The outcome of the polls will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse.
“The Venezuelans and the entire world know what happened,” opposition candidate Edmundo González said in his first remarks.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said the margin of González’s victory was “overwhelming” based on voting tallies it had received from campaign representatives from about 40% of ballot boxes nationwide.