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Venezuelan opposition candidate accuses Nicolás Maduro of coup

Venezuelan opposition candidate accuses Nicolás Maduro of coup

Edmundo González, widely believed to have won July election, gives address after autocrat sworn in for third term

The man widely believed to be the real victor of last year’s presidential election in Venezuela has accused Nicolás Maduro of staging a coup and “crowning himself dictator” after the South American autocrat claimed another six years in power.

Maduro, a former union leader who has governed since 2013, in increasingly authoritarian fashion, was sworn in for a third term on Friday, despite claims that he stole the election from the actual winner, the retired diplomat Edmundo González.

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