Maduro bows to pressure for judicial audit of election results as Argentina's Milei encourages protests

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has bowed to pressure from protesters and neighboring countries alike and called for an audit of the recent presidential election while continuing to verbally spar with rival leaders such as Argentina's Javier Milei.

"The fraud carried out and perpetrated by the dictator Nicolás Maduro is nothing less than a Pyrrhic victory," Milei said in a video posted on TikTok, according to a translation by The Wall Street Journal. "He may believe he has won a battle. However, the most important thing is that the Venezuelan lions have awakened, and sooner or later socialism will come to an end." ---More...