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Venezuela set for new protests after Maduro win ratified

Demonstrators protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's questioned presidential victory in front of UN headquarters in New York, on August 2, 2024. [AFP]

Venezuela braced for fresh protests Saturday after President Nicolas Maduro's disputed election victory was ratified and a growing number of nations recognized his opposition rival as the true winner.

Both Maduro and the opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado and her presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, have called on their supporters to demonstrate this weekend, in the wake of Sunday's controversial vote.

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