Venezuelan opposition leader María Machado returns after months in exile
Machado says no election date has been set as she returns after nearly a year in exile and renews calls for a democratic vote.
- 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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She had secretly left Venezuela at the end of 2025 to travel to Norway, where she had received the Nobel Peace Prize 2025
The figure of opposition to President Maduro had left the territory in December 2025 to join Oslo after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded. She announced her return to social network X this Sunday.
Nearly a year after her departure, Maria Corina Machado, a leading figure in the Venezuelan opposition, announced her return to the country in an online statement today. Machado, who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, posted the message “I am here, with you” in the early hours of Sunday. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his support for Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president, and has …
'I am here. With you,' Machado says as her team thanks Trump, Rubio
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IOL PortugalOpposition leader Maria Corina Machado returns to Venezuela
The Nobel Peace Prize recipient's decision comes after US forces captured long-time president Nicolás Maduro in January this year, with the Trump administration leading efforts to open up the country's oil reserves.
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