest suppressive measure against Venezuela's opposition, just a month after electoral authorities declared Maduro the winner of a third six-year term in office.\n\nAuthorities pursued the arrest warrant after Gonz\u00e1lez failed to appear for questioning by prosecutors on three consecutive occasions. The former diplomat, 75, has not been seen publicly since the day following the vote.\n\nThe European Union does not recognise either candidate and demands the release of all electoral records.\n\n\"Maduro has lost all touch with reality,\" opposition politician Mar\u00eda Corina Machado wrote on social media platform X after the arrest warrant was issued. \"The arrest warrant issued by the regime to threaten President-Elect Edmundo Gonzalez crosses a new line that only strengthens the resolve of our movement.\" \n\n\"Venezuelans and democracies around the world are more united than ever in our quest for freedom,\" she added.\n\nVoting records left unpublished\n\nAt the centre of the scandal are records, pursued by prosecutors, which have long been considered the definitive proof of Venezuela's election results. \n\nVenezuelans vote using electronic machines, which record votes and also provide a paper receipt.\n\nEach of the 30,000 electronic voting machines used in the elections on 28 July transmitted their records to the National Electoral Council.\n\nHours after the polls closed, electoral authorities loyal to the ruling party declared Maduro the winner, but they failed to publish the results recorded by the machines, as they had done in previous presidential elections. \n\nThe National Electoral Council claimed it could not publish the information because its website was hacked.\n\nWho holds the records? \n\nBy law, each party participating in the elections is entitled to receive one record from each machine. \n\nThe government managed to get their hands on these crucial documents from over 80% of the machines, while its supporters attempted to block opposition representatives from doing the same.\n\nNevertheless, Machado surprised both supporters and opponents when she posted the records online, claiming that the documents indicated Maduro had lost to Gonz\u00e1lez by a significant margin.\n\nAn Associated Press review of the records released by the opposition revealed that Gonz\u00e1lez received significantly more votes than the Venezuelan government has reported, raising serious doubts about the validity of Maduro's claimed victory.\n\nAs international pressure grew for a detailed breakdown of the results, Maduro requested that the Supreme Court audit the electoral process. \n\nThis move drew immediate criticism from foreign observers, who argued that the court was too closely aligned with the government to conduct an independent review.\n\nSupreme Court justices are nominated by federal officials and ratified by the National Assembly, Venezuela's unicameral legislature, which is dominated by Maduro supporters.\n\nThe court ruled on 22 August that the results published by the opposition were false and ratified Maduro's victory. The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela refused to publish its copies of the records.\n\nGonz\u00e1lez, who represented the opposition coalition Unitary Platform, was summoned to the prosecutor's office last Friday, in a move slammed by Machado.\n\nShe has accused them of flouting due process guarantees and accused Attorney General Tarek William Saab, a long-time Maduro ally, of being a \"political accuser\" who \"condemns in advance\".\n\nGonz\u00e1lez refused the summons to the interview, arguing that they did not specify the condition under which he was expected to appear, among other reasons.\n\n","htmlText":" A Venezuelan judge has issued an arrest warrant for former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez concerning a criminal investigation into July's election results.<\/p>\n The order was issued on Monday following a request from authorities, who accuse President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro's opponent of various crimes, including conspiracy, document forgery, and power usurpation. <\/p>\n The move marks the latest suppressive measure against Venezuela's opposition, just a month after electoral authorities declared Maduro the winner of a third six-year term in office.<\/p>\n Authorities pursued the arrest warrant after Gonz\u00e1lez failed to appear for questioning by prosecutors on three consecutive occasions. The former diplomat, 75, has not been seen publicly since the day following the vote.<\/p>\n The European Union does not recognise either candidate and demands the release of all electoral records.<\/p>\n \"Maduro has lost all touch with reality,\" opposition politician Mar\u00eda Corina Machado wrote on social media platform X after the arrest warrant was issued. \"The arrest warrant issued by the regime to threaten President-Elect Edmundo Gonzalez crosses a new line that only strengthens the resolve of our movement.\" <\/p>\n \"Venezuelans and democracies around the world are more united than ever in our quest for freedom,\" she added.<\/p>\n At the centre of the scandal are records, pursued by prosecutors, which have long been considered the definitive proof of Venezuela's election results. <\/p>\n Venezuelans vote using electronic machines, which record votes and also provide a paper receipt.<\/p>\n Each of the 30,000 electronic voting machines used in the elections on 28 July transmitted their records to the National Electoral Council.<\/p>\n Hours after the polls closed, electoral authorities loyal to the ruling party declared Maduro the winner, but they failed to publish the results recorded by the machines, as they had done in previous presidential elections. <\/p>\n The National Electoral Council claimed it could not publish the information because its website was hacked.<\/p>\n By law, each party participating in the elections is entitled to receive one record from each machine. <\/p>\n The government managed to get their hands on these crucial documents from over 80% of the machines, while its supporters attempted to block opposition representatives from doing the same.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Machado surprised both supporters and opponents when she posted the records online, claiming that the documents indicated Maduro had lost to Gonz\u00e1lez by a significant margin.<\/p>\n An Associated Press review of the records released by the opposition revealed that Gonz\u00e1lez received significantly more votes than the Venezuelan government has reported, raising serious doubts about the validity of Maduro's claimed victory.<\/p>\n As international pressure grew for a detailed breakdown of the results, Maduro requested that the Supreme Court audit the electoral process. <\/p>\n This move drew immediate criticism from foreign observers, who argued that the court was too closely aligned with the government to conduct an independent review.<\/p>\n Supreme Court justices are nominated by federal officials and ratified by the National Assembly, Venezuela's unicameral legislature, which is dominated by Maduro supporters.<\/p>\n The court ruled on 22 August that the results published by the opposition were false and ratified Maduro's victory. The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela refused to publish its copies of the records.<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez, who represented the opposition coalition Unitary Platform, was summoned to the prosecutor's office last Friday, in a move slammed by Machado.<\/p>\n She has accused them of flouting due process guarantees and accused Attorney General Tarek William Saab, a long-time Maduro ally, of being a \"political accuser\" who \"condemns in advance\".<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez refused the summons to the interview, arguing that they did not specify the condition under which he was expected to appear, among other reasons.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725339945,"updatedAt":1725356149,"publishedAt":1725356146,"firstPublishedAt":1725356146,"lastPublishedAt":1725356146,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/82\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_02bf4d5e-a44a-5855-9f6c-47f6ffa11aca-8698214.jpg","altText":"Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez leads a demonstration against the official election results that declared that President Nicolas Maduro won reelection.","caption":"Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez leads a demonstration against the official election results that declared that President Nicolas Maduro won reelection.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Cristian Hernandez\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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Then, before a crowd, she said it was the moment \u201cthat every vote is respected\u201d.\n\n\u201cLet the world and everyone in Venezuela recognise that the president-elect is Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez,\u201d she said while being applauded by thousands of cheering supporters. \n\nEarlier, Gonz\u00e1lez, the opposition candidate, wrote on his X account: \u201cThey will not be able to cover up the reality of 28 July: we won resoundingly.\u201d He didn't show up at the demonstration in Caracas.\n\nIn Mexico City\u2019s Monument to the Revolution downtown, hundreds of people young and old alike loudly repeated the chants for \u201cFreedom! Freedom!\u201d that dominated the opposition\u2019s rallies ahead of the election. \u201cMaduro out! Maduro out!\u201d they then screamed as motorists going by honked their horns.\n\n\u201cWhat is happening right now is that Venezuela woke up ... so much so that the government doesn\u2019t dare to show the tally sheets,\u201d Antonia Imbernon said, referring to the voting results documents that are considered the ultimate proof of results. \u201cWhat are they afraid of?\u201d\n\nVenezuela\u2019s National Electoral Council, whose members are loyal to the ruling party, declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 election hours after polls closed. Unlike previous presidential elections, the electoral body has not released the tally sheets\u2019 detailed voting data to back up its claim that Maduro earned 6.4 million votes while Gonz\u00e1lez, who represented the Unitary Platform opposition coalition, garnered 5.3 million.\n\nBut Gonz\u00e1lez and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado shocked Venezuelans when they revealed they obtained more than 80% of the vote tally sheets issued by every electronic voting machine after polls closed. The documents, they said, showed Gonz\u00e1lez winning by a wide margin and were uploaded to a website for anyone to see.\n\nMachado urged supporters to print the tally sheet from their voting station and take it to Saturday\u2019s demonstrations. In Mexico City, some held signs reproaching the decision by Mexico\u2019s government to not participate in a Friday hearing of the Organization of American States focused on Venezuela\u2019s election crisis.\n\n\u201cMexico, we missed you at the OEA,\u201d a sign stated using the acronym in Spanish for the regional body.\n\nThe opposition has consistently expressed the need for the international community\u2019s help to get Maduro to accept the unfavourable results of the election.\n\n\u201cThe derision is worse this time because there is proof; anyone can see them,\u201d said Janett Hurtado, 57, who left Venezuela two years ago, referring to the tally sheets. \u201c(The government) took away other elections from us again.\u201d\n\nHurtado said she has noticed Venezuelans\u2019 fear of speaking out against Maduro following the widespread arrests across the South American country in connection with protests sparked by the election results. She said she has friends who have not sent her a single text message since then.\n\nSecurity forces have rounded up more than 2,000 people for demonstrating against Maduro or casting doubt on his claim he won a third term despite strong evidence he lost the vote by a more than 2-to-1 margin. \n\nAnother 24 have been killed, according to Venezuela-based human rights group Provea.\n\nThe spree of detentions \u2014 urged on by Maduro himself \u2014 is unprecedented, and puts Venezuela on pace to easily exceed those jailed during three previous crackdowns against Maduro\u2019s opponents.\n\nThose arrested include journalists, political leaders, campaign staffers and an attorney defending protesters. Others have had their Venezuelan passports annulled trying to leave the country. One local activist even livestreamed her arrest by military intelligence officers as they broke into her home with a crowbar.\n\n\u201cIt pains us to see what\u2019s happening,\u201d said Hurtado\u2019s daughter, Veronica Guedez, 19. \u201cWe are here to support us as brothers and sisters.\u201d\n\nThe opposition was dealt a blow Thursday when Brazil and Colombia \u2014 countries that had been pressuring Maduro to release vote tallies backing his claim to victory \u2014 began suggesting a repeat of the contest instead. But Machado categorically rejected any plan to redo the election, and she said that it would be \u201can insult\u201d to the people.\n\n","htmlText":" Venezuelans across the world have responded to a call from their country\u2019s political opposition and taken to the streets to defend the faction\u2019s claim to victory over President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in last month\u2019s disputed presidential election.<\/p>\n The demonstrations in Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City and several other places were an effort by the main opposition coalition to make visible what they insist is the real outcome of the election. <\/p>\n Protesters also called on governments to throw their support behind candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez and express support to Venezuelans who are fearful in their home country of speaking against Maduro and his allies amid a brutal repression campaign.<\/p>\n As thousands of Venezuelans waved the national flag, opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado made her way through the streets of Caracas on a truck while shouting \u201ccourage\u201d and \u201cfreedom\u201d. Then, before a crowd, she said it was the moment \u201cthat every vote is respected\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLet the world and everyone in Venezuela recognise that the president-elect is Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez,\u201d she said while being applauded by thousands of cheering supporters. <\/p>\n Earlier, Gonz\u00e1lez, the opposition candidate, wrote on his X account: \u201cThey will not be able to cover up the reality of 28 July: we won resoundingly.\u201d He didn't show up at the demonstration in Caracas.<\/p>\n In Mexico City\u2019s Monument to the Revolution downtown, hundreds of people young and old alike loudly repeated the chants for \u201cFreedom! Freedom!\u201d that dominated the opposition\u2019s rallies ahead of the election. \u201cMaduro out! Maduro out!\u201d they then screamed as motorists going by honked their horns.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is happening right now is that Venezuela woke up ... so much so that the government doesn\u2019t dare to show the tally sheets,\u201d Antonia Imbernon said, referring to the voting results documents that are considered the ultimate proof of results. \u201cWhat are they afraid of?\u201d<\/p>\n Venezuela\u2019s National Electoral Council, whose members are loyal to the ruling party, declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 election hours after polls closed. Unlike previous presidential elections, the electoral body has not released the tally sheets\u2019 detailed voting data to back up its claim that Maduro earned 6.4 million votes while Gonz\u00e1lez, who represented the Unitary Platform opposition coalition, garnered 5.3 million.<\/p>\n But Gonz\u00e1lez and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado shocked Venezuelans when they revealed they obtained more than 80% of the vote tally sheets issued by every electronic voting machine after polls closed. The documents, they said, showed Gonz\u00e1lez winning by a wide margin and were uploaded to a website for anyone to see.<\/p>\n Machado urged supporters to print the tally sheet from their voting station and take it to Saturday\u2019s demonstrations. In Mexico City, some held signs reproaching the decision by Mexico\u2019s government to not participate in a Friday hearing of the Organization of American States focused on Venezuela\u2019s election crisis.<\/p>\n \u201cMexico, we missed you at the OEA,\u201d a sign stated using the acronym in Spanish for the regional body.<\/p>\n The opposition has consistently expressed the need for the international community\u2019s help to get Maduro to accept the unfavourable results of the election.<\/p>\n \u201cThe derision is worse this time because there is proof; anyone can see them,\u201d said Janett Hurtado, 57, who left Venezuela two years ago, referring to the tally sheets. \u201c(The government) took away other elections from us again.\u201d<\/p>\n Hurtado said she has noticed Venezuelans\u2019 fear of speaking out against Maduro following the widespread arrests across the South American country in connection with protests sparked by the election results. She said she has friends who have not sent her a single text message since then.<\/p>\n Security forces have rounded up more than 2,000 people for demonstrating against Maduro or casting doubt on his claim he won a third term despite strong evidence he lost the vote by a more than 2-to-1 margin. <\/p>\n Another 24 have been killed, according to Venezuela-based human rights group Provea.<\/p>\n The spree of detentions \u2014 urged on by Maduro himself \u2014 is unprecedented, and puts Venezuela on pace to easily exceed those jailed during three previous crackdowns against Maduro\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n Those arrested include journalists, political leaders, campaign staffers and an attorney defending protesters. Others have had their Venezuelan passports annulled trying to leave the country. One local activist even livestreamed her arrest by military intelligence officers as they broke into her home with a crowbar.<\/p>\n \u201cIt pains us to see what\u2019s happening,\u201d said Hurtado\u2019s daughter, Veronica Guedez, 19. \u201cWe are here to support us as brothers and sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n The opposition was dealt a blow Thursday when Brazil and Colombia \u2014 countries that had been pressuring Maduro to release vote tallies backing his claim to victory \u2014 began suggesting a repeat of the contest instead. But Machado categorically rejected any plan to redo the election, and she said that it would be \u201can insult\u201d to the people.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1723974443,"updatedAt":1723993564,"publishedAt":1723977390,"firstPublishedAt":1723977390,"lastPublishedAt":1723993219,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/98\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d0c45f40-9984-5973-b858-dac546d4d276-8659864.jpg","altText":"Venezuelan nationals protest against results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 17th 2024","caption":"Venezuelan nationals protest against results that declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the July presidential election, in Mexico City, Saturday, Aug. 17th 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Aurea Del Rosario\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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VENEZUELA REPRESSION UPDATE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Maduro calls EU request to verify Venezuela's election result a 'disgrace'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Venezuela elections: Maduro calls EU request a 'disgrace'","titleListing2":"#Maduro calls #EU's request to verify #Venezuela's election results a 'disgrace'.","leadin":"Representatives from the European Union and world leaders have cast doubt on Venezuela's official declaration that President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro won last Sunday's election.","summary":"Representatives from the European Union and world leaders have cast doubt on Venezuela's official declaration that President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro won last Sunday's election.","keySentence":"","url":"maduro-calls-eu-request-to-verify-venezuelas-election-result-a-disgrace","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/08\/05\/maduro-calls-eu-request-to-verify-venezuelas-election-result-a-disgrace","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As protests continue in Venezuela, the European Union and several world leaders have called for further verification of the results. \n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the EU said reports from international election observation missions show that the elections \"did not meet international standards of electoral integrity\".\n\nThe statement has come as a bitter pill to swallow for Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who lashed out at the European institutions and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.\n\n\"The European Union brings out its cantaleta, the same European Union that recognised (Juan) Guaid\u00f3, shame on the European Union, Mr Borrell is a disgrace, he is a disgrace who led Ukraine to war and now washes his hands of it,\" Maduro declared.\n\nBorrell responded to the accusations in a post on X on Monday, saying the EU cannot recognise Venezuela' s election results \"without evidence to back them up\".\n\nAmong the world's voices who have cast doubt on the results is former Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner, traditionally a political ally of Chavismo \u2014 the political movement Maduro champions. \n\nOn Saturday the 71-year-old said the electoral records should be published \"for the very legacy of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\" \u2014 Venezuela's influential former president. \n\nKircher words have also been met with fury by the Venezuelan government, with Vice President of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) indirectly accusing her of \"betraying the legacy of Kirchner, Per\u00f3n and the people\". \n\nMore than 2,000 arrested during protests\n\nPolitical tension in Venezuela has reached a critical point following the 28 July elections. Maduro's government has yet to present official results to back up its alleged victory and thousands of Venezuelans have denounced irregularities in the electoral process.\n\nSo far at least 2,000 people have been arrested in the country for allegedly burning polling stations and regional headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE), according to the government. \n\nMaduro has doubled down on arresting protesters, saying this weekend that, \"there will be no forgiveness\" and that \"maximum punishment\" will be imposed on those detained.\n\nThe president has threatened to arrest opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and her picked presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. \n\nThe 61-year-old criticised Gonz\u00e1lez's absence from the hearing of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), to which all those who had stood in the 28 July elections were summoned.\n\nThe pair have since gone into hiding, saying they fear they will be arrested or killed. \n\n","htmlText":" As protests continue in Venezuela, the European Union and several world leaders have called for further verification of the results. <\/p>\n In a statement on Sunday, the EU said reports from international election observation missions show that the elections \"did not meet international standards of electoral integrity\".<\/p>\n The statement has come as a bitter pill to swallow for Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who lashed out at the European institutions and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell.<\/p>\n \"The European Union brings out its cantaleta, the same European Union that recognised (Juan) Guaid\u00f3, shame on the European Union, Mr Borrell is a disgrace, he is a disgrace who led Ukraine to war and now washes his hands of it,\" Maduro declared.<\/p>\n Borrell responded to the accusations in a post on X on Monday, saying the EU cannot recognise Venezuela' s election results \"without evidence to back them up\".<\/p>\n Among the world's voices who have cast doubt on the results is former Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner, traditionally a political ally of Chavismo \u2014 the political movement Maduro champions. <\/p>\n On Saturday the 71-year-old said the electoral records should be published \"for the very legacy of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\" \u2014 Venezuela's influential former president. <\/p>\n Kircher words have also been met with fury by the Venezuelan government, with Vice President of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) indirectly accusing her of \"betraying the legacy of Kirchner, Per\u00f3n and the people\". <\/p>\n Political tension in Venezuela has reached a critical point following the 28 July elections. Maduro's government has yet to present official results to back up its alleged victory and thousands of Venezuelans have denounced irregularities in the electoral process.<\/p>\n So far at least 2,000 people have been arrested in the country for allegedly burning polling stations and regional headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE), according to the government. <\/p>\n Maduro has doubled down on arresting protesters, saying this weekend that, \"there will be no forgiveness\" and that \"maximum punishment\" will be imposed on those detained.<\/p>\n The president has threatened to arrest opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and her picked presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. <\/p>\n The 61-year-old criticised Gonz\u00e1lez's absence from the hearing of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), to which all those who had stood in the 28 July elections were summoned.<\/p>\n The pair have since gone into hiding, saying they fear they will be arrested or killed. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1722835676,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1722862048,"firstPublishedAt":1722862048,"lastPublishedAt":1722862048,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/62\/92\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c66ca16b-3243-5967-98ab-df2923c996fa-8629224.jpg","altText":"President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters during a government rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024.","caption":"President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters during a government rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Matias Delacroix\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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RALLIES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Venezuela opposition leader joins rally calling for overturning election results","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Thousands of Venezuelan opposition supporters rally in capital","titleListing2":"Venezuela opposition leader joins rally calling for overturning election results","leadin":"Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela's capital Saturday to support an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.","summary":"Thousands of people rallied in the streets of Venezuela's capital Saturday to support an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a 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He has also threatened to lock up opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado and her hand-picked presidential candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez.\u00a0\n\nSupporters chanted and sang as Machado arrived at the rally in Caracas on Saturday. \u00a0\n\nMachado, who Maduro's government has barred from running for office for 15 years, had been in hiding since Tuesday, saying her life and freedom are at risk.\u00a0\n\nMasked assailants ransacked the opposition's headquarters on Friday, taking documents and vandalising the space.\u00a0\n\nMaduro held a Venezuela flag aloft on Saturday and promised that the government whose policies have forces million to emigrate was finally coming to an end.\u00a0\n\n\"We have already won the election. Now comes a new stage. We knew that just as it took us a long time to achieve the electoral victory, now comes a stage that we live day by day. But we have never been as strong as we are today. Never has the regime been as weak as it is today,\" said Machado before thousands of supporters.\u00a0\n\nWhen the rally ended, Machado was given a nondescript shirt and whisked away on the back of a motorcycle.\u00a0\n\nGonz\u00e1lez, who remains in hiding, was not seen at the event.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":" Thousands rallied in the streets of Venezuela\u2019s capital on Saturday to support opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, who they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.\u00a0<\/p>\n Authorities have declared President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro the winner of last Sunday\u2019s national elections in Venezuela but have yet to produce voting tallies to confirm his win.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maduro\u2019s government arrested hundreds of opposition supporters who had taken to the streets in the days after the disputed poll. He has also threatened to lock up opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado and her hand-picked presidential candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez.\u00a0<\/p>\n Supporters chanted and sang as Machado arrived at the rally in Caracas on Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n Machado, who Maduro's government has barred from running for office for 15 years, had been in hiding since Tuesday, saying her life and freedom are at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n Masked assailants ransacked the opposition's headquarters on Friday, taking documents and vandalising the space.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maduro held a Venezuela flag aloft on Saturday and promised that the government whose policies have forces million to emigrate was finally coming to an end.\u00a0<\/p>\n \"We have already won the election. Now comes a new stage. We knew that just as it took us a long time to achieve the electoral victory, now comes a stage that we live day by day. But we have never been as strong as we are today. Never has the regime been as weak as it is today,\" said Machado before thousands of supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n When the rally ended, Machado was given a nondescript shirt and whisked away on the back of a motorcycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez, who remains in hiding, was not seen at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1722727942,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1722728849,"firstPublishedAt":1722728849,"lastPublishedAt":1722755041,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/62\/74\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0f45e430-de31-5f28-bc2b-69d760d4a2ed-8627430.jpg","altText":"Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a national flag while waving to supporters as she arrives for a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024","caption":"Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a national flag while waving to supporters as she arrives for a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Matias Delacroix\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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ELECTIONS UPDATE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Venezuela election results remain unverified as tensions rise","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Venezuela election results remain unverified as tensions rise","titleListing2":"Venezuela election results remain unverified as tensions rise","leadin":"The US-based Carter Centre expressed concerns over the validity of incumbent president Nicolas Maduro's apparent win.","summary":"The US-based Carter Centre expressed concerns over the validity of incumbent president Nicolas Maduro's apparent win.","keySentence":"","url":"venezuela-election-results-remain-unverified-as-tensions-rise","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/07\/31\/venezuela-election-results-remain-unverified-as-tensions-rise","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"US organisation The Carter Centre, which works to advance democracy and human rights, has announced it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela's controversial presidential election.\n\nThe body blamed authorities for a \u201ccomplete lack of transparency\u201d in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies.\n\nThe statement given on Tuesday night by the Atlanta-based group is perhaps the harshest rebuke yet of Venezuela's chaotic election process - not least because it comes from one of just a handful of outside groups invited by the Maduro government to observe the vote.\n\n\u201cThe electoral authority\u2019s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles,\u201d the Carter Centre said. The group, which had a technical mission of 17 experts spread out in four cities across Venezuela, added that the election did not meet international standards and \u201ccannot be considered democratic.\u201d\n\nThe Carter Centre's harsh criticism capped a second long day of protests against the results by opponents of Maduro who said their candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, trounced the incumbent by a more than two-to-one margin. \n\nMaduro's government hasn't taken lightly to the criticism and ratcheted up their attacks on their opponents on Tuesday, with some allies suggesting the opposition's most influential leader and a presidential candidate be arrested.\n\nA day after Maduro was declared the winner by a National Electoral Council that is loyal to him and the ruling party, the attacks followed the opposition\u2019s surprise release of detailed voting data that it said shows that Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez won by a landslide.\n\nThe electoral council has not released any results from the polling centre level, which come from tally sheets that the more than 30,000 electronic voting machines print after polls close.\u00a0\n\nIt is not obligated to do so, but in previous elections, it has posted the figures online within hours.\n\nUnited States President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva spoke by phone and agreed that Venezuela must release the data, saying the election's outcome \u201crepresents a critical moment for democracy in the hemisphere,\u201d according to a White House summary of the call.\n\nBiden and Lula da Silva \u201cagreed on the need for immediate release of full, transparent, and detailed voting data at the polling station level by the Venezuelan electoral authorities,\u201d it added.\n\nVenezuela has the world\u2019s largest proven crude reserves and once boasted Latin America\u2019s most advanced economy, but it entered into free fall after Maduro took the helm in 2013. Plummeting oil prices, widespread shortages and hyperinflation that soared past 130,000% led to social unrest and mass emigration.\n\nMore than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America\u2019s recent history.\n\nAs both sides defended their claim to victory, thousands of their supporters took to the streets of the capital, Caracas.\n\nA huge crowd of opposition supporters gathered outside the United Nations offices. Opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado, standing atop a truck, called on the National Electoral Council to release the tally sheets, saying, \u201cWhy don\u2019t they publish them?\u201d\n\nMachado said the main opposition coalition has obtained more than 84% of the tally sheets, which show Gonz\u00e1lez garnered more than twice as many votes as Maduro.\n\n\u201cThe only thing we are willing to negotiate is the peaceful transition,\u201d Machado said, as the crowd chanted: \u201cWe have no fear!\u201d\n\nOpposition supporters elsewhere in the city were met with tear gas Tuesday.\n\nAttorney General Tarek William Saab told reporters that more than 700 protesters were arrested in nationwide demonstrations Monday. He added that one officer was killed.\n\nMachado and Gonz\u00e1lez both urged their supporters to remain calm and avoid violence.\n\nNevertheless, long lines of residents started to build Tuesday outside supermarkets and other stores in Caracas in apparent anticipation of a prolonged period of demonstrations that could lead to food shortages.\n\nUnited Nations Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk expressed alarm over the post-election climate.\n\n\u201cHundreds of people have been arrested, including children. This troubles me deeply,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI am alarmed by reports of disproportionate use of force by law enforcement officials along with violence by armed individuals supporting the Government.\u201d\n\nIn the port city of La Guaira, people toppled a statue of Maduro\u2019s mentor and predecessor, the late Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, dragged it to the street and set it on fire during Monday\u2019s protests. Maduro unveiled the statue in 2017 and by Tuesday all that remained was its base, littered with twisted rebar and broken cement.\n\nThe election was among the most peaceful in recent memory, reflecting hopes that Venezuela could avoid bloodshed and end 25 years of single-party rule. The winner would take control of an economy recovering from collapse and a population desperate for change.\n\n","htmlText":" US organisation The Carter Centre, which works to advance democracy and human rights, has announced it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela's controversial presidential election.<\/p>\n The body blamed authorities for a \u201ccomplete lack of transparency\u201d in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies.<\/p>\n The statement given on Tuesday night by the Atlanta-based group is perhaps the harshest rebuke yet of Venezuela's chaotic election process - not least because it comes from one of just a handful of outside groups invited by the Maduro government to observe the vote.<\/p>\n \u201cThe electoral authority\u2019s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles,\u201d the Carter Centre said. The group, which had a technical mission of 17 experts spread out in four cities across Venezuela, added that the election did not meet international standards and \u201ccannot be considered democratic.\u201d<\/p>\n The Carter Centre's harsh criticism capped a second long day of protests against the results by opponents of Maduro who said their candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, trounced the incumbent by a more than two-to-one margin. <\/p>\n Maduro's government hasn't taken lightly to the criticism and ratcheted up their attacks on their opponents on Tuesday, with some allies suggesting the opposition's most influential leader and a presidential candidate be arrested.<\/p>\n A day after Maduro was declared the winner by a National Electoral Council that is loyal to him and the ruling party, the attacks followed the opposition\u2019s surprise release of detailed voting data that it said shows that Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez won by a landslide.<\/p>\n The electoral council has not released any results from the polling centre level, which come from tally sheets that the more than 30,000 electronic voting machines print after polls close.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is not obligated to do so, but in previous elections, it has posted the figures online within hours.<\/p>\n United States President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva spoke by phone and agreed that Venezuela must release the data, saying the election's outcome \u201crepresents a critical moment for democracy in the hemisphere,\u201d according to a White House summary of the call.<\/p>\n Biden and Lula da Silva \u201cagreed on the need for immediate release of full, transparent, and detailed voting data at the polling station level by the Venezuelan electoral authorities,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Venezuela has the world\u2019s largest proven crude reserves and once boasted Latin America\u2019s most advanced economy, but it entered into free fall after Maduro took the helm in 2013. Plummeting oil prices, widespread shortages and hyperinflation that soared past 130,000% led to social unrest and mass emigration.<\/p>\n More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America\u2019s recent history.<\/p>\n As both sides defended their claim to victory, thousands of their supporters took to the streets of the capital, Caracas.<\/p>\n A huge crowd of opposition supporters gathered outside the United Nations offices. Opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado, standing atop a truck, called on the National Electoral Council to release the tally sheets, saying, \u201cWhy don\u2019t they publish them?\u201d<\/p>\n Machado said the main opposition coalition has obtained more than 84% of the tally sheets, which show Gonz\u00e1lez garnered more than twice as many votes as Maduro.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing we are willing to negotiate is the peaceful transition,\u201d Machado said, as the crowd chanted: \u201cWe have no fear!\u201d<\/p>\n Opposition supporters elsewhere in the city were met with tear gas Tuesday.<\/p>\n Attorney General Tarek William Saab told reporters that more than 700 protesters were arrested in nationwide demonstrations Monday. He added that one officer was killed.<\/p>\n Machado and Gonz\u00e1lez both urged their supporters to remain calm and avoid violence.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, long lines of residents started to build Tuesday outside supermarkets and other stores in Caracas in apparent anticipation of a prolonged period of demonstrations that could lead to food shortages.<\/p>\n United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk expressed alarm over the post-election climate.<\/p>\n \u201cHundreds of people have been arrested, including children. This troubles me deeply,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI am alarmed by reports of disproportionate use of force by law enforcement officials along with violence by armed individuals supporting the Government.\u201d<\/p>\n In the port city of La Guaira, people toppled a statue of Maduro\u2019s mentor and predecessor, the late Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, dragged it to the street and set it on fire during Monday\u2019s protests. Maduro unveiled the statue in 2017 and by Tuesday all that remained was its base, littered with twisted rebar and broken cement.<\/p>\n The election was among the most peaceful in recent memory, reflecting hopes that Venezuela could avoid bloodshed and end 25 years of single-party rule. 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The difference was so big, the difference was overwhelming,\" she added.\n\nTheir announcement came after the National Electoral Council, which is loyal to Maduro\u2019s ruling Unites Socialist Party of Venezuela, officially declared him the winner, handing him his third six-year term.\n\nThe National Electoral Council, which is loyal to the ruling party, said Maduro secured 51% of the vote while Gonz\u00e1lez garnered 44%. \n\nThe announcement came as thousands of people across Venezuela protested against the official election result.\n\nIn the capital, Caracas, the protests were mostly peaceful, but when dozens of riot gear-clad national police officers blocked the caravan, a brawl broke out. \n\nPolice used tear gas to disperse the protesters, some of whom threw stones and other objects at officers who had stationed themselves on a main avenue of an upper-class district.\n\nA man fired a gun as the protesters moved through the city's financial district. 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The difference was so big, the difference was overwhelming,\" she added.<\/p>\n Their announcement came after the National Electoral Council, which is loyal to Maduro\u2019s ruling Unites Socialist Party of Venezuela, officially declared him the winner, handing him his third six-year term.<\/p>\n The National Electoral Council, which is loyal to the ruling party, said Maduro secured 51% of the vote while Gonz\u00e1lez garnered 44%. <\/p>\n The announcement came as thousands of people across Venezuela protested against the official election result.<\/p>\n In the capital, Caracas, the protests were mostly peaceful, but when dozens of riot gear-clad national police officers blocked the caravan, a brawl broke out. <\/p>\n Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters, some of whom threw stones and other objects at officers who had stationed themselves on a main avenue of an upper-class district.<\/p>\n A man fired a gun as the protesters moved through the city's financial district. 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challenge the results after claiming it had data for only 30% of the ballot boxes.\n\nThe delay in announcing results - six hours after polls were supposed to close - indicated a deep debate inside the government about how to proceed after Maduro\u2019s opponents came out early in the evening all but claiming victory.\n\nOpposition representatives said tallies they collected from campaign representatives at the polling stations showed Gonz\u00e1lez trouncing Maduro. Meanwhile, the head of the electoral council said it would release the official voting acts in the coming hours.\n\nMaduro, in seeking a third term, faced his toughest challenge yet from the unlikeliest of opponents in Gonz\u00e1lez: a retired diplomat who was unknown to voters before being picked in April as a last-minute stand-in for opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado.\n\nUS Vice President Kamala Harris offered her support for \u201cThe United States stands with the people of Venezuela who expressed their voice in today\u2019s historic presidential election,\u201d Harris wrote on the social media platform X - previously Twitter, \u201cThe will of the Venezuelan people must be respected.\"\n\nThe election will have ripple effects throughout the Americas, with government opponents and supporters alike signalling their interest in joining the exodus of 7.7 million Venezuelans who have already left their homes for opportunities abroad should Maduro win another six year term.\n\nMaduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela, though, are more unpopular than ever among many voters who blame his policies for crushing wages, spurring hunger, crippling the oil industry and separating families due to migration.\n\nSunday's ballot also featured eight other candidates challenging Maduro, but only Gonz\u00e1lez threatened Maduro's rule.\n\nAfter voting, Maduro said he would recognise the election result and urged all other candidates to publicly declare that they would do the same.\n\n\u201cNo one is going to create chaos in Venezuela,\u201d Maduro said. \u201cI recognise and will recognise the electoral referee, the official announcements and I will make sure they are recognised.\u201d\n\nVenezuela sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, and once boasted Latin America's most advanced economy - but it entered into a free fall after Maduro took the helm.\u00a0\n\nPlummeting oil prices, widespread shortages and hyperinflation that soared past 130,000% led first to social unrest and then mass emigration.\n\nEconomic sanctions from the US seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 reelection - which the US and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate - only deepened the crisis.\n\nMaduro's pitch to voters in this election was one of economic security, which he tried to sell with stories of entrepreneurship and references to a stable currency exchange and lower inflation rates.\u00a0\n\nBut most Venezuelans have not seen any improvement in their quality of life with many families struggling to afford essential items.\n\nThe opposition has tried to seize on the huge inequalities arising from the crisis, during which Venezuelans abandoned their country's currency, the bolivar, for the US dollar.\n\nGonz\u00e1lez and Machado focused much of their campaigning on Venezuela\u2019s vast hinterland, where the economic activity seen in the capital Caracas in recent years didn't materialise. They promised a government that would create sufficient jobs to attract Venezuelans living abroad to return home and reunite with their families.\n\n","htmlText":" Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has been declared as the winner in Venezuela\u2019s presidential election, even as his opponents were preparing to dispute the results.<\/p>\n That decision sets up a high-stakes showdown that will determine whether the South American nation transitions away from one party rule.<\/p>\n Shortly after midnight on Sunday, the National Electoral Council said Maduro secured 51% of the vote, overcoming the main opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, who garnered 44%.<\/p>\n However, the electoral authority, which is controlled by Maduro loyalists, didn't immediately release the tallies from each of the 30,000 polling booths nationwide - hampering the opposition\u2019s ability to challenge the results after claiming it had data for only 30% of the ballot boxes.<\/p>\n The delay in announcing results - six hours after polls were supposed to close - indicated a deep debate inside the government about how to proceed after Maduro\u2019s opponents came out early in the evening all but claiming victory.<\/p>\n Opposition representatives said tallies they collected from campaign representatives at the polling stations showed Gonz\u00e1lez trouncing Maduro. Meanwhile, the head of the electoral council said it would release the official voting acts in the coming hours.<\/p>\n Maduro, in seeking a third term, faced his toughest challenge yet from the unlikeliest of opponents in Gonz\u00e1lez: a retired diplomat who was unknown to voters before being picked in April as a last-minute stand-in for opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado.<\/p>\n US Vice President Kamala Harris offered her support for \u201cThe United States stands with the people of Venezuela who expressed their voice in today\u2019s historic presidential election,\u201d Harris wrote on the social media platform X - previously Twitter, \u201cThe will of the Venezuelan people must be respected.\"<\/p>\n The election will have ripple effects throughout the Americas, with government opponents and supporters alike signalling their interest in joining the exodus of 7.7 million Venezuelans who have already left their homes for opportunities abroad should Maduro win another six year term.<\/p>\n Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela, though, are more unpopular than ever among many voters who blame his policies for crushing wages, spurring hunger, crippling the oil industry and separating families due to migration.<\/p>\n Sunday's ballot also featured eight other candidates challenging Maduro, but only Gonz\u00e1lez threatened Maduro's rule.<\/p>\n After voting, Maduro said he would recognise the election result and urged all other candidates to publicly declare that they would do the same.<\/p>\n \u201cNo one is going to create chaos in Venezuela,\u201d Maduro said. \u201cI recognise and will recognise the electoral referee, the official announcements and I will make sure they are recognised.\u201d<\/p>\n Venezuela sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, and once boasted Latin America's most advanced economy - but it entered into a free fall after Maduro took the helm.\u00a0<\/p>\n Plummeting oil prices, widespread shortages and hyperinflation that soared past 130,000% led first to social unrest and then mass emigration.<\/p>\n Economic sanctions from the US seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 reelection - which the US and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate - only deepened the crisis.<\/p>\n Maduro's pitch to voters in this election was one of economic security, which he tried to sell with stories of entrepreneurship and references to a stable currency exchange and lower inflation rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n But most Venezuelans have not seen any improvement in their quality of life with many families struggling to afford essential items.<\/p>\n The opposition has tried to seize on the huge inequalities arising from the crisis, during which Venezuelans abandoned their country's currency, the bolivar, for the US dollar.<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez and Machado focused much of their campaigning on Venezuela\u2019s vast hinterland, where the economic activity seen in the capital Caracas in recent years didn't materialise. They promised a government that would create sufficient jobs to attract Venezuelans living abroad to return home and reunite with their families.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1722228534,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1722233315,"firstPublishedAt":1722233315,"lastPublishedAt":1722233315,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/61\/19\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0ca631bf-4ede-5bf4-930b-e832737e1ea4-8611996.jpg","altText":"President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday","caption":"President Nicolas Maduro addresses supporters after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Fernando 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voting Sunday in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world\u2019s worst peacetime economic collapse.\n\nWhether it is left-wing President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro who is chosen, or his main opponent, retired diplomat Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, the election will have ripple effects throughout the Americas. \n\nPolls opened at 6 a.m. local time. The number of eligible voters is estimated to be around 17 million.\n\nAuthorities set Sunday's election to coincide with what would have been the 70th birthday of former President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, the revered leftist firebrand who died of cancer in 2013, leaving his Bolivarian revolution in the hands of Maduro. \n\nYet, Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela are more unpopular than ever among many voters who blame his policies for crushing wages, spurring hunger, crippling the oil industry and separating families due to migration.\n\nMaduro, 61, is facing off against an opposition that has managed to line up behind a single candidate after years of intraparty divisions and election boycotts that torpedoed their ambitions to topple the ruling party.\n\nGonz\u00e1lez is representing a coalition of opposition parties after being selected in April as a last-minute stand-in for opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado, who was blocked by the Maduro-controlled Supreme Tribunal of Justice from running for any office for 15 years.\n\nMachado, a former lawmaker, swept the opposition's October primary with over 90% of the vote. After she was blocked from joining the presidential race, she chose a college professor as her substitute on the ballot, but the National Electoral Council also barred her from registering. That's when Gonz\u00e1lez, a political newcomer, was chosen.\n\nSunday's ballot also features eight other candidates challenging Maduro, but only Gonz\u00e1lez threatens the governing rule.\n\nVenezuela sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, and once boasted Latin America's most advanced economy. But it entered into a free fall after Maduro took the helm. Plummeting oil prices, widespread shortages and hyperinflation that soared past 130,000% led first to social unrest and then mass emigration.\n\nSanctions from US President Donald Trump's administration seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 re-election \u2014 which the US and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate \u2014 only deepened the crisis.\n\nIn recent days, Maduro has crisscrossed Venezuela, inaugurating hospital wards and highways and visiting rural areas where he had not set foot in years. His pitch to voters is one of economic security, which he underscores with stories of entrepreneurship and references to a stable currency exchange and lower inflation rates.\n\nThe capital, Caracas, saw an increase in commercial activity after the pandemic, bolstering an economy the International Monetary Fund forecasts will grow 4% this year \u2014 one of the fastest in Latin America \u2014 after having shrunk 71% from 2012 to 2020.\n\nBut most Venezuelans have not seen any improvement in their quality of life. Many earn under $200 a month, which means families struggle to afford essential items. Some work second and third jobs. A basket of basic staples \u2014 sufficient to feed of family of four for a month \u2014 costs an estimated $385.\n\nThe opposition has tried to seize on the huge inequities arising from the crisis, during which Venezuelans abandoned their country's currency, the bolivar, for the US dollar.\n\nGonz\u00e1lez and Machado focused much of their campaigning on Venezuela\u2019s vast hinterland, where the economic activity seen in Caracas in recent years didn't materialise. They promised a government that would create sufficient jobs to attract Venezuelans living abroad to return home and reunite with their families.\n\nAn April poll by Caracas-based Delphos said about a quarter of Venezuelans were thinking about emigrating if Maduro wins Sunday. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.\n\nMost Venezuelans who migrated over the past 11 years settled in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent years, many began setting their sights on the US.\n\n","htmlText":" Polls have opened in Venezuela, where people are voting Sunday in a presidential election<\/a> whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world\u2019s worst peacetime economic collapse.<\/p>\n Whether it is left-wing President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro who is chosen, or his main opponent, retired diplomat Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, the election will have ripple effects throughout the Americas. <\/p>\n Polls opened at 6 a.m. local time. The number of eligible voters is estimated to be around 17 million.<\/p>\n Authorities set Sunday's election to coincide with what would have been the 70th birthday of former President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, the revered leftist firebrand who died of cancer in 2013, leaving his Bolivarian revolution in the hands of Maduro. <\/p>\n Yet, Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela are more unpopular than ever among many voters who blame his policies for crushing wages, spurring hunger, crippling the oil industry and separating families due to migration.<\/p>\n Maduro, 61, is facing off against an opposition that has managed to line up behind a single candidate after years of intraparty divisions and election boycotts that torpedoed their ambitions to topple the ruling party.<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez is representing a coalition of opposition parties after being selected in April as a last-minute stand-in for opposition powerhouse Maria Corina Machado, who was blocked by the Maduro-controlled Supreme Tribunal of Justice from running for any office for 15 years.<\/p>\n Machado, a former lawmaker, swept the opposition's October primary with over 90% of the vote. After she was blocked from joining the presidential race, she chose a college professor as her substitute on the ballot, but the National Electoral Council also barred her from registering. That's when Gonz\u00e1lez, a political newcomer, was chosen.<\/p>\n Sunday's ballot also features eight other candidates challenging Maduro, but only Gonz\u00e1lez threatens the governing rule.<\/p>\n Venezuela sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, and once boasted Latin America's most advanced economy. But it entered into a free fall after Maduro took the helm. Plummeting oil prices, widespread shortages and hyperinflation that soared past 130,000% led first to social unrest and then mass emigration.<\/p>\n Sanctions from US President Donald Trump's administration seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 re-election \u2014 which the US and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate \u2014 only deepened the crisis.<\/p>\n In recent days, Maduro has crisscrossed Venezuela, inaugurating hospital wards and highways and visiting rural areas where he had not set foot in years. His pitch to voters is one of economic security, which he underscores with stories of entrepreneurship and references to a stable currency exchange and lower inflation rates.<\/p>\n The capital, Caracas, saw an increase in commercial activity after the pandemic, bolstering an economy the International Monetary Fund forecasts will grow 4% this year \u2014 one of the fastest in Latin America \u2014 after having shrunk 71% from 2012 to 2020.<\/p>\n But most Venezuelans have not seen any improvement in their quality of life. Many earn under $200 a month, which means families struggle to afford essential items. Some work second and third jobs. A basket of basic staples \u2014 sufficient to feed of family of four for a month \u2014 costs an estimated $385.<\/p>\n The opposition has tried to seize on the huge inequities arising from the crisis, during which Venezuelans abandoned their country's currency, the bolivar, for the US dollar.<\/p>\n Gonz\u00e1lez and Machado focused much of their campaigning on Venezuela\u2019s vast hinterland, where the economic activity seen in Caracas in recent years didn't materialise. They promised a government that would create sufficient jobs to attract Venezuelans living abroad to return home and reunite with their families.<\/p>\n An April poll by Caracas-based Delphos said about a quarter of Venezuelans were thinking about emigrating if Maduro wins Sunday. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.<\/p>\n Most Venezuelans who migrated over the past 11 years settled in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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The EU had not yet accepted the invite that was extended earlier this year. \n\nAmoroso said Tuesday's decision is intended to show that EU representatives \"are not welcome to come here to our country while the genocidal sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and especially its government, are maintained.\" \n\nThe bloc, however, only maintains sanctions against more than 50 Venezuelans accused of acts of repression or efforts to undermine democracy, but not against the government as a whole. \n\nThe announcement came two weeks after the EU temporarily lifted sanctions against four officials linked to the electoral body, including Amoroso, in recognition of the steps taken ahead of the July 28 election. But the relief was vehemently rejected by Venezuela's government and Amoroso, who argued it was selective and insufficient. \n\nAn EU statement called on the National Electoral Council to reconsider its decision. \n\n\"The Venezuelan people should be able to choose their next president in credible, transparent and competitive elections, supported by international observation, including that of the European Union, which has a long and distinguished record of independent and impartial observation,\" said the statement posted on the platform X. \n\nIn 2021, the EU accepted the invitation of Venezuelan officials to send a mission to observe regional elections that included gubernatorial and mayoral races. The mission concluded that the contest happened under better conditions than the country's elections in recent years, but that it was nonetheless marred by the use of public funds to benefit pro-government candidates. \n\nElection anomalies cited by the mission included delays in opening and closing voting centres, disproportionately favourable coverage for the ruling party on state television and the use of free food and other goods as political tools, among others. \n\nVenezuela's electoral body earlier this year set the presidential election for July 28 and extended invitations to various organisations to observe the contest. Those decisions fulfilled some of the provisions of an agreement signed last year between Maduro's government and the US-backed Unitary Platform opposition coalition. \n\nUnder the agreement signed on the Caribbean island of Barbados, both sides vowed to work toward improving conditions for a free and fair election. Still, Venezuela's government continuously tested the limits of the accord, by, among other actions, blocking the candidacy of the president's chief opponent, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado. \n\nMachado, a former lawmaker, won the coalition's October presidential primary with more than 90% of support. But the country's top court in January upheld an administrative decision blocking her candidacy. Her chosen substitute was barred from the ballot, too. \n\nMachado and the coalition are now backing former diplomat Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia. \n\n","htmlText":" Venezuela's electoral authorities on Tuesday revoked an invitation for a European Union mission to observe the country's upcoming presidential election, in which President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro is seeking reelection.<\/p>\n The head of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, cited economic sanctions imposed by the 27-nation bloc as the reason for withdrawing the invitation. The EU had not yet accepted the invite that was extended earlier this year.<\/p>\n Amoroso said Tuesday's decision is intended to show that EU representatives \"are not welcome to come here to our country while the genocidal sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and especially its government, are maintained.\"<\/p>\n The bloc, however, only maintains sanctions against more than 50 Venezuelans accused of acts of repression or efforts to undermine democracy, but not against the government as a whole.<\/p>\n The announcement came two weeks after the EU temporarily lifted sanctions against four officials linked to the electoral body, including Amoroso, in recognition of the steps taken ahead of the July 28 election. But the relief was vehemently rejected by Venezuela's government and Amoroso, who argued it was selective and insufficient.<\/p>\n An EU statement called on the National Electoral Council to reconsider its decision.<\/p>\n \"The Venezuelan people should be able to choose their next president in credible, transparent and competitive elections, supported by international observation, including that of the European Union, which has a long and distinguished record of independent and impartial observation,\" said the statement posted on the platform X.<\/p>\n In 2021, the EU accepted the invitation of Venezuelan officials to send a mission to observe regional elections that included gubernatorial and mayoral races. 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What is the impact of melting ice in the Andes?","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"This country has become the first in modern history to lose all of its glaciers","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Venezuela\u2019s last glacier has disappeared due to climate change","titleListing2":"This country has become the first in modern history to lose all of its glaciers","leadin":"Rising temperatures have made this country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.","summary":"Rising temperatures have made this country the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.","keySentence":"","url":"this-country-has-become-the-first-in-modern-history-to-lose-all-of-its-glaciers","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/05\/10\/this-country-has-become-the-first-in-modern-history-to-lose-all-of-its-glaciers","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Venezuela has lost its last glacier, making it the first nation in modern history to hold this unenviable record. \n\nAt least five other glaciers have disappeared in the South American country within the last century as climate change drives up temperatures in the Andes. The country lost 98 per cent of its glacial area between 1952 and 2019, research shows. \n\nAs of 2011, the Humboldt - also known as La Corona - stood as Venezuela\u2019s last remaining glacier. It has now shrunk so much that climate scientists have reclassified it as an ice field, UK newspaper The Guardian reports. \n\nWhat exactly is a glacier? \n\nGlaciers are thick masses of frozen ice that move slowly downhill under their own weight, eroding the surrounding land. They are formed when snow gets compacted into ice over many centuries. \n\nMost of the planet's ice is stored in the polar regions, but there are glaciers in some mountainous regions of the tropics - primarily in South America. \n\nThe International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), a network of experts and researchers, tweeted this week that the Humboldt has become \u201ctoo small to be classed as a glacier.\u201d \n\nWhile there is no universal standard to determine how large a mass needs to be to count as a glacier , it is widely accepted that they should cover a minimum of 10 hectares. \n\nWhy have Venezuela\u2019s glaciers vanished? \n\nTemperatures are warming faster at the Earth's higher elevations than in lowlands. This has caused Venezuela\u2019s last glacier to decline more quickly than anticipated. \n\nBack in 2019, scientists predicted that the Humboldt could be gone within two decades, but it has already reportedly shrunk to less than two hectares. \n\nThe ice sheet is perched within the Sierra Nevada National Park at nearly 5,000 metres above sea level . \n\nMonitoring it has been difficult in recent years due to Venezuela \u2019s tumultuous political situation, with blackouts and gas shortages common and equipment scarce. \n\nBut some hardy scientists have taken it upon themselves to maintain data records and monitor how temperatures and plant life are changing in the region. \n\n\u201cThe p\u00e1ramos [zone between 3,000 and 4,500 metres of elevation in the Andes] are heating up, climate change is real and we have to document it,\u201d Alejandra Melfo PhD, physics teacher at University of the Andes, said on a research trip in March 2019. \u201cThe glacier will disappear and we have to be there when it does.\u201d \n\nWhat\u2019s the impact of Venezuela\u2019s lost glaciers? \n\nGlacier loss could have a devastating impact on mountain ecosystems. \n\nOn the rocks left behind as the Humboldt has retreated, scientists think that a new ecosystem resembling the P\u00e1ramos - a mist-covered mountain grassland that lies between the top of the treeline and the bottom of the glacier - may eventually begin to develop. \n\n\u201cTemperatures are rising, and vegetation is slowly colonising,\u201d Luis Daniel Llamb\u00ed, a mountain ecologist at the University of the Andes in M\u00e9rida, said on the 2019 research trip. \n\n\u201cThere's a race going on between global warming and the vegetation's ability to colonise these high areas. So the high areas of M\u00e9rida's mountain range should be number one priority for conservation .\u201d \n\nBetween that visit and his last trip in December 2023, the Humboldt shrunk by half. \n\nSimilar to those used in Austria and Switzerland in recent years, giant thermal blankets were draped over the glacier by the government in late 2023 in a final attempt to save it, but it was too late. \n\nIt is yet to be seen how quickly new soil can form where the ice has melted, and whether plant and animal species will be able to adapt to changing temperatures and potentially having to live at higher elevations. \n\nThough it is a lesser problem in Venezuela, glaciers are also an important source of water in other South American nations. \n\nIndonesia, Mexico and Slovenia could be the next countries to lose their final glaciers, climatologist and weather historian Maximiliano Herrera told The Guardian. \n\n","htmlText":" Venezuela has lost its last glacier, making it the first nation in modern history to hold this unenviable record.<\/p>\n At least five other glaciers have disappeared in the South American country within the last century as climate change drives up temperatures in the Andes. The country lost 98 per cent of its glacial area between 1952 and 2019, research<\/strong><\/a> shows.<\/p>\n As of 2011, the Humboldt - also known as La Corona - stood as Venezuela\u2019s last remaining glacier. It has now shrunk so much that climate scientists have reclassified it as an ice field, UK newspaper The Guardian reports.<\/p>\n Glaciers<\/strong><\/a> are thick masses of frozen ice that move slowly downhill under their own weight, eroding the surrounding land. They are formed when snow gets compacted into ice over many centuries.<\/p>\n Most of the planet's ice is stored in the polar regions, but there are glaciers<\/strong><\/a> in some mountainous regions of the tropics - primarily in South America.<\/p>\n The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), a network of experts and researchers, tweeted this week that the Humboldt has become \u201ctoo small to be classed as a glacier.\u201d<\/p>\n #Venezuela<\/a> has officially lost its last glacier after La Corona glacier on Humboldt peak, 4,900 meters above sea level, became too small to be classed as a #glacier<\/a>. What does an early Christmas really mean?<\/h2>
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This makes Venezuela the first country in the Andes mountain range to lose all its glaciers. https:\/\/t.co\/BJyqouUjMY<\/a><\/p>— International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (@ICCInet) May 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>