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Venezuela's chief state prosecutor said on Wednesday her office obtained warrants to arrest three hardline opposition activists for failing to appear to testify in an investigation into an alleged plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro. Prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Diego Arria, an ardent critic of the government who ran in the 2012 opposition presidential primaries, and two other opposition activists for not appearing as ordered by a court summons. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who Socialist Party leaders accused of being the primary organizer of the alleged plot, has been called in to testify on June 16. Via Twitter, Machado scoffed at the Socialist Party's accusations, calling them "infamy." Maduro, like his predecessor Hugo Chavez, has repeatedly denounced opposition plots to kill him or stage a coup.
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