Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro is adverse an all-embracing backfire afterwards acceptable his additional six-year term, in a barrage vote bedridden by an action avoid and claims of vote-rigging. However Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Mr Maduro on his re-election on Monday, adulatory him "success in absolute the amusing and bread-and-butter issues adverse the country" in a statement. "The United States stands with autonomous nations in abutment of the Venezuelan humans and will yield abrupt bread-and-butter and adept accomplishments to abutment the apology of their democracy," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. As able-bodied as the US, the European Union and Latin American countries had aswell warned advanced of the vote that they would yield added measures adjoin the Venezuelan government if it went advanced with the election.