From tearing down posters of Maduro's presidential campaign to tumbling down statues of Chávez, protesters unloaded their frustration throughout the day

The Venezuelan president also said the mogul wants to "control the world"

The information contained in the polling station-level results forms as transmitted to the CNE is critical to our assessment, the NGO said

About 7.7 million Venezuelans have already left the country over the past years. That number may increase with the election results

The tycoon openly supported a government change in the country: "It is time for the people of Venezuela to have the chance for a better future"

From members of the Comando con Venezuela coalition to ex-presidential hopeful Leopoldo López, indignation came flooding in after the announcement

After being proclaimed winner of Sunday's elections in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro gave a long speech in which he remembered Hugo Chávez, promised peace, asked for international respect for the results, and claimed there was a hack of the electoral system, which delayed the vote counting process.

In a strongly-worded statement released by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil on social media, the Maduro regime claimed there is "an intervention operation against the electoral process"

Edison Research revealed an exit poll that projects Edmundo González Urrutia will defeat Nicolás Maduro in a landslide win

The latest electoral register includes 69,000 who'll be able to vote for the presidential elections outside of the country

During a nationally televised intervention, Maduro constantly recalled his predecessor while presenting his "Plan of the Future"

From a convoy of ex-Latin American presidents halted in Panama to a group of Spanish senators who were banned at Venezuelan customs

The refugee agency UNHCR estimates that more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left since 2014

Edmundo González Urrutia also said that he trusts the country's military will respect Sunday's election results

"Any political repression and violence is unacceptable" said White House spokesperson John Kirby

"There's a clear intention to generate informational obscurantism," Tinedo Guía said in an interview with the Latin Times

President Mulino said that "practically all of Venezuela is walking through there every day"

Venezuela is consistently ranked as one of the world's most dangerous countries, though the nation of 30 million people is no longer seen as the cut-throat society it once was.

Maduro is seeking a third six-year term with the opposition polling far in the lead despite what is being seen as a campaign of intimidation and persecution.

The measure comes as a way to prevent potential conflict from spilling over into the neighboring country, as the opposition has an actual shot at winning

Incumbent Nicolas Maduro, seeking a third six-year term, has offered to repair schools and clinics, as well as build houses in the dozens of towns and villages he has campaigned in.

The group includes former Mexican president Vicente Fox

The president used his Argentine counterpart as a model of what direction the country could go on if he loses Sunday's elections

Maduro, seeking a third six-year term at the helm of the economically devastated country, lags far behind challenger Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia in stated voter intentions, but is counting on a loyal electoral machinery.

María Corina Machado's party announced that government officials forcibly entered Milciades Ávila's residence. Such events have increased as the elections near

Maduro said the Colombian artist sent him a political track so good that he should be called 'Nico G'

Maduro's Attorney General promised to look into "new assassination threats against president Nicolas Maduro"

Legal aid organization Foro Penal reported that there have been around 15,700 politically motivated arbitrary arrests in Venezuela during the past decade

Joined by Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, the lawmakers denounce that "Maduro is trying to lie, cheat and steal his way to staying in power"

The opposition leader told the press that two of them were detained Monday near her campaign headquarters in Caracas.