Brazil and Colombia have suggested Venezuela hold fresh presidential elections in order to end the crisis sparked after Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner without providing evidence from the polls.
The authoritarian socialist’s claim to have won re-election, which has not been recognised by the US, EU and most Latin American nations, was followed by a deadly crackdown on protesters in the days after the vote.
However, the proposal to rerun the ballot was rebuffed by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. The opposition claims its candidate, Edmundo González, was the winner by a margin of more than two-to-one, and has published thousands of voting receipts online.