US Calls for Venezuela to Release Voting Records After Chavez Claims Victory

The United States has called on Venezuela to release data from its July 28 election. The Biden administration called for the National Electoral Council to publish a tabulation of the votes from the precincts. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council declared incumbent President Nicolás Maduro the winner with 51 percent of the vote and the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González, with 44 percent. “If there is resistance to providing that additional information, then I think that becomes highly problematic when it comes to the ability of the United States or other members of the international community to judge whether these elections were in fact inclusive and credible,” an administration official told reporters on July 29....