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From BBC learning English.
This is learning English from the news, our podcast about the news headlines in.
This program, venezuelan election chaos.
Hello, I'm Phil.
And I'm Beth.
In this program, we look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines that will help you understand it.
You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode as well as a worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
So lets hear more about this story.
So were talking about the recent venezuelan elections.
And in these elections, the president, Nicolas Maduro claimed victory, but not everyone agrees with him.
Thats right.
Opposition politicians say that their candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez won 73% of the vote, which is in line with predictions before the election.
And this disagreement has led to protests across the country.
And many countries in the region have expressed doubts about whether the result is correct.
Now I have a headline here that is talking about whats happened since the election.
Its from Al Jazeera.
Protests break out as Maduro declared winner of disputed Venezuela election.
Okay, that headline again, protests break out as Maduro declared winner of disputed Venezuela election.
And that's from Al Jazeera.
Now the headline is talking about what has been happening and we're going to look at the adjective disputed.