Venezuel's Maduro Offers Official Vote Tallies Amid Claims of Fraud
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has offered to give official voting tallies to the nation's highest court as the opposition and countries around the world continue to dispute his win in the presidential election on July 28.
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00:00After a highly contested presidential election, widely considered to be fraudulent, Venezuelan
00:07President Nicolás Maduro says he is willing to give the official vote tallies to the nation's
00:12highest court.
00:30The statement comes as the United States and countries around the world have been demanding
00:34the official voting data for days, rejecting the official result which declared Maduro
00:39the winner.
00:40The international community, the United States included, is running out of patience on waiting
00:45for Venezuelan electoral authorities to come clean and release a full detailed data on
00:52this election so that everyone can see the results.
00:54The UN, the European Union, regional groups and several of Venezuela's Latin American
01:00neighbors have all disputed the official results.
01:03Exit polls and independent analysts say that it was the opposition, led by Maria Corrino
01:08Machado and her candidate Edmundo González, which won the election in a landslide.
01:16Venezuelans who doubt the official result have protested across the country.
01:21Human rights groups say a police crackdown has resulted in more than 1,000 arrests and
01:25as many as 20 deaths.
01:27That includes a 15-year-old boy, Isaias Fuenmayor, whose family says he was just passing by.
01:48In the capital, Caracas, the streets were calm but tense on Wednesday, with many residents
01:53still feeling anxious.
02:03Along with Maduro's willingness to submit official voting data, he's also called for
02:07investigations into what he is calling the opposition's coup attempt.
02:12Given the level of distrust on the streets and around the world, it's unclear if presenting
02:17evidence this late will appease his critics.
02:20Dolphin Chun and Chris Gorin for Taiwan Plus.