Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile
- After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela on Sunday, entering a political landscape reshaped by the United States without her involvement.
- Machado attempted to re-enter Venezuela seven times over previous months without success, including failed efforts in June during earthquake relief and three denials in September while acting President Delcy Rodríguez attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
- Following President Nicolás Maduro's January ousting, the United States began steering Venezuela toward democratic transition through the acting government, though the process excluded Machado and opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.
- In late August, President Donald Trump announced a U.S. agreement to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves, which Machado questioned in a video statement as signed by an illegitimate regime.
- Trump claimed Machado 'does not have the support or the respect within the country' to lead, while the acting government has yet to announce a date for elections promised at the General Assembly.
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About ten months after her secret departure from Venezuela, Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado has returned to her home country. "I'm here. With you, Machado announced on platform X.
After almost a year of exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado announced that she had returned to Venezuela "I am here. With you," wrote the opponent,
María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months abroad and seven failed attempts
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela on Sunday after nearly ten months abroad and at least seven failed attempts to go back. “I am here. With you,” she wrote on X, shortly before reappearing at a Mass at the Divina Pastora sanctuary in Barquisimeto, Lara state, surrounded by supporters.
María Corina Machado made known her return to Venezuela through a brief publication on social networks; she appeared in the sanctuary of the Divine Shepherd in Barquisimeto.
The leader of the Venezuelan opposition announced her return to the country, which she had left in December 2025 to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She had since been exiled to PanamaThe leader of the Venezuelan opposition and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, announced that she was back in Venezuela on Sunday, after almost a year of exile. "I am here. With you," wrote the opponent in a message on social network X. Her ally and form…
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