Nicolas Maduro to be Sworn in as Venezuela President

Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in as Venezuela’s president at a ceremony to be attended by several Latin American leaders, after a decision to widen an electronic audit of the vote took some of the heat out of a dispute over his election.

Maduro, a former bus driver-turned-foreign minister who was the late Hugo Chavez’s chosen successor, narrowly beat opposition challenger Henrique Capriles in Sunday’s vote.

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