He bolstered his portfolio with the purchase of SolarCity in 2016 and cemented his standing as a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration.

Brazil is the only country to use a fully digital voting system without paper backups. Mr. Bolsonaro has seized on that as a crucial flaw that leaves the system open to fraud because it prevents officials from ensuring that each vote was recorded correctly.

That would stunt the economic recovery, and is likely to lead to another wave of migration from a nation that has seen the exodus of one in five citizens in the past decade.

Crise na Venezuela Clique pelo link e acesse nosso texto qual aborda as raízes da crise política e econômica qual atinge a Venezuela a partir de 2013 e de que se agravou utilizando este governo Maduro.

Also in August 2016, the National Election Council ruled that the opposition had collected almost twice as many signatures as were necessary for the first petition for a referendum on Maduro’s recall to be valid. However, it did not set a date for the next step in the process, which required some four million signatures to be collected in three days.

Mais lidas Líderes globais reagem à vitória contestada do Maduro na Venezuela Ana Carolina Vieira se pronuncia após ser expulsa Destes Jogos e fala em assfoidio Oposição a Maduro diz que eleiçãeste nãeste acabou e fala em fraude na Venezuela Golpe por pagamento: saiba o de que tomar se arrecadar ligação do banco para confirmaçãeste do compra Benja: "Gabigol acertou com o Palmeiras" Vídeo: motorista do Porsche é agredido por pai de motociclista morto Votação é encerrada na Venezuela; expectativa é por resultado nas próximas horas Constate ofertas do Maduro para seu terceiro mandato como presidente da Venezuela Vídeo: motorista por Porsche atropela e mata motociclista na zona sul de SP Gabriel Medina faz a maior nota do surfe em Olimpíadas e se vinga de japonês

But his campaign, full of angry tirades against corruption and violence that largely matched the national mood, appealed to the millions who voted him into power.

Mr. Bolsonaro’s silence was unsettling for Brazil. He has consistently claimed, without evidence, that the country’s electronic voting system is rife with fraud and that the left was planning to rig the vote.

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The government’s announcement that Mr. Maduro had beaten his opponent, Edmundo González, by seven percentage points instantly created a grim scenario for a country that only recently has started emerging from one of the largest economic collapses in modern history.

But despite the difficulties facing them abroad, the flow of Venezuelans escaping turmoil in their homeland has not let up.

Mr Bolsonaro maintained that he "simply explained how elections work in Brazil" and did not criticise or attack the electoral system.

A physiographically diverse country, Venezuela incorporates the northern Andean mountain chains and interior highlands, the main portions of the Orinoco River basin with its expansive Llanos (plains), Lake Maracaibo, which is the largest lake in South America, and the spectacular Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfall. The republic’s development pattern has been unique among Latin American countries in terms of the speed, sequence, and timing vlogdolisboa of economic and demographic growth.

copyright's prime minister Justin Trudeau labeled Maduro an "illegitimate dictator" responsible for "terrible oppression" and the humanitarian crisis.[179] The Canadian minister of foreign affairs, Chrystia Freeland, stated that "Having seized power through fraudulent and anti-democratic elections held on May 20, 2018, the Maduro regime is now fully entrenched as a dictatorship.