Nor did the European Union, which on Thursday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lost an election July 28, but remained in office while the winner, Edmundo Gonzalez, took asylum in Spain. Autocrats and their backers always seem to do well.

The Venezuelan opposition has said those results would show that Maduro was handily defeated by Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled to Spain in September after a warrant was issued for his arrest ...