In the hours after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro declared his re-election victory on July 29, there was a sense of vulnerability in the air.
Clouds of tear gas rose from multiple points across the Caracas skyline, as thousands of protesters clashed with security forces. Opposition supporters denounced a rigged result, tore down statues of Maduro’s predecessor Hugo Chávez and trampled election posters of the president in towns and cities across the country.
For the first time in 25 years of revolutionary socialist government, poorer neighbourhoods joined the protests en masse. Opposition leader María Corina Machado declared: “This is not the end, but it is the beginning of the end.”
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