The Venezuelan Election
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela announced that President Nicolás Maduro had won Venezuela's presidential election, defeating challenger Edmundo González by a total of 51% to 44%. The results were immediately contested, with leaders from a coalition of opposition parties claiming that vote tallies they received showed González up by 40 points. Protests over the results of the election broke out in cities across Venezuela, with police deploying tear gas to control a crowd in Caracas, the nation’s capital.
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| 1:00.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, This is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle |
| 1:24.3 | podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Venezuelan elections. |
| 1:36.0 | What is happening in Venezuela? A lot of people have written in asking us what's going on. |
| 1:41.3 | We're going to do our best to break that story down. |
| 1:43.6 | We're going to share some |
| 1:44.5 | views from the left and the right here in the U.S. And then from some opinion writers in Venezuela, |
| 1:49.4 | which is always fun. We translated some articles from Spanish to English for inclusion in |
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