Venezuelan opposition leader rallies support in Panama ahead of Maduro inauguration

Self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González is rallying regional support for the opposition's claims that he won the July election against President Nicolás Maduro. Days before Venezuela's presidential inauguration, González met Wednesday with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino, and presented him a photo of electoral documents that the opposition say are evidence disproving Maduro’s claim to victory. Also on Wednesday, Colombia's leftist president and Maduro ally Gustavo Petro said he would not attend the inauguration citing the arrest of a prominent human rights activist.