Venezuelans Protest Election Results

Venezuelans across Latin America took to the streets to protest and demand transparency and justice in their home country's recent election results.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital, demonstrators gathered at the Obelisk Monument, waving flags and singing the national anthem.

In Mexico City, protesters rally at Simon Bolivar's monument to protest against the election of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

The Venezuelan community in Bogota, Colombia's capital, protested at Simon Bolivar Square chanting slogans and calling for international intervention to safeguard democracy in Venezuela.

Meanwhile, in Peru, attendees prayed and said they were defending their votes outside the Venezuelan embassy in Lima.

Protests have erupted across Venezuela after electoral authorities declared that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro had won a third term in office with 51% of the vote, extending the Chavista movement's quarter-century rule.

But the country's opposition says its tally of about 90% of the votes shows its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez received more than double the support of the incumbent president.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado emerged from hiding to join her supporters protesting in the streets of Caracas against contested national election results, as thousands marched all across the South American country.

Supporters were happy to see Machado in the streets after the leader said in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that she was in hiding and feared for her life.

In addition to Caracas, demonstrations took place in cities including Valencia, Maracaibo and San Cristobal.

Marches backing Maduro were expected to begin later, yet some of his supporters were already on the streets.

The published election result sparked widespread allegations of fraud and protests. Subsequently security forces cracked down on protests which Maduro's government labeled part of an attempted U.S.-backed coup.