The Latest Breaking News from Edmundo González

Maduro told troops he is ‘willing to do anything’ to protect his ‘revolution’ amid growing criticism of crackdown on opposition

Voices across the globe are expressing concern over the growing number of arrests in Venezuela following last weekend's disputed elections

Maduro has launched crackdown against opposition following election

Violence escalates in Venezuela post-election as opposition leader's headquarters is attacked. Biden administration supports opposition, while Maduro remai...

Masked men ransacked the headquarters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado overnight as Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro threatened to arrest her. The United States, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay on Friday recognized Maduro challenger Edmundo González, a Machado ally, as the winner of the disputed presidential vote.

Building on widespread sentiment and the incumbent Nicolás Maduro's refusal to provide transparent voting data, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said it "is clear" that opposition candidate Edmundo González won Sunday's Venezuelan presidential election, despite Maduro claiming he had secured 90% of the votes.

"Now it is up to the international community to decide whether to tolerate a demonstrably illegitimate government" she wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed

Following widespread calls from global leaders to verify the results of Sunday's presidential election, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro tasked the country's top court with auditing the election. Initial results showed Maduro winning another term, but many expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the elections and the court's ability to be…

Post-election protests are far from uncommon in Venezuela. In 2018, people took to the streets to contest President Nicolás Maduro’s reelection; they did so again in 2019 when the Venezuelan opposition proclaimed National Assembly representative Juan Guaidó as interim president in defiance of a vote they said was rigged.