AQ Slideshow: Venezuelans Cast Their Vote

In the early morning of April 14, Venezuelan voters went to the polls to decide whether Nicolás Maduro or Henrique Capriles Radonski would become the country's next president. Voter participation started slowly in several neighborhoods in eastern Caracas, but eventually, more than 78 percent of Venezuela's registered voters cast their ballots. With 99 percent of votes counted, Venezuela's Consejo Nacional Electoral (National Electoral Council—CNE) declared Maduro the winner by a margin of 1.6 percentage points (50.7 percent versus 49.1 percent of votes cast). This was the...

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