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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has condemned Washington’s recognition of the opposition candidate Edmundo González as the winner of the disputed presidential election. “The United States should not stick its nose into our affairs, because in Venezuela the sovereign people decide,” the authoritarian leader said on Friday. “Is the USA perhaps the electoral office? The fascist demon is the electoral office?” Venezuela’s electoral authority, which is loyal to the government, declared Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, the winner of Sunday’s election. However, it has not yet published t…

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