CARACAS, Venezuela—President Nicolás Maduro’s government said more than eight million people had voted Sunday to give his administration overwhelming powers to redraft the constitution, an outcome that opposition leaders called fraudulent and that the Trump administration said it wouldn’t recognize. The results were announced on state television by Tibisay Lucena, head of the National Electoral Council, near midnight on Sunday, timing that minimized unrest in a country that has been whipsawed by antigovernment...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 31, 2017 05:15 UTC