Meanwhile, detailed vote receipts, made available by the opposition party from more than 80% of polling stations, show a landslide victory for González, with nearly 7.2 million votes to Maduro ...

One poll by local company Datanalisis, leaked by Wall Street analysts, showed Maduro had received a 10-point bounce from last month to 50.4 percent popularity just before Sunday's vote.

Item 1 of 32 People line up to vote at a polling station during an unofficial plebiscite against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro's government and his plan to rewrite the constitution, in ...

Venezuela’s oil production never fully returned to pre-strike levels of 3.3 million barrels a day. Almost 1 million protesters march in Caracas on Dec. 20, 2002.

The governors' vote gave Maduro a political boost and left the opposition divided and squabbling. It boycotted elections for 335 mayors in December, further fueling abstentionism.

Some opponents and academics say up to 4 million people - from a population of around 30 million - have fled Venezuela since Maduro's predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chavez, won power two decades ago.

The council on Monday reported that Maduro received 5.1 million votes, while Edmundo González, representing the Unitary Platform opposition coalition, earned more than 4.4 million.

She blames Nicolas Maduro, who has ruled Venezuela for the past 11 years, and she would like to give him the boot in the July 28 presidential election. G RODRIGUEZ: (Non-English language spoken).

Venezuela faced a political standstill Monday after both incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s main opposition coalition claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential election.

Maduro, without Chávez’s military pedigree, has nonetheless empowered his own crop of uniformed allies, many of whom, like the president, face allegations of corruption and human rights abuses.

The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, who is a close ally of Mr Maduro, said that with 80% of votes counted, President Maduro had 51.2% of the vote, compared to 44.2% ...

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday formally declared Maduro the winner of the vote. The CNE said Maduro had secured 51 percent support to win another six-year term, compared ...