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Machado says Trump opened 'floodgate to freedom' for Venezuela

Machado said the deal lacks transparency and urged a 2027 vote as she returned from 10 months in exile.

  • On Thursday, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado thanked President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for opening a 'floodgate to freedom' through the January 3 operation that detained President Nicolas Maduro.
  • Rubio's transition plan includes presidential elections in 2027, which Machado called 'irreversible.' She returned to Caracas to 'mobilize society' and advance democratic change.
  • Criticizing a major oil deal, Machado claimed Venezuela would supply 20 percent of its reserves to the United States. She said the agreement lacked necessary transparency that 'Venezuelan society wants.'
  • Interim President Delcy Rodriguez announced shortly before the press conference that 'there will be elections' in Venezuela 'with the world as witness,' though no date was specified.
  • After spending 10 months in exile to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, Machado returned to Caracas. Her presence challenges the interim government to define a clear electoral calendar.
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Maria Corina Machado returned to Venezuela after 319 days and shook the board. Trump said he didn’t know anything, Washington did damage control and the Chavism of the Rodriguez responded by decreeing Christmas. Who really leads the transition? And in the meantime, why does Colombia shut up? The post María Corina returned, Trump didn’t know and Chavismo decreed Christmas and prepared the Delcy appeared first on La Silla Empty campaign.

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The Nobel Peace Prize winner has returned to Venezuela after about ten months in exile. She now wants to lead her country to democracy. Elections are due to take place next year.

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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Thursday that the transition in the South American country is irreversibly moving towards presidential elections in 2027, while denying a rapprochement with President-in-Charge Delcy Rodríguez.

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Last June, Delcy Rodríguez visited the ashram of Prasanthi Nilayam founded by Sathya Sai Baba in southern India. Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores were devoted followers of the guru who died in 2011. They even built him a temple in Galipán, one of the tourist attractions on the northern slope of Mount El Ávila. In their prayers in the temple, the "president in charge" only remembered their devotional affinities with the deposed head of state. Alth…

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Telemundo McAllen (40) broke the news on Thursday, October 29, 2026.
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