Venezuelans rejected Maduro’s claim that he won reelection on Sunday, a result contradicted by independent exit polling and, the opposition says, the government’s own voting records.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Opposition leaders called on Venezuelans to assemble in Caracas on Tuesday to demand that President Nicolás Maduro accept what they said was a decisive victory by challenger Edmundo González in the country’s presidential election.
The authoritarian socialist warned that he would respond with force, and his defense minister pledged the armed forces’ “most absolute loyalty” to him. On Tuesday morning, masked men in black forced opposition leader Freddy Superlano and two members of his team into a vehicle in Caracas and drove them away.
Police responded with tear gas and some gunfire. At least 132 people were arrested and six killed nationwide, the rights group Foro Penal reported. The apparently spontaneous demonstrations appeared to stand apart from the several waves of civil unrest aimed at the Venezuelan government over the years in that many were led by people from working-class neighborhoods that historically have been strongholds of support for Chavez, Maduro and their movement, called chavismo.“The whole mountain is coming down. Nobody wants it anymore,” said Deivis Limis, 40.
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