Venezuela Opposition Claims to Have Proof of Victory in Disputed Election Results

Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on July 29 that his coalition has enough evidence to prove that he defeated incumbent President Nicolas Maduro in the country’s disputed presidential election. His remarks came as thousands of Venezuelan people took to the streets to protest the election results announced by the country’s electoral authority, which declared Mr. Maduro the winner with 51 percent of the vote and stated that Mr. Gonzalez received 44 percent. “We have in our hands the records that demonstrate our historic, categorical, and mathematically irreversible triumph,” Mr. Gonzalez said at a press conference alongside opposition leader Maria Corina Machado....