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How Venezuela’s presidential elections descended into violence. What comes next
In the faraway lands of Venezuela, there was an eerie calm on Sunday as votes were being tallied after the presidential election. That calm was shattered as sounds of spoons clattering against crockery rang out in the capital of Caracas and other cities …