evidence: CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday in protests across their country and in cities around the world, demanding that authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro recognize the results of last month’s election they say he lost. [...] That hope, said David Smolansky, an exiled political leader, reverberated through every corner of the world on Saturday as Venezuelans in more than 373 cities went out to protest.