Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28th. That same night the national election authority said that President Nicolás Maduro had won with 51 percent of the vote, a result immediately challenged by the Venezuelan opposition. Most Latin American and international leaders expressed skepticism or called for Maduro to release the results that should be available from the Venezuelan election system. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on August 1st that Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won the most votes and the U.S. recognized him as the winner. The disputed election led to deadly protests that Maduro and his allies denounced as an attempted coup and major government figures said Gonzalez and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado should be held responsible for the anti-government protests. Now, a month and a half later, the opposition candidate Gonzalez Urrutia has sought asylum in Spain and Maria Corina Machado is in hiding, popping up periodically to denounce Maduro who has yet to release results. Almost all U.S.-based mainstream media, the U.S. government and its allies have bought the facile stories told by the Venezuelan opposition just as they bought the “presidency” of the opposition’s Juan Guaidó in 2019. But is there another side to the story? What’s really happening in Venezuela? Miguel Tinker Salas, Professor Emeritus at Pomona College and recognized expert on Latin American political and social issues, recently returned from Venezuela. He talks with Norman Stockwell, Publisher of the Progressive Magazine and Marc Becker, Latin American Historian at Missouri’s Truman State University about what he saw and heard and thought while he was there and what might happen next.