Caracas, Venezuela

Maduro is angry: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro lashed out this week against foreign leaders who support a recount of the close vote that put him in office last month. On state television, he called President Obama the “chief of devils” for suggesting that the election campaign—which allowed nearly unlimited TV time for Maduro and almost none for his rival, Henrique Capriles—may not have been entirely fair. He recalled his ambassador from Peru after Peru asked the Union of South American Nations to issue a resolution calling on Maduro to exercise tolerance. And he has accused Álvaro Uribe, an ex-president of Colombia, of conspiring with the Venezuelan opposition to kill him.

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