Venezuela’s Electoral Council (CNE) announced on Monday that the country’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, has won a third term in office, but the opposition rejected those results saying it had won. Maduro won about 51% of the vote, beating opposition candidate Edmundo González, who secured about 44%, the CNE said. But opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was banned from holding public office for 15 years due to alleged irregularities from her time as a member of parliament, claimed the opposition had secured 70% of the vote. “We won and the whole world knows that,” she told j…