Maduro's disputed claim to have won the vote has plunged the South American country into another chapter of unrest and uncertainty.
"I am worried. I am leaving here worried," Celso Amorim, the envoy of Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told the Guardian as he prepared to fly out of Caracas after meeting Maduro the previous day.
On Monday, thousands of residents of poor communities marched through Venezuela's capital in a striking demonstration of the widespread anger sparked by Maduro's claim to have beaten his rival, the ex-diplomat Edmundo González.
Maduro has said he won the election with more than 5.1m votes to his rival's 4.4m. But the opposition insists it won a landslide with 6.2m votes to Maduro's 2.7m.
Yesterday the demonstrators were back after González and his key backer, the opposition leader María Corina Machado, called on followers to continue their protests.
"It's obvious that we won ... We crushed them -70% of the country is against the government," claimed one of those to answer their call, a 35-year-old administrator called Ana Maria González.
Another protester, the human rights activist Leída Brito, 65, shed tears as she spoke of her fury at the alleged fraud. "We want political change and we voted for it... but Nicolás Maduro and the electoral council have robbed us. They have stolen our dreams. They have stolen the dream of our children being able to come back to Venezuela," Brito said of the historic exodus that has seen about 8 million citizens flee abroad, including her children who live in Chile and the Dominican Republic.
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