Victory for González

Venezuela's defiant opposition

- ALEX GONZÁLEZ ORMEROD

THE DAY AFTER VENEZUELA'S JULY 28 PRESIDENtial election, the National Electoral Council said that it could not provide the world with the actual results of the vote-yet somehow it "irrevocably" declared the autocratic Nicolás Maduro as the winner, over opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. The opposition was ready. It had gathered 73.2% of the receipts printed by Venezuela's electronic voting machines, and published them on a website launched a day after the vote. By its calculation