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CARACAS (AFP) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, whose 2018 re-election was rejected by a vast swathe of the international community as fraudulent, said on Saturday that he does not care about the global response to a vote scheduled for next year. “We don’t care what imperialism thinks, or what the oligarchies think, about the political, social, institutional, cultural and economic life of Venezuela,” he said in an interview broadcast on state television. “We don’t care whether they say something or not, whether they recognise it or not,” he added. “We never cared that they said: ‘No, the president of Venezuela is Guaido’. The opposition is seeking certain assurances, including opposition leaders barred from holding public office will be allowed to run.