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Explainer: What is happening with Venezuela's contested election?
The country's electoral authority (CNE) said just after midnight on Monday that Maduro had won a third six-year term with 51% of the vote. The authority said Gonzalez won 44%, but opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said opposition candidate …