CARACAS, Venezuela—As Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro announced a new six-year term on Sunday, his main rivals and many Venezuelans disavowed the election, alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship.
Victory for the 55-year-old former bus driver, who replaced Hugo Chavez after his death from cancer in 2013, may trigger a new round of sanctions against the socialist government as it grapples with a ruinous economic crisis.
