Venezuelan opposition leader thanks US for recognition as protests flare across country

As protests against President Nicolás Maduro flared across the country Saturday, Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia thanked the US for acknowledging his win in last week’s elections. The US joined Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in rejecting the official election results that purportedly had Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, as the winner. “We thank the United States for recognizing the will of the Venezuelan people reflected in our electoral victory and for supporting the process of restoring democratic norms in Venezuela,” González Urrutia wrote on X. González...