FILE - A child holds a “Super Bigote” action figure doll modeled after President Nicolas Maduro, a Christmas gifts delivered by government officials, in the Carayaca neighborhood of La Guaira, Venezuela, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas, File)
FILE - A child holds a “Super Bigote” action figure doll modeled after President Nicolas Maduro, a Christmas gifts delivered by government officials, in the Carayaca neighborhood of La Guaira, Venezuela, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas, File)
FILE - A child holds a “Super Bigote” action figure doll modeled after President Nicolas Maduro, a Christmas gifts delivered by government officials, in the Carayaca neighborhood of La Guaira, Venezuela, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Jesus Vargas, File)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The world’s attention on Venezuela has been focused in the last weeks on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the ensuing persecution of critics and the arrest warrant against the former opposition presidential candidate.