Venezuela named opposition leader María Corina Machado as a key suspect in its investigation of alleged electoral sabotage in Sunday’s presidential vote, escalating tensions while the result is still under dispute.
President Nicolás Maduro, who was quickly certified as the vote’s winner despite wide skepticism from the international community, said in a televised address Monday that his government was working to fend off what it sees as an attempted coup.
Machado was involved in a plot to alter voting results sent from polling places to electoral authority headquarters, Public Prosecutor Tarek William Saab alleged before Maduro spoke.
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