AP had competitive and exclusive coverage of the Venezuelan election and the post-electoral crisis

By Regina Garcia Cano, Jorge Rueda, Fabiola Sánchez, Joshua Goodman, Juan Pablo Arráez, Lucas Dumphreys, Andry Rincón, Matías Delacroix, Fernando Vergara, Cristian Hernández, Angeliki Kastanis, Chris Keller, Nicholas Forster, Larry Fenn, Kasturi Pananjady, Kavish Harjai and Aaron Kessler

A team of staffers and stringers tirelessly covered every aspect of the presidential election Venezuela, from the voting to the protests, proclamations, disputes, and reactions inside and outside the country. Within hours of Venezuelan electoral authorities declaring President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the election and as thousands of people demonstrated across the country, opposition candidate Edmundo González announced that his campaign had the proof it needs to show he won. 

In addition to explanatory pieces and appealing visual covering a daily basis from the AP team, correspondent Regina García Cano was able to answer the question of how the opposition was able to secure most of the tally sheets, considered the ultimate proof of election results, in a piece detailing how it took months of preparations and the participation of thousands of volunteers in a herculean task. The data team was able to review almost 24,000 vote tally sheets released by Venezuela’s opposition indicating that their candidate won significantly more votes in the presidential election than the government has claimed.

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