Protests broke out Monday in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, with a whole lot of younger folks marching by means of the streets livid over a presidential election through which the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro, declared victory regardless of widespread accusations of fraud, formally proclaiming the election determined with out releasing the complete vote counts.

The USA and nations world wide denounced the official outcomes of Sunday’s vote, which didn’t seem to match statistical estimates based mostly on partial counts and different knowledge that confirmed the president shedding by a large margin.

By Monday afternoon, the Venezuelan authorities introduced it had kicked out the diplomatic missions of seven Latin American nations that had condemned the official electoral outcomes.

The opposition chief, María Corina Machado, introduced on Monday night that her motion had acquired paper tallies from 73 p.c of the nation’s voting stations and refuted the federal government’s claims. These tallies confirmed that Mr. Maduro’s opponent, Edmundo González, had acquired 3.5 million extra votes than the president.

Mr. González referred to as the margin “mathematically irreversible.”

The transfer by the electoral authority to declare victory however not launch detailed voting outcomes, which it had routinely achieved in previous elections, intensified the sense amongst many Venezuelans and worldwide observers that the election had basically been stolen.

However Mr. Maduro appeared to dig in, along with his authorities asserting that it was investigating high opposition leaders, accusing them of hacking the electoral laptop techniques.