Venezuela bishops demand government come clean about election results

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Amid widspread claims of fraud surrounding elections in July that supposedly ended in the narrow reelection of President Nicolas Maduro, the country’s Catholic bishops are calling for release of all details regarding the results.

Full disclosure, the bishops said during an Oct. 15-17 extraordinary assembly in Caracas, is the only way “to build a democratic and peaceful Venezuela.”

Heading into the July ballotting, many Venezuelans were hopeful that...