Polls have opened in Venezuela, where people are voting in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse
Lima: Peru's government ordered Venezuelan diplomats in the Andean nation to leave within 72 hours, after Venezuela's electoral authority declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of Sunday's election.
Incomplete and hotly disputed results released Sunday showed that Maduro attracted 51.2% of the vote, seven points ahead of main opposition candidate Edmundo González.
The council’s results widely contradicted exit polling of voters that showed González winning by a large margin.