The opposition could never unite behind a single candidate, and parties boycotted the 2018 election because of accusations that free and fair elections were not possible under Maduro’s government.

Economic sanctions from the U.S. seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 reelection — which the U.S. and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate — only deepened the crisis.

Maduro has a habit for clinging to power, they point out: his government has long been accused of rigging votes and the 2018 election that returned Maduro to office was described as illegitimate ...

Economic sanctions from the U.S. seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 reelection - which the U.S. and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate - only deepened the crisis.

On Sunday, Venezuelans will choose a leader in an election that Maduro pledged would be free and fair. ... and claimed reelection in a 2018 vote that was widely decried as fraudulent.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday that the US has found no evidence that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro received the most votes in last month’s presidential election and ...

Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela’s opposition show. Edmundo González likely beat President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 election by millions of votes, a review of data ...

Did Nicolás Maduro Just Steal Another Election? ... In 2018, then–U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed Venezuela's vote as a "sham" due to multiple irregularities.

The United States has tried for years to oust Mr. Maduro, calling his re-election in 2018 a sham, imposing harsh sanctions on the country's oil industry and, along with dozens of other countries ...

That agreement led the United States to temporarily ease sanctions imposed after Maduro’s 2018 re-election, which was rejected as a sham by dozens of Western and Latin American countries.

Venezuela is holding a presidential election on Sunday that could bring dramatic change to the nation, if the opposition candidate can really knock out longtime President Nicolás Maduro.