With his challengers scattered and reeling, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is set to be sworn in for a third six-year term on Friday, shrugging off international condemnation of a sham election and a brutal crackdown on dissent.

Maduro, 62, was declared without evidence to be the winner of last July’s vote by an electoral authority stocked with his appointees. He will take the presidential oath in Caracas in the absence of once-close allies such as Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, highlighting just how isolated the strongman has become in the dark aftermath of the election.