Crisis in Venezuela: Tension Grows Due to Protests and Threats of Repression from Maduro Regime

Summary

• Opposition led by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia called for demonstrations in response to controversial vote in Venezuela
• Maduro ordered a deployment of security forces against protesters
• International countries recognizing González Urrutia as the true president-elect
• Reports of abuses and deaths at the hands of Chavista forces, including recent victim Carmen Rodríguez