Less than a month after Venezuela’s contested — and much disputed — election, a growing number of world leaders have voiced doubts on whether that country’s Marxist president, Nicolas Maduro, was the winner.
Argentina’s conservative president, Javier Milei, and Chile’s leftist president, Gabriel Boric, are among those refusing to recognize Maduro and his administration as the legitimate government of Venezuela.
But the recognition Tuesday of Maduro by one government and its leader was highly significant to the embattled strongman: that of the Vatican and its head of state, Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the world’s estimated 1.39 billion Roman Catholics.
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