President Maduro was inaugurated yesterday for a third, six-year term that could keep him in power until 2031. Behind the toy soldiers and sashes, however, the mood in official Caracas is one of nervousness — about the opposition and about President-elect Donald Trump.

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

Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a third presidential term on Friday, despite overwhelming evidence that he lost July’s presidential election to opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez,