The Venezuelan military and police forces on Tuesday reaffirmed their loyalty to the regime of President Nicolás Maduro, days after the country’s electoral authority awarded him victory in a hotly contested vote marred by fraud allegations. A joint statement from the Defence Ministry and Interior Ministry said the country’s security forces have again reaffirmed their “absolute loyalty to the citizen Nicolás Maduro.” The statement came in response to an open letter by opposition leader María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González which called on soldiers and police officers …