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Diplomats push for progress in resolving disputed elections in Venezuela

CARACAS: Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are pushing for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to meet with the opposition candidate in last week’s disputed election, a diplomatic source told Reuters on Friday, as a growing number of Western governments reject Maduro’s claim to victory. . The trio of leftist Latin American countries want Maduro and Edmundo Gonzalez to meet without popular opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who spearheaded Gonzalez’s campaign after being banned from taking office, the source said. Venezuela’s electoral authority, seen by critics as favoring the ruling socialists, declared Maduro the winner in last Sunday’s vote, saying on Monday that