Maduro’s inauguration seals an election outcome that opposition politicians and the US government say was stolen.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been sworn in to serve a third term despite plentiful credible evidence that his opponent won the election.

Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia said Friday that he is near to his country and "ready for safe entry," while accusing Nicolás Maduro of completing a "coup d'état" as he was sworn in by the National Assembly.