Venezuela's Maduro Wins Boycotted Elections Amid Charges Of Fraud
NPR's Philip Reeves, reporting from Caracas, says many voting stations around the capital were nearly empty despite the government's claim of a nearly 50 percent turnout.
Venezuela's leftist President Nicholas Maduro has easily won a second term, but his main rivals have refused to accept the results, calling the polling fraudulent â a view shared by the United States and many independent observers.
Venezuela's National Election Council, run by Maduro loyalists,
