The Americas | Venezuela’s election

The mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power

Behind-the-scenes negotiations seek to ease him out of office

Members of the Venezuelan police patrol the streets of the Venezuelan capital.
Photograph: Alamy
|BOGOTÁ, CARACAS AND SÃO PAULO

For a man who supposedly won an election, Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, looks worried. The gaudy tracksuit he sported during much of the campaign has been swapped for a solemn business suit. He seems irritable and exhausted in his repeated television rants, in which he rails against “fascist” enemies. Days after a rigged election, it remains unclear whether he can remain in power.

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