Colombia, Brazil and Mexico discuss 'options' to 'support' Venezuelans

The governments of Colombia, Brazil and Mexico met to discuss the disputed elections in Venezuela and worked on "options to provide international support" to the people and ensure a "definitive solution to the current controversies".

They called for an "impartial verification" of the results of Venezuela's presidential election. Venezuela's electoral council proclaimed Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, the winner of the July 28 election with 51% of the vote.

But the country's opposition says its tally of about 90% of the votes shows its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez received more than double the support of the incumbent president, in line with independent polling conducted before the contest.The opposition has released detailed tallies on a public website, but the government has so far not shared any information beyond a national total of votes for each candidate.